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4.2K
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Dan Ports
Known for
📊 Post engagement
45
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116903409740977369 Update: my d · 166 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
16.3 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
7.2×
Follows 588 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Miso has called this meeting because he’s disappointed in all of you.
#cats #catsofmastodon
Some days I really miss teaching... and some days I hear from my friends that their students have been asking for extensions because "OpenAI deleted my girlfriend".
When @irene and I went there, her mom warned us that it was really hard to get there -- when she went in the late 80s she had to bike 20 miles and ford a river in the middle -- and under no circumstances should we stay overnight because th…
RE: https://discuss.systems/@irene/117004139607564790
If you look closely at some of these carvings at @irene's family's ancestral home, you'll notice that the faces have been cut off the people (and sometimes the animals) by the Red Guard…
RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116959554075602423
Update: a ukulele has been added to the ensemble.
Under the old food pyramid, this was approximately one recommended daily serving of starches.
The recipe app I use apparently has a parser that knows about land surveying units, because it parsed a recipe saying "2 sections Cuban bread" and now I have 1280 acres of bread on my shopping list.
Also reminded of the time my dad came home from the hospital and excitedly told me that he had just learned about “the LGBLT community”
(this was in the 90s when LGBT was a new term)
surprised no one has written an ending to this unfinished work, or a fanfic, and posted it to AO3 yet
er, I've done several of these *in the last week*.
I’ve noticed they’ve started checking these off. I approve of this development.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
discuss.systems
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 45 views per post.
📤Posts about 16.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research.
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington.
But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes.
I also administer https://discuss.systems/
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