David J A Cooper

Mastodon @djac@aus.social

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Followers

126

Account age

7 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

5.6%

Engagement vs followers

Aug 2018

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: The phrase "less than meets the eye" ought to feature in any att · 44 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.49 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.6×

Follows 203 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post The phrase "less than meets the eye" ought to feature in any attempt to understand #Trump's brain, but I just want to be sure, in light of his letter to the Norwegian PM. From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/donald-trump-greenland-threats-nobel-prize-snub-letter … ★ 44

Introduced my students to the #jqwik software testing tool this semester. Which is now terrorism (ideological terrorism, no less). And also incredibly cringe. I'm not sure which is more devastating. My gods, C++, why are you like this? My crime: std::basic_regex<char8_t>(u8"."). That's the whole code. It's reasonable to expect that this would work (to create a regex object matching UTF-8 strings, both things that have existed for deca…

I used a different computer to access work email, and now #Outlook365 thinks I've moved to Iceland or Liberia. I'll double check, but I don't think my apartment crosses quite that many time zones. Currently getting a storm of weird #scam emails, using an address of mine leaked from #Discord (I know this because I use a specific "+" email address for Discord). Every half hour or so, the scammer opens a support ticket with some perhap… Very difficult, even half-way around the world in Perth, to make sense of #ICE just flat-out murdering a passer-by in #Minneapolis. Not to lessen the plight of the thousands already brutalised and disappeared. To then stay peaceful, to avo… ★ 2 One #scifi #fantasy trope that breaks the magic for me just a bit is the monster with improbably many and improbably long and pointy teeth. I'm looking at you, #DrWho, but not just you. I'm no zoologist, but I like to imagine that a creatu… ★ 1 Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on the product itself. I think it's intended as a kind of customisable fashion thing. I really, really don't understand the baby pics in public though. ★ 1 I just saw someone with a backpack that has a built-in, low resolution screen on the back, cycling through a photo album full of baby pics, like an electric photo frame that you lug around in public. I do not understand why this was create… ★ 2 "Unexploded ordnance and windy conditions have created challenging conditions for about 100 firefighters battling the blaze." Oh yes, just the usual, normal, everyday bushfire threats. High winds, high temperatures, low humidity and HIGH E… ★ 6 #SwinburneUniversity's DVC explaining that Bachelor degrees are "outdated" will, I have absolute confidence, go down really, really well. What a masterstroke. https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/swinburne-offers-formal-qualification-for-uni… ★ 2 Abuse of #trafficwardens is just disgraceful. They should absolutely get body cams, and abusers should lose their licence and their vehicle. You get angry and belligerent because someone is doing their job to protect children? You can't be… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

aus.social

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

On Mastodon since

Aug 2018

An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 7 years ago.

👁️Averages 7 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.5× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

80/100

Excellent Credibility score

97%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~5.6% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Established account (7+ years old).

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

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About

Sci-fi writer, software engineering lecturer, possible solution to bubble tea oversupply, and selective thing arguer. He/him. (Old Twitter account: https://twitter.com/davidjacooper)