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Followers

116.7K

Account age

9 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.1%

Engagement vs followers

Apr 2017

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Bars should stop using ID scanners that share information, retur · 234 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

27.9 / week

Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3K×

Follows 39 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Bars should stop using ID scanners that share information, return to standard ID checks, and prove to their customers that their privacy and security still matters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/why-are-gay-bars-building-databases-their-patrons ★ 234

Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Fifth Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament @defcon hosted by security expert @Tarah. Join us on August 7 at the Horseshoe Poker Room and take home new prizes, including bug bounty p… ★ 9 EFF’s Dave Maass spoke with @CNN about the anti-ALPR sentiment sweeping the nation. “Once people start learning about the massive scale of the data that’s being collected and who it’s being accessed by, it starts to freak them out.” https:… ★ 51 NEW: EFF’s @pluralistic joins Jon Stewart’s The Weekly Show to examine how the AI industry relies on inflated expectations, question what AI can genuinely do, and explore how AI supercharges problems like surveillance, labor exploitation,… ★ 120 New episode of EFFector is up 🎧 This time, we're chatting with EFF Senior Security and Privacy Activist Thorin Klosowski about the health fitness tracker landscape and your privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fitness-tracker-pri… ★ 22 Privacy afforded by “anyone with a link”-style sharing of chats & documents is fragile, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @TheGuardian. “If you share something with a friend, & they share it with a friend, & they post it to social media, su… ★ 29 “Features like this are a good reminder that email tends not to be terribly private to begin with,” EFF’s @Thorin told @huffingtonpost. “Gmail’s consistent rollout of AI features in particular really showcases just how much access Google… ★ 106 “The young people who could probably least afford to be cut off from their communities are the ones who tend to be suffering and getting harmed the most by these types of laws,” EFF’s @davidgreene told the Journal of Medical Internet Resea… ★ 37 “It’s a scary mass surveillance machine,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told ChicoSol, noting California Attorney General Rob Bonta has called other cities out for the same kind of illegal data sharing. “So it’s pretty clear that Chico’s in violat… ★ 55 Join EFF today and help us: - Push back against government surveillance 📸 - Protect end-to-end encryption 🔐 - Create technologies to keep you safe online 🧑‍💻 Your support makes this work possible. Donate today! https://eff.org/join ★ 41 The Hugging Face incident was “both notable and alarming,” EFF’s @evacide told the San Francisco Examiner, “not because ‘ooh, the model’s so powerful,’ but because it demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of OpenAI to secure the sand… ★ 111 “If you’re going to try and block all of those wonderfully creative humans, you’re going to make it very hard to print props or make social commentary,” EFF’s Cliff Braun told @theverge. https://www.theverge.com/tech/970343/e-reader-case-… ★ 38

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

mastodon.social

A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.

✅ Link-verified

Verified link

Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.

On Mastodon since

Apr 2017

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

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.

👁️Averages 71 views per post.

📤Posts about 27.9× per week.

🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🛡️ Audience credibility

58/100

Fair Credibility score

81%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Verified account.
Established account (9+ years old).

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

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Brands Electronic Frontier Foundation's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

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We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.