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Followers
664
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for David Wheeler
📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2017
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: serprex and I collaborated on a post for the ClickHouse blog on · 5 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.2×
Follows 551 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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«The companies that once aimed to make good products and postured as democracy-loving and progressive now open ally themselves with fascists, actively enshittify the internet with slop, and force-feed us annoying AI features that nobody wa…
«It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good gov…
The Sqitch Snowflake tests started failing last week on a 404 from the auth request. Looks like the fix it to change the host name from the old $account_name-$region to $org_name-$account_locater. WAT?
Requests rejected by vital stats departments because I wrote the month name instead of number in the request form. SOFTWARE BABYYYYYY!
Why does Slack now provide *two* search fields? SMDH.
Based on the issues created by the artificial text extrusion machines, the companies that make them charge by the number of words produced. Certainly not for clarity, let alone conciseness. Example:
https://github.com/chdb-io/chdb-core/iss…
Should Sqitch drop support for Perls < 5.18?
https://github.com/sqitchers/sqitch/discussions/923
Answer: Run `ldconfig` if restored from cache 🤦🏻
I'm using the GitHub cache action to cache a shared library. It properly restores it to `/usr/local/lib` but something's wrong with it such that it won't load. It appears to have exactly the same name, permissions, ownership, and MD5 hash …
RE: https://pdx.social/@louie/116872710735081416
This. I could not be less interested in the idea of a foldable phone.
«Electron guarantees that an app feels just as wrong on all platforms.»
https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/claudes_criminally_bad_mac_app_is_an_inside_job
Why does Slack now provide *two* search fields? SMDH.
Based on the issues created by the artificial text extrusion machines, the companies that make them charge by the number of words produced. Certainly not for clarity, let alone conciseness. Example:
https://github.com/chdb-io/chdb-core/iss…
Should Sqitch drop support for Perls < 5.18?
https://github.com/sqitchers/sqitch/discussions/923
Answer: Run `ldconfig` if restored from cache 🤦🏻
I'm using the GitHub cache action to cache a shared library. It properly restores it to `/usr/local/lib` but something's wrong with it such that it won't load. It appears to have exactly the same name, permissions, ownership, and MD5 hash …
RE: https://pdx.social/@louie/116872710735081416
This. I could not be less interested in the idea of a foldable phone.
«Electron guarantees that an app feels just as wrong on all platforms.»
https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/claudes_criminally_bad_mac_app_is_an_inside_job
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
xoxo.zone
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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
Apr 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.7× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Intersectional humanist. Profane Iconoclast.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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