David Colborne
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Followers
435
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: If you're testifying before the Legislature and the words "I was · 3 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.55 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.7×
Follows 638 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post If you're testifying before the Legislature and the words "I was probably given incorrect legal advice" pass your lips, you're having a bad day. My latest for @thenevadaindependent https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/opinion-the-law-didnt-say-security-guards-couldnt-carry-… ★ 3
Nevada doesn't charge EV owners any additional registration fees, mileage fees or charging station fees. Now that Nevada ranks sixth in the nation for EV ownership, that's starting to create strain in local and state transportation budgets… Fewer than 7 percent of voters in Nevada's second-largest county voted for its next district attorney. I have thoughts on how that happened — and what we need to do to make sure it doesn't happen again. My latest for @thenevadaindependent … ★ 2 If a Democrat runs as a moderate and nobody reports on their positions, does it matter? It's not like voters are going to notice. My latest for @thenevadaindependent https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/opinion-third-way-offers-no-way… ★ 1 Multiple national outlets reported that nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents may lose power because their energy supplier needs to power data centers instead. Too bad Lake Tahoe's power company, Nevada's power company, and two state public u… The reason some Reno residents are calling for a moratorium is because objecting to data centers is the only way many people have to lash out at the tech industry. Fair enough. But that doesn't make data centers bad, nor does it mean Reno … Nevada's occupational licensing boards spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on professional lobbying services. Republican and Democratic officials in Nevada are taking steps to rein that in. My latest for @thenevadaindependent … ★ 2 What happens when people are anonymously allowed to predict absolutely anything at all for unlimited amounts of money, all from the convenience of their back pocket? Nothing good, in my opinion. My latest for @thenevadaindependent https:/… ★ 2 When it was announced that Nevada's unemployment agency is rolling out an AI tool to process appeals on unemployment benefit decisions, I wasn't surprised many were skeptical. So am I, but not for the reason you might think. My latest for … "The Game Changer" highlights how Reid gained and secured his power not by overturning or meaningfully challenging any of the assumptions of his era, but instead by faithfully working squarely within them. My latest for @thenevadaindepende… ★ 1 A long-standing issue — one that makes fuel prices unnecessarily expensive in Nevada and that Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to solve — is the environmental and economic damage caused by the Jones Act. My latest … Nevadans deserve a fair and impartial judicial branch. We'd get closer to getting one if we stop electing justices — most of whom voters know nothing about — and instead select them according to merit. Fortunately, Nevada is already most o… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
techhub.social
A tech 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 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.6× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

44/100 Fair
  • Est. 67% real, active audience · High fake-follower risk.
  • Low content engagement (~0.5% of followers) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
67%
Fake-follower risk
High

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

I'm an IT manager who moonlights as a weekly opinion columnist for The #Nevada Independent. I usually follow anyone who follows me, so take my Follows list with a grain of salt. Signal: dcolborne.64

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