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2.1K
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Jim Salter
📊 Post engagement
21
Avg engagement / post
1%
Engagement vs followers
May 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I don't know why I'm noticing this more lately, but all the meme · 120 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
4.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
35×
Follows 61 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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This is an extremely well written essay, and I endorse its position. Strongly.
If all you ever do in life is "the easiest way to get by," are you really, truly, *living*? Or are you just existing?
https://po-ru.com/2026/07/28/you-dont-jus…
The guy behind me at a red light today thought it was hilarious to creep up inches behind me on my motorcycle and lay into his horn EXACTLY as I began cracking the throttle, as the guy ahead of me started moving.
He thought it was so funn…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/116958510287519050
Secret panel is EXTREMELY WORTH IT today. 🤣
I have difficulty imagining the kind of dead-between-the-ears dumbfuckery that leads to designing a wireless device, let alone protocol, in such a way that this kind of thing ROUTINELY happens (and it's not just this one Anker device), but…
God I hate Bluetooth consumer shit.
My kid connected to my Anker Soundcore Motion Boom Plus "boom box" at some point in the last couple of days without my knowledge... so the next time I turned it on, not only did the ongoing (important) c…
Every time I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, I catch something new.
Last night's realization: there is a distinct symmetry between the way Dave disposed of HAL (slowly, deliberately destroying HAL's mind while HAL observed, afraid, powerless…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/116913353398020073
It's better to be yourself.
Ring! Ring! :: random call from somewhere in Texas ::
Me: "This is Jim."
Caller: "Hi, this is mumble from mumble--"
Me: "Sorry, you're who from what again?"
Caller: "Hahaha, this is first name from (Bell Technologies?), you might not remem…
"Hey Jim, how's your Saturday morning going?"
Oh, you know. Got up at a red roof inn fifty miles from the nearest interstate at 0630, dropped off my kid at the local high school here for ACT testing at 0730, waiting in the school parking l…
Today's banger: White Rabbit, by Leonidas (absolutely no relation to the much more famous Jefferson Airplane track, which I also love).
Potential trigger warning: the song is about struggling with cocaine addiction.
https://music.youtube.…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@avatter/116894420849564838
Well, THIS certainly tracks.
Every time I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, I catch something new.
Last night's realization: there is a distinct symmetry between the way Dave disposed of HAL (slowly, deliberately destroying HAL's mind while HAL observed, afraid, powerless…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/116913353398020073
It's better to be yourself.
Ring! Ring! :: random call from somewhere in Texas ::
Me: "This is Jim."
Caller: "Hi, this is mumble from mumble--"
Me: "Sorry, you're who from what again?"
Caller: "Hahaha, this is first name from (Bell Technologies?), you might not remem…
"Hey Jim, how's your Saturday morning going?"
Oh, you know. Got up at a red roof inn fifty miles from the nearest interstate at 0630, dropped off my kid at the local high school here for ACT testing at 0730, waiting in the school parking l…
Today's banger: White Rabbit, by Leonidas (absolutely no relation to the much more famous Jefferson Airplane track, which I also love).
Potential trigger warning: the song is about struggling with cocaine addiction.
https://music.youtube.…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@avatter/116894420849564838
Well, THIS certainly tracks.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
fosstodon.org
A open-source software server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
May 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 21 views per post.
📤Posts about 4.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.0% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka "the biggest ZFS stan on the planet."
I am *not* Jim Salter, the Associated Press reporter based in Missouri. That's a different guy, and he hides from the Internet.
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