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It's FOSS

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📣Sponsored postOne disclosed post (toot) with your link and message. $350→ 🧵Sponsored threadA multi-post explainer or story — the fediverse rewards dept… $875→ 📦Product seeding / honest reviewSend me your product — I post a disclosed, honest take. Auth… $455→ 📌Pinned sponsored postA disclosed post pinned to the top of my profile for the mon… $1,050/mo→ 🔗Profile link (bio field)Your link in one of my profile metadata fields for the month… $525/mo→ 🔁Boost packageI boost (repost) your account's toots through the month — di… $700/mo→ 🏛️Instance / community sponsorshipSponsor the server I run — a sponsor line in the About/rules… $875/mo→ 🤝Mutual boost collabWe boost each other across instances — a value swap between … Swap→ 🎬UGC HireBranded content for your own channels & ads from $204→ 🎙️Podcast guest spotInvite It's FOSS onto your podcast (~45 min, remote) $204→ 📞1:1 ConsultPaid video call — advice, coaching or Q&A $75/hr→

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Followers
58.3K
Account age
8 yrs
🎁 Free analysisfor It's FOSS
🕵️Fake Followers CheckReal-audience % & bot risk→ 📊Engagement rateBenchmarked vs. peers→ 💰What they chargeFair sponsored-post price→

📊 Post engagement

21
Avg engagement / post
0%
Engagement vs followers
Sep 2017
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: What does a self-hosted Discord alternative look like today? htt · 44 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
16.9 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.6K×
Follows 36 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post What does a self-hosted Discord alternative look like today? https://itsfoss.com/roomy-discord-alternative/ ★ 44
The idea is to use Raspberry Pi as an always-on Hermes backend while using it from the computer(s). https://itsfoss.com/hermes-desktop-remote-gateway/ ★ 5 The work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week. https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-kernel-removal-feature/ ★ 15 Distrohopping is fun, but it comes with many learnings. 📚🤓 https://itsfoss.com/opinion/distrohopping-lesson/ ★ 24 openJiuwen is an open-source AI agent platform to help developers build production-grade AI agents and enable large-scale multi-agent collaboration. https://itsfoss.com/news/openjiuwens-agent-swarm/ ★ 8 The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn't apply to the wider Rust project. https://itsfoss.com/news/rust-code-repo-ai-policy/ ★ 14 An interview with Bianca Lewis of OpenSearch, conducted at Open Source Summit India. https://itsfoss.com/open-search-bianca-lewis/ ★ 12 The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it. https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/ ★ 28 The release is powered by Debian 13.5 and Linux 7.0, with NVIDIA Grace and Vera systems fully supported. https://itsfoss.com/news/proxmox-virtual-environment-arm64-support/ ★ 25 Moxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently after AI agents started poking at the dead code. https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-old-moxa-driver-removal/ ★ 14 Coding is not just for grownups. 😉 https://itsfoss.com/ways-kids-learn-code/ ★ 30 RSS feed is one way to escape the clutches of algorithms. https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-32/ ★ 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
Sep 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 8 years ago.
👁️Averages 21 views per post.
📤Posts about 16.9× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
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 (~0.0% 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 (8+ years old).

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

About

World's leading Linux and Open Source web portal. https://itsfoss.com/

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