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Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: A response to Burn Murdoch's highly flawed Financial Times artic · 24 likes + reposts
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Posting cadence
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Follower / following
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cont'd/
Here's the link
https://www.ey.com/content/dam/ey-unified-site/ey-com/en-gl/insights/assurance/documents/ey-gl-neu-extractivism-report-06-2026.pdf#CUSP
/ends
cont'd/
The E&Y variant is used in some contexts, but it is confusing to use the term with this definition, when the usually understood meaning relates specifically to the expoloitation of primary resources from 'sacrifice zones' to profit…
/cont'd
Whereas, more usually,
"Extractivism is the removal of natural resources, particularly for export, with minimal processing. This economic model is common throughout the Global South and the Arctic region, but also occurs in some sa…
cont'd/
Theirs:
"Extractivism: a form of excessive extraction
that privatizes gains for a minority while
socializing costs, particularly when this
activity exceeds planetary and social
boundaries. Extractivism is distinguished
from necessa…
This is a bit odd. A report from Enrst and Young on 'extractivism'. Methodology overseen by Tim Jackson.
It uses a definition of extractivism that isn't the usually accepted one.
/cont'd
#extractivism
Andy Burnham’s ‘#Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy #Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister. He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title 'Manchesterism'. Much ink has already been spilled in …
@timparrique
"A column like this takes minutes to read, hours to write, but days to fact-check against the literature. I’m aware that this is a losing battle for scientists, who will always run out of time first. My hope is that this debu…
@timparrique "Across all five claims, the pattern repeats: Burn-Murdoch reaches for a congenial source, drops its caveats, and presents his selective interpretation as settled science. Coming from the Financial Times’s chief data reporter,…
Skimming the book, this stood out for me.
"The conventional claim that degrowth ideas originate in the North clearly needs to be unsettled."
This looks excellent: by Julien-François Gerber.
Degrowth: Revitalizing critical development studies
https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3136/degrowth
Available as a free pdf download but if you can do consider buying it from Practi…
Some notes on ‘Manchesterism’
by Mark Burton (with input from the SSM collective)
Britain’s probable next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has used the word ‘Manchesterism’ for his alternative governmental programme. Since we have been observ…
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Home server
mstdn.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
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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.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 5.8× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
92%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
DegrowthUK network, bringing together those with an interest in learning about and promoting #degrowth in these islands. https://degrowthuk.org
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