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Avg engagement / post
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Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
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🔥 Top post: The new NixOS Foundation Board has been announced https://discou · 24 likes + reposts
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A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
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Follower / following
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@swiftlang/116501584730788938
My favorite part of the latest digest? The two Embedded Swift talks it links to. One of them demos Swift on a Game Boy Advance!
Happy New Year, @swiftlang crew! So happy to be back, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off.
If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: https://www.swift.org/blog/whats-new-in-swift-december-2025/ and let …
Excited about this release for the #swiftlang and Temporal communities.
https://mastodon.social/@swiftlang/115527814718968436
Two weeks until @swiftserverconf at the Science Museum in London! Looking forward to joining in-person and connecting with the community. #swiftlang
Developing Swift on server? Less than two weeks to submit a talk for @swiftserverconf, a conference taking place October 2/3 in London, UK that @0xTim is organizing once again this year! CFP closes July 10, 2025 23:59 UTC. https://www.pape…
Join the @swiftlang server meetup group online in less than an hour. Talks feature embedded Swift and edge AI https://forums.swift.org/t/meetup-swift-server-meetup-5-online-june-23rd/80469 #swiftlang
Sunday morning vibe: Alt-J (2012 tiny desk concert) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdp5uI8AC0
A new prospective #swiftlang vision was just published for accessors. https://github.com/rjmccall/swift-evolution/blob/accessors-vision/visions/accessors.md The relevant forum post is here: https://forums.swift.org/t/prospective-vision-acc…
If you’re interested in delving deeper into the design of recent #swiftlang technical directions, as well as the requirements that are driving their development, I highly recommend exploring the Swift vision documents: https://github.com/s…
Fantastic article in the latest issue of iOS Dev Weekly which features some of the work Luke Howard is doing to develop a hardware project that uses #swiftlang https://iosdevweekly.com/issues/691#article
Discovered 'Repo Lockdown' a while ago — a GitHub Action for automating the closing and locking of Issues/PRs. Useful if you want your source available but aren't accepting community contributions. https://github.com/marketplace/actions/re…
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fosstodon.org
A open-source software server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
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Estimated75/100
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Credibility score
92%
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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.
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Developer tools and open source ecosystems. Product @ Apple. @swiftlang📍 San Francisco
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