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Followers
142
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

📊 Post engagement

25
Avg engagement / post
17.6%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: The reason I felt so uneasy when the NYTimes bought Wordle got · 126 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
1.3 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.2×
Follows 65 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post The reason I felt so uneasy when the NYTimes bought Wordle got confirmed: the company now feels entitled to a whole puzzle game genre. They're threatening open source game projects of legal action. https://www.404media.co/nytimes-files-copyright-takedowns-against-hundreds-of-w… ★ 126
Continuing my work on fundamental theory of procedural generators. One result can be nicely summed up as: "The Library of Babel contains no knowledge." ★ 2 These last years, fasting for Ramadan was especially hard for me, due to several intense mental health and social contexts. I used to enjoy doing it, and I miss it a lot. I'm going to try to get back to it tomorrow, please wish me luck 🙏✨ ★ 4 They're out there claiming they own the concept of a "5x6 grid" and different color cues for correct/incorrect guesses. .... On a totally unrelated note, here's a picture of 1993 french board game MOTUS, based on a TV show with the same ga… ★ 93 I wonder if public researchers who worked on GPT models realise that they did free R&D for OpenAI and therefore, free R&D for the US military? ★ 3 Never thought I'd say this one day, but gamedev communities are now prone to cultural appropriation and exploitation. What the hell. ★ 3 In 2019, some AI bros found a niche interactive fiction community, downloaded all their work without their consent and created the *very-fucked-up* AI Dungeon. How long before they find out about Pico8, Ludum Dare and other creative archiv… ★ 9 leave keys, slam the door this house trims all its rose buds you are all thorns there 🥀 As an artist and a researcher, I know that the field of "doing cool design stuff with computers" existed way before the current trend of deep generative models. I find solace in the knowledge that will not die with it. In the meantime, it'… ★ 8 No, they don't hate the field of making computers do stuff. They hate the devaluation of their profession, the stupid executive decisions, the worsening of their working conditions and doing free labor for the Silicon Valley. ★ 7 I've seen many people in my field have a knee-jerk reaction when the public say that they "hate AI stuff" cause they know that the field isn't just what the public is aware of. I think that's a mistake and we should absolutely listen to th… ★ 9 I'm coming to terms with the fact that like many other words, "AI" is loosing its previous meaning (used to be a field of research) and is now being used to describe a specific set of technologies, for a specific use, made by specific peop… ★ 15

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
peoplemaking.games
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
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 25 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.3× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

80/100 Excellent
  • Est. 87% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong content engagement (~0.2× of followers) — an active, real audience.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
87%
Fake-follower risk
Low

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Multi-awarded game designer & creative AI researcher. Practitioner of forbidden ludic alchemy.

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