dan solomon

Mastodon @dansolomon@journa.host

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Followers

1.1K

Account age

3 yrs

Known for

ozzy's favorite song is "fetch the bolt cutters" which i know because every time fiona apple's dogs start barking at the end of the song she goes to look for them

4 views ozzy's favorite song is "fetch the bolt cutters" which i know because every time fiona apple's dogs start barking at the end of the song she goes to look for them

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.4%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: all right, I disconnected auto-posting from twitter to mastodon · 12 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

1.3 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 1 image · 1 video.

Follower / following

6.4×

Follows 167 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post all right, I disconnected auto-posting from twitter to mastodon (and back) a few months ago, but then twitter seemed usable again so i just posted there. seems like it’s about to get unusable again now, so hi mastodon, what’s up over here ★ 12

how many years will the cecily strong verizon campaign have to run before they dress up paul giamatti as josef stalin or somebody and then issue a very somber apology ★ 6

nice I dunno, maybe the fact that police describe programs as being intended to keep peace in local communities and then give them names like “SCORPION” ought to be a clue ★ 6 this is an essential guide if you want to understand what really goes on at the texas capitol during the legislative session, how power actually works, and why any idealistic state representative is doomed to either irrelevance or corrupti… ★ 1 do teenagers today know who macklemore was

▶ ozzy's favorite song is "fetch the bolt cutters" which i know because every time fiona apple's dogs start barking at the end of the song she goes to look for them ★ 4 if your dog has a favorite song please tell me what it is and how you can tell anyway, thank you for indulging me now and also for thank you preemptively for indulging me when i do this again and again over the next several months before the book's publication (june 20, 2023) ★ 1 i would really like for this book to find its audience, and right now, the best way i know how to do that is to recommend that you preorder it and/or add it to your goodreads "to-read" shelf (which you can do here: https://www.goodreads.co… ★ 1 more specifically, it's an attempt to address the way men and boys are told not to be concerned with abortion rights, that this fight doesn't concern them (unless they want to legislate it out of existence), and that gets there via what i … ★ 2 anyway it has a lot of other things to recommend it, which i will list here: it is about a young person finding his way after dealing with a friendgroup breakup; it is about politics but with very ground-level stakes; it is, i think, prett… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

journa.host

A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 1.3× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good

Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Established account (3+ years old).

Est. authentic audience

89%

Fake-follower risk

Low

Data confidence

High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

💚 Brand affinity

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Brands dan solomon's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

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About

I'm really a very complicated kind'a guy. senior editor at Texas Monthly. debut YA novel THE FIGHT FOR MIDNIGHT out spring 2023 from Flux Books. (he/him)