Jeff Spencer

Mastodon @jeffs@mastodonapp.uk

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Followers

25

Account age

3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

2

Avg engagement / post

8%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: With many physical archives restricting access to digital images · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.16 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.1×

Follows 272 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post With many physical archives restricting access to digital images only, the challenges of automated OCR reading of text and handwriting reappear in AI-form. Good review of state of the art in this article, and yes with AI hallucinations and omissions, art it remains, with still … ★ 2

PR as Science - behind the headlines and social spin, a private lab has slightly GM modified a Grey Wolf with selected "extinct' genes - but Dire Wolves they are not. Nor is it Science as we know it without any published papers and peer re… ★ 1 Hard to see Zucherberg's Meta improving it's already low image, or that of Generative AI, by this move. They just don't care, this is deliberate theft to help recoup the $$$Bn on building capability greater than any realistic revenue model…

OK, I'm a Boomer stuck in my ways, but why are "white goods" not white any more? I don't change my kitchen design that often, and pleasingly haven't had to change many appliances in recent years, but here in the UK I've found it surprisin… OK Mumsnet is not one of my bookmarked sites (unlike my wife) but I do recognise its value to many in the #UK So why do they have to pay to license their use of #OpenAI whilst the latter company has apparently already scraped their extensi… ★ 2 There are few things I would agree with Simon Cowell about but this is one of them. #UK #ai #creative #Copyright Cowell said a failure to regulate AI properly risked artists and people working behind the scenes “being wiped out”. “The tho… UK Gov "growth" by eroding copyright laws for AI is deluded. #uk #Copyright #ai #creative “Imagine asking ChatGPT to generate your child’s artwork instead of asking the child. And then sticking that on the fridge. It’s a horrible thought,… Kit Yates on that "Stinking Feeling" - his contribution to the Oxford sewage protest. https://open.substack.com/pub/kityates/p/that-stinking-feeling?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2v80dz #uk #water #sewage #ThamesWater More cheese Grommit! #UK #cheese https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/travelled-320-miles-visit-yorkshire-cheese-shop-destination-dairies-2757028 Join me in supporting the legal Fighting Dirty action: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/fighting-dirty-soil/?utm_source=backer_social&utm_campaign=fighting-dirty-soil&utm_reference=adbae1d4128ecc2d71fd75ceba219592&utm_medium=c… As if the UK privatised water company debacle could not get worse, and our so called government even more complicit. Please read George Monbiot's article about the potential poisoning of our children's future. https://www.theguardian.com/c… Proposals to drop the 2031 UK Census again being floated. Need is being questioned yet no trial of alternative multi-source collation appears to have been conducted or planned. Cost saving is another (the main?) driver, but again no coste… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

mastodonapp.uk

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 2 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

80/100 Excellent

Est. 87% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong content engagement (~8.0% of followers) — an active, real audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

Est. authentic audience

87%

Fake-follower risk

Low

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Retired ex-IT Services from HPC to B2BM analytics. Continuing to seek insights into life's mysteries. He/Him/His UK-based

🔀 Audience overlap

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