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Avg engagement / post
1.5%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: People bitch about AI slop - but it's not the AI's fault. The AI · 4 likes + reposts
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Posting cadence
2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.7×
Follows 79 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
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Random +10 insightful comment on hackernews. You will not find a more wretched den of scum and villainy, but there are gems there to be found:
post from bob1029 below:
bob1029 1 hour ago | prev | next [–]
> If coding is easy, how come prog…
Children can be heard crying in the distance...
Photo post
Ran into this on hacker news but it's worth sharing - look at this, and realize that the sort of self-manufacture is *necessarily* a feature of, honestly, any colonization beyond the moon.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/10/a-metal…
Note to self:
Alan Turing was wrong. But not for the reasons you may think.
He proposed the "Turing test" - if a conversation with a machine cannot be differentiated from a conversation with a human, it is reasonable - Turing said - to at…
Status report for the people who eventually stumble on this:
It kinda works. The hardware is old and the OS not tuned for it, and so it's slow and some things don't work; maybe they can be made to, maybe not. I really had to butcher the in…
I won't pretend it was a useful or smart thing. But we'll see.
I did a thing. Tell ME I gotta wait until next year for my Steam Machine!
I was just thinking that a fundamental problem (of many) with AIs is they will confidently pronounce things that are 100% made up bullshit.
Then I realized that every fucking day on social media I see real made-of-meat humans who will als…
What's up?
The sad part about Valve's Steam Machine lottery?
It won't stop scalpers. Just the opposite.
What's going to happen now is a lot of folks who were motivated to sign up in 3 days will suddenly have the opportunity to buy an admittedly expen…
Children can be heard crying in the distance...
Photo post
Ran into this on hacker news but it's worth sharing - look at this, and realize that the sort of self-manufacture is *necessarily* a feature of, honestly, any colonization beyond the moon.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/07/10/a-metal…
Note to self:
Alan Turing was wrong. But not for the reasons you may think.
He proposed the "Turing test" - if a conversation with a machine cannot be differentiated from a conversation with a human, it is reasonable - Turing said - to at…
Status report for the people who eventually stumble on this:
It kinda works. The hardware is old and the OS not tuned for it, and so it's slow and some things don't work; maybe they can be made to, maybe not. I really had to butcher the in…
I won't pretend it was a useful or smart thing. But we'll see.
I did a thing. Tell ME I gotta wait until next year for my Steam Machine!
I was just thinking that a fundamental problem (of many) with AIs is they will confidently pronounce things that are 100% made up bullshit.
Then I realized that every fucking day on social media I see real made-of-meat humans who will als…
What's up?
The sad part about Valve's Steam Machine lottery?
It won't stop scalpers. Just the opposite.
What's going to happen now is a lot of folks who were motivated to sign up in 3 days will suddenly have the opportunity to buy an admittedly expen…
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infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Feb 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.5% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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Ancient Scholar, Level 80 Paladin, Finder of Lost Children. Science blah blah blah Computers blah blah blah...
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