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Followers
414
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for Open Source Pledge ⇌
📊 Post engagement
6
Avg engagement / post
1.4%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: To celebrate companies that pay maintainers, we've created a new · 22 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.34 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
104×
Follows 4 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Read the full post here.
https://blog.packagist.com/announcing-the-composer-packagist-sponsorship-program/
RE: https://phpc.social/@packagist/117008833006861501
Package managers support our world's infrastructure, but those who build them have more work on their plate then ever. Companies who rely on this work for their revenue should give some…
secret discord server, please ignore…unless you are interested in open source funding 👀
https://discord.gg/Ay5abGkaxX
Are you a company looking to pay maintainers? You could do a lot worse than using funds.ecosyste.ms, which has been independently verified by a new research paper as being effective in supporting maintainers. And every dollar counts toward…
We love to see that vlt.sh is continuing to pay Open Source maintainers 😊
“While others race away from Open Source, vlt.sh is doubling down. 🖤⚡”
“Today we’re announcing our renewed commitment to
the Open Source Pledge and investing back i…
We're touched by Foxley Talent's dedication to the Open Source ecosystem we all rely on. 🫶
“The last 12 months have been the hardest since I started Foxley Talent (...) [but] for the fourth year running, I have donated $5,000 to the Django…
To keep the Open Source software the world relies on healthy, we need to build healthy Open Source communities. Want to help? You could build a thriving, empathetic OSS community as Railway's new Community Engineer!
https://opensourcepledg…
Congratulations to the npmx.dex team on their launch day 🎉❤️
Here's @vlad on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.
https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/npmx-a-lesson-in-open-source-collaboration-feedb…
Please welcome Railway as the newest member of the Open Source Pledge 🎉
They rely on OSS projects like @vite, TanStack, Drizzle and Tailwind, and they're doing their part to sustain the ecosystem, from which we all benefit.
Read all about…
You have no excuse for Tailwind.
https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/you-have-no-excuse-for-tailwind/
Posit does it again! They've just given over $750,000 to Open Source developers 🎉
https://posit.co/blog/posit-open-source-pledge-2025/
To keep the Open Source software the world relies on healthy, we need to build healthy Open Source communities. Want to help? You could build a thriving, empathetic OSS community as Railway's new Community Engineer!
https://opensourcepledg…
Congratulations to the npmx.dex team on their launch day 🎉❤️
Here's @vlad on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.
https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/npmx-a-lesson-in-open-source-collaboration-feedb…
Please welcome Railway as the newest member of the Open Source Pledge 🎉
They rely on OSS projects like @vite, TanStack, Drizzle and Tailwind, and they're doing their part to sustain the ecosystem, from which we all benefit.
Read all about…
You have no excuse for Tailwind.
https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/you-have-no-excuse-for-tailwind/
Posit does it again! They've just given over $750,000 to Open Source developers 🎉
https://posit.co/blog/posit-open-source-pledge-2025/
🐘 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.
✅ 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
Oct 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
84/100
Excellent
Credibility score
95%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 95% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Open Source Pledge is a group of companies with a shared commitment to paying the maintainers of the Open Source software we all consume.
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