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737
Account age
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📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Lobsters heads up: a few days ago GMail started bouncing 20-50% · 15 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.1 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
4.6×
Follows 161 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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I called this 5 years ago (https://lobste.rs/c/jgro9y) and have a simpler way to say it:
There are improvement rates like Moore's Law and its siblings for disk size, bandwidth, etc. Because Lobsters grows less than those rates it has effec…
On Sunday I improved the story page caches to refill in the background and be durable across deploys, so during yesterday's Monday morning peak traffic, the app ticked along averaging 4 rps. Most of those do not write to the db.
SQLite is …
89.6% of site hits (page cache, avatars, js, css) are handled by Caddy. 89.2% of hits that go on to our code in app workers are visitors.
So authed users are 10.8% of app hits, 1.1% of overall hits.
(Avatars and comment redirects could shi…
Due to personal commitments, the next Lobsters office hours won't be until August 18. So let me share some fun stats from the recent perf work!
Lobsters sees ~250k human visitors per day. This is a rough estimation, we'd need client-side t…
This is resolved, the SPF record was valid but overbroad, 'all' instead of just the one VPS IP. Thanks to @penguin42 and @zenspider for pointing me to review it.
I had wanted to stream Lobsters office hours today after all the database excitement (https://lobste.rs/c/cyhnzl), but my neighbor apparently wants to operate a lumber mill and it is _very_ audible on mic. Maybe this afternoon or tomorrow …
RE: https://ruby.social/@pushcx/116929928933877028
Getting the post-sqlite-migration Lobsters office hours stream started now: https://twitch.tv/pushcx
After our biggest code lift, Lobsters has migrated from MariaDB to SQLite in prod. The primary dev wrote up a great post about it: https://lobste.rs/s/ko1ji1/ I'll stream office hours in 25 minutes, happy to answer your questions and run y…
After an unplanned summer vacation (plus an hour of inglorious battle with fc-cache), I'm getting the Lobsters office hours stream started: https://twitch.tv/pushcx. FAQ & archive at https://push.cx/stream but drop in with questions or jus…
I'm getting the Lobsters office hours stream started at https://twitch.tv/pushcx - plenty of PRs and, if there's time, I'll work on increasing the visibility of modmail. Drop in anytime with questions. Archive and faq at https://push.cx/st…
I'm getting the Lobsters office hours stream started at https://twitch.tv/pushcx - no specific topic planned, so it's a great day to drop in with questions. FAQ + archive at https://push.cx/stream
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Aug 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.1× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
61/100
Fair
Credibility score
84%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 84% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Programmer by day, programmer by night.
Blog: https://push.cx Bootstrapping: https://recheck.dev
I run https://lobste.rs and stream office hours Mon+Thu: https://push.cx/stream
It's better to follow https://bsky.app/profile/push.cx - the bugs have pushed me away from reading Mastodon much.
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