Michael Rill

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Mastodon @michaelrill@indieweb.social
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📣Sponsored postOne disclosed post (toot) with your link and message. $12→ 🧵Sponsored threadA multi-post explainer or story — the fediverse rewards dept… $30→ 📦Product seeding / honest reviewSend me your product — I post a disclosed, honest take. Auth… $16→ 📌Pinned sponsored postA disclosed post pinned to the top of my profile for the mon… $36/mo→ 🔗Profile link (bio field)Your link in one of my profile metadata fields for the month… $18/mo→ 🔁Boost packageI boost (repost) your account's toots through the month — di… $24/mo→ 🏛️Instance / community sponsorshipSponsor the server I run — a sponsor line in the About/rules… $30/mo→ 🤝Mutual boost collabWe boost each other across instances — a value swap between … Swap→

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Followers
23
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

1
Avg engagement / post
4.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Bubbles https://www.michaelrill.xyz/2026/06/27/bubbles/ · 1 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.07 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.4×
Follows 63 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Bubbles https://www.michaelrill.xyz/2026/06/27/bubbles/ ★ 1
How to get out of bed – Mike Monteiro Mike Monteiro’s newsletter might be the first newsletter I started paying for without having subscribed to it. I like his writing, I like his message and the way that he packages it up into things I ca… Essential Nature of Adventure Last year David Smith, indie developer of apps like Widgetsmith, Pedometer++ and Watchsmith among others, wrote about his celebration of his birthday by hiking "42 peaks in 42 hours at 42 years old". It's a wo… Over a weekend I played with Claude Code to rebuild my site around a two-column layout I’d been trying to get right since 2005. The result is better than I intended. https://www.michaelrill.xyz/2026/04/25/20-years-in-the-making-rebuilding-… ★ 1 Ever been in a meeting where the VP declares a bold new vision... again? The team feels whiplash, nothing gets finished, and morale tanks. This time, one PM did something different. A story about how documentation drives clarity. https://w… Searching like it's 2004 again. I'm intrigued and will try it out for a few weeks as my default search. First impression: Wow, this looks clean and feels fast. https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/ @cabel Thank you so much for a great start into season 2 of the Playdate podcast. I missed you guys ❤️ Especially their calendar timeboxing experiment has some nice tactical tips and good data points on efficacy: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/distributed-work/calendar-redesign-experiment Fascinating reflection by Atlassian on 1,000 days of distributed work: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/distributed-work/distributed-work-report "iOS lock screen photo shuffle" with photos of my family is one of the most delightful iOS features I've only discovered last month (it's been existing since Sep '22). Such a source of joy https://www.theverge.com/23461505/iphone-ios-16-lo… Careers are not linear. Success in any discipline often involves experiencing plateaus of mediocrity or mundane struggles. That's OK, because plateaus are temporary if you continue to show up, do good work and learn. https://michaelrill.xy… Nice essay by Kelsey McKinney to remind us that the internet has – despite growth and broad adoption – become too small and limiting in recent years. It’s a call to action for us to break out of our echo chambers and embrace the vastness a…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
indieweb.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 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

83/100 Excellent
  • Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~4.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
99%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
Medium

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

About

Raging introvert, estimated to be 120% German. Passionate about photography. If Sheldon knocked on my door three times, I'd let him in.

🔀 Audience overlap

Estimated

Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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