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618
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Dries Buytaert
📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Some Open Source is simply shared. Some is stewarded as infrastr · 9 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.5 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
12×
Follows 52 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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When AI causes harm, responsibility should follow meaningful control. Model creators control training and release, product builders control permissions and deployment, and users control deliberate misuse. https://dri.es/responsibility-fol…
When AI causes harm, responsibility should follow meaningful control. Model creators control training and release, product builders control permissions and deployment, and users control deliberate misuse. https://dri.es/responsibility-fol…
I added Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) to my website, giving AI agents another way to discover its search API. https://dri.es/helping-agents-discover-my-site-search-with-agentic-resource-discovery
I added /.well-known/api-catalog support to my site so AI agents could discover my site's search. Zero found it on their own, but an Agent Skill closed the gap: https://dri.es/helping-agents-discover-my-site-search-with-an-api-catalog
A CMO told me connecting a new DAM to her websites was quoted at ~$100K and three months. The reason? Three CMS platforms meant three integrations. That's the hidden cost of CMS fragmentation, and why more orgs are standardizing on Drupal:…
"Anyone can contribute" is not the same as "everyone has the same opportunity to contribute". AI could reduce the privilege of free time in Open Source, but only if access and skill become shared, not private advantages. I wrote about it i…
Drupal's future in AI workflows is both inside and outside the CMS: supporting Drupal-native workflows, external orchestration, and the trusted handoffs between them. https://dri.es/drupal-role-in-agentic-workflows
Podcast: Talking digital sovereignty with James Kanter https://dri.es/podcast-talking-digital-sovereignty-with-james-kanter #foss #opensource #sovereignty
AI is not killing the CMS. It is unbundling creation from control. That may replace the CMS for simple publishing, but it makes the CMS more important wherever content is shared, reused, approved, or trusted across systems. https://dri.es/…
AI agents do not always choose the best software. They choose the path they can complete with the least effort. That gives open source an edge, but only if projects are easy to install, inspect, modify, and verify. New post: https://dri.es…
Speculation Rules changed my mind about prefetching! https://dri.es/speculation-rules-changed-my-mind-about-prefetching #web #performance
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
indieweb.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
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 1.5× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
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