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6.1K
Account age
4 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
12
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I decided that I needed to write a bit about Matt’s Script Archi · 47 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
9.6×
Follows 632 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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When a giant, seemingly never-ending road ends, why isn’t it more of a big deal?
In today’s @tedium, I ponder my obsession with the terminus.
https://tedium.co/2026/07/17/terminus-road-ending-history/
Hey Sony, there’s no reason there can’t be kiosks across the land burning physical discs for gamers on demand. It’s been done before!
@mattl highlights an example from the UK that covered a surprising number of platforms:
https://tedium.c…
You gotta see this incredible recreation of a vintage web portal. https://flamenet.io/
“We tried the forum thing. We wanted something else. Not necessarily because it was better, though sure, maybe it was. But because it was different.”
https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/
Let me pose an existential question: Would we have been better off if we never had a single place where we could all post snarky quips, but instead used a bunch of shitty web forums that barely worked?
Mayhaps.
https://tedium.co/2026/07/01…
Apple, the master of vertical integration, may have finally found something it can’t vertically integrate: RAM.
https://tedium.co/2026/06/27/apple-micron-ram-shortage-vertical-integration/
new @tedium
So having an issue with my laptop: The camera randomly stopped working this morning, didn’t work in Windows or Linux. BIOS updates did not fix. But after the issue had completely ruined my morning, I set up on my home setup and … the lapto…
RE: https://writing.exchange/@ernie/116795301552777746
Heard from Dave Cross, who worked on nms, the set of scripts intended to replace Matt’s insecure scripts. He was nice enough to address why his own scripts haven’t been updated in 20 y…
“Programmers who weren’t in high school and weren’t so wet behind the ears looked aghast at what Wright had done: He had spread poorly designed, but widely used software across the internet.”
https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archi…
I noticed when I was working on my latest Tedium piece that the original Web forum software, created by the W3C, was no longer online. I downloaded it, did some updates to make it hostable on Docker, and put it online.
Try it here. Don’t u…
If other people can get behind your ethics, fine, but you’re ultimately the one that gets out of bed in the morning. You know what you’re willing to compromise on. Make the call because you want to have a standard for yourself.
I noticed when I was working on my latest Tedium piece that the original Web forum software, created by the W3C, was no longer online. I downloaded it, did some updates to make it hostable on Docker, and put it online.
Try it here. Don’t u…
If other people can get behind your ethics, fine, but you’re ultimately the one that gets out of bed in the morning. You know what you’re willing to compromise on. Make the call because you want to have a standard for yourself.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
writing.exchange
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On Mastodon since
Apr 2022
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.
👁️Averages 12 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (4+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Editor of Tedium, an offbeat newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot, and I accidentally made a search engine.
Support what I do here: https://ko-fi.com/tedium
Interests: #writing #news #history #technology #retrotech #weird #geoworks #freelance
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