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Followers
409
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 OST2 is made possible by instructors who · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
85.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

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🔥 Top post 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 OST2 is made possible by instructors who want to help other security engineers learn skills faster. So what we'd really like to see for this coming year are more instructors teaching more diverse topic areas. If you 🫵 have an idea for a class, reach out a… ★ 2
🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 So what can we look forward to this coming 6th year of #OST2's existence? We never want to count our chickens before they hatch, but we have instructors who've already recorded videos on classes such as Intel x86 vi… ★ 1 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 And finally, thanks to all 37k+ folks who are taking classes at OST2! We had our biggest year yet, adding 8k+ students! Being able to teach thousands of people at a time how to become better hackers, better engineer… ★ 2 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 We're also going to be running a fundraising push for gamification of the OST2 site with many more details dropping soon. If you want to support that effort you can be an early supporter here: https://www.every.org… 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 We're committed to using individual donors' funds to always directly pass through to instructors (never for overhead costs), and we'll once again be passing through your thanks to the current instructors as an honor… 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 Thanks to everyone who's donated individually to OST2 this past year! https://ost2.fyi/Donate-Money.html
Whether with corporate matching through work (we are an actual charity registered in the US after all) or indi… 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 OST2 needs more sponsors to keep growing! https://ost2.fyi/Sponsorship.html If you want your company to sponsor #OST2, reach out via email at "sponsor at ost2.fyi". It's much more cost effective than sponsoring conf… 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 Sponsors like NCC Group @nccgroupplc, 3mdeb @3mdeb, and Dark Mentor @DarkMentor are "donors in kind" who have funded their employees to make classes for OST2! Are you a leader at a company that wants to make more se… 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 Returning sponsor Cyber5W @cyber5w https://ost2.fyi/Sponsor_Cyber5W has continued to be a stalwart🥉Bronze Sponsor! 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 AMI @ami_pr https://ost2.fyi/Sponsor_AMI which is an Independent BIOS Vendor (IBV) has seen the value of using OST2's Secure Development training https://ost2.fyi/SecDev1001 & https://ost2.fyi/SecDev1002 to help the… 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 Hex-Rays @HexRaysSA https://ost2.fyi/Sponsor_HexRays_SM of IDA Pro fame saw the great "Debuggers 1101: Introductory IDA " course made by Christina Johns @bitmaize and became a new 🥇Gold Sponsor this past year! 🥳#OST2_5th_Anniversary🎉 Returning 🥇Gold Sponsor @binarly_io https://ost2.fyi/Sponsor_Binarly_SM increased their sponsorship this year, by also sponsoring the Firmware Security Learning Path! https://ost2.fyi/FWSEC_LP_pdf

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Apr 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 85.7× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

64/100 Good
  • Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
89%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
Medium

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

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501(c)(3) Non-Profit providing Open Source and Open Access computer security training material. #OST2 re-launched July 2021!

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