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14.8K
Account age
0 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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🧰 Free analysis for @robpike.io
📊 Post engagement
159
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Jun 2026
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Long ago, I was an angry young man who railed against all the in · 419 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.8 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
351×
Follows 42 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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YouTube Studio is succumbing to fashion trends. Bermuda shorts are next.
I'm worried. Is something wrong? It's almost 10AM and I have zero requests today to update software versions or firmware.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116930245213443949
This is exactly how I feel.
Nolan's "The Odyssey" is totally wrong. The real Polyphemus didn't look like that. The nerve of that man, I tell you!
The gap between hype and reality for AI is vast.
https://karlbode.com/the-ai-hype-reckoning-is-upon-us/
Hey, guys, when you ask me for my cookie choice and I say "reject", you're still allowed to remember that I said "reject" and not ask me again every damn visit.
Unix V4 tape recovered from a closet at the University of Utah. This was news a while back but here's a little news video about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HatXp2dqxb4
Always happy to discover a cafe with comfortable chairs. Too many cafes appear to be designed to have you leave as soon as possible unless you have ample personal padding, which I assuredly do not.
Let's sit and chat and enjoy.
Moving to cosocial.ca as my hosting server because it suits my leanings.
No disrespect intended to my old service, hachyderm.io, who were better than fine. But my Canadian heart wants what it wants.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
cosocial.ca
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Jun 2026
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2026.
👁️Averages 159 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.8× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
54/100
Fair
Credibility score
79%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 79% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Very new account (under 3 months) — higher throwaway/bot risk.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Also: tootfinder
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