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Followers
4.3K
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

📊 Post engagement

21
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Enshitification on the radio! With the spectacular @pluralistic · 61 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
6.2 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
33×
Follows 128 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
🔥 Top post Enshitification on the radio! With the spectacular @pluralistic https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enshittification-part-1-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-on-the-media ★ 61
Brooke’s conversation with Rebecca Traister on this week’s show is an emotional one https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/e-jean-carroll-and-progress-metoo-on-the-media ★ 15 Enshitification part 2!! https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enshittification-part-2-mechanisms-helped-big-digital-go-bad-on-the-media ★ 32 Show’s up! Insight from @rtraister, @doctorow, and @OTMBrooke on that CNN town hall, E. Jean Carroll, and the strategies Big Tech uses to fight off competition. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-her-day-in-court ★ 7 Big news today! ★ 45 Show's up! This week: how Iraqi journalists have fought to tell their stories in the 20 years since Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. Plus, missing coverage from the Disney v. Florida lawsuits, & a theory to account for the internet’s … ★ 17 Sign up for our newsletter for a chance to win Brooke’s marked-up copy of a book she was preparing for an OTM segment. It’s a real peek behind the scenes of our production process. ★ 9 Get excited folks: on this week’s OTM it’s a @pluralistic takeover! It’s Enshittification: radio-edition. ★ 27 Hey this week we collaborated with our friends at Death, Sex and Money to make this incredible episode. Check it out https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/episodes/leaving-extreme-right-and-marriage-behind ★ 8 The new Vice podcast about the Havana Syndrome is a good, deep dive into the mystery. @micahloewinger adds his own spin in this segment on this weeks show: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/unending-mystery-havana-syndrome-… ★ 14 In this piece @micahloewinger spoke to RadioLab’s Robert Krulwich https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/curious-case-50000-missing-pigeons-on-the-media ★ 6 This week’s show is a little different for us. We were feeling anxious all week that we weren’t doing the Tucker news but in the end isn’t it better to have a little break from it all? https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-t… ★ 12

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 21 views per post.
📤Posts about 6.2× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

72/100 Good
  • Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
94%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

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

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