Joel “this is bs” Drapper✓

Mastodon @joeldrapper@ruby.social

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Followers

1.8K

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

108

Avg engagement / post

5.9%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve publi · 498 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.03 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 5 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

2.7×

Follows 685 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know so far about the RubyGems takeover. https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/ ★ 498

I don’t post on Mastodon anymore because I find AT is much better. Follow me on the ATmosphere. AT: @joel.drapper.me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joel.drapper.me Mu: https://mu.social/profile/joel.drapper.me Tangled: https://tangled.o… ★ 2 Strings are a leaky abstraction for HTML https://joel.drapper.me/leaky-strings/ ★ 23 It’s funny how he’ll happily do stuff like this in Turbo, but we can’t have keyword arguments in Rails because it’ll break the git commit history. 🤔 Majestic `options = {}` ★ 13 There's a Ruby gem with a two-letter name that keeps a server running in the background so you can run commands with no startup latency. Does anyone remember what it‘s called? ★ 2

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

ruby.social

Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.

✅ 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

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 108 views per post.

📤Posts about 0× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

89/100

Excellent Credibility score

99%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~5.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

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

About

Full-stack #Ruby / #Rails / #TypeScript / #CSS engineer, CEO of #HTMX, formerly at Clearscope and Shopify — author and maintainer of the gems #Phlex, Morphlex, Literal, Quickdraw — cohost the @rooftop podcast.

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