Packy Anderson

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Followers
394
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

1
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Perl Weekly Challenge: The World Turned Upside Down! Perl Weekly · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
1.4 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.5×
Follows 735 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Perl Weekly Challenge: The World Turned Upside Down! Perl Weekly Challenge 382's tasks are "Hamiltonian Cycle" and "Replace Question Mark". As soon as I saw "Hamiltonian", I knew I needed to use a song from Hamilton: An American Musical... but I couldn't decide which song best f… ★ 2
Perl Weekly Challenge: Hey! Are we doing government work here? Perl Weekly Challenge 383's tasks are "Similar List" and "Nearest RGB". Since this week's tasks are both about finding things that are close, but not exact, and because my wife… ★ 1 Perl Weekly Challenge: Oh, yes! I’m the great row column! Perl Weekly Challenge 381's tasks are "Same Row Column" and "Smaller Greater Element". This week I honed in on "great" for the music choice, and Freddie Mercury's version of The Gre… ★ 1 Perl Weekly Challenge: Just like honey, baby, from the bee Perl Weekly Challenge 380's tasks are "Sum of Frequencies" and "Reverse Degree". For music... She's as sweet as Tupelo honey She's an angel of the first degree... https://packy… ★ 2 @katharinehayhoe.com Clearly the fossils were being prepared for a CAT scan. By which, I mean a cat is going to sniff them. Perl Backfill Challenge: Shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend! I'm making another entry backfilling the challenges I missed while my mother was dying; I'm doing these in her honor. Perl Weekly Challenge 297's tasks were "Conti… ★ 2 Perl Weekly Challenge: I see strings reversed… sum numbers, too… Perl Weekly Challenge 379's tasks are "Reverse String" and "Armstrong Number". So, I think for music this week, I'll give you a number by Armstrong. https://packy.dardan.com… ★ 2 Perl Weekly Challenge: ‘Cause I’d Already Know Perl Weekly Challenge 378's tasks are "Second Largest Digit" and "Sum of Words". I blame, er, thank my wife for this music selection... Second largest digit Is not the words in this week's se… ★ 1 Perl Weekly Challenge: They run and hide their heads / They might as well be dead… Perl Weekly Challenge 377's tasks are "Reverse Existence" and "Prefix Suffix". Hmmm. Reverse. What does "reverse" make me think of musically? The existence … ★ 2 Perl Weekly Challenge: You might think I’m crazy, but I don’t even care Perl Weekly Challenge 376's tasks are "Chessboard Squares" and "Doubled Words". I already picked Chess the musical back in PWC 281, double for 290, and word for 255 an… ★ 1 Perl Weekly Challenge: You’ve got to get up every morning… Perl Weekly Challenge 375's tasks are "Single Common Word" and "Find K-Beauty". 🤔 Ok, I'm free-associating here, but the "K" and "Beauty" made me think of Carol King and Beautiful.… ★ 1 Perl Weekly Challenge: I’ve got my back against the Turing machine… In this post, I'm starting to go back and filling in the challenges I missed in 2024-2025 when my mother was hospitalized and dying. Perl Weekly Challenge 295's tasks were… ★ 1

🐘 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
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 1.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

52/100 Fair
  • Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
76%
Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
High

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

About

(he/him) Packy's just 'zis guy, you know? :opensource: :terminal: :perl: :bash: :git: :freebsd: :fosstodon: :mastodon: :starfleet: :apple: :android: :commodore: ActivityPub for blog: @admin Calckey: @packy #programmer #SoftwareDeveloper #Mac #macOS #FreeBSD #android #JAPH #perl #perl5 #rakudo #OpenSource #bash #git #retrocomputing #VAX #VMS #C64 #WoSo #USWNT #NWSL #StarTrek #StarWars #B5 #Muppets #puppets #MusicalTheater searchable Location: New Jersey, USA

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

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