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Followers
20.9K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$117 – $190 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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Known for
31 views
What could possibly go wrong? https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/the-trillion-dollar-borrowing-binge-lifting-the-stock-market-to-risky-heights-8d0377f9
#scary
19 views
Say hello to Mr Shrimp.
#Photography #CrustaceansOfMastodon
18 views
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116988481487869187
Not that I’m obsessive or anything.
12 views
In which I spend a week engaged and immersed in music, learn a new instrument and genre, am made full of joy. And suggest that some of you should do this too. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/26/Music-Camp
#music
📊 Post engagement
28
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Walked by an open door at the Music Camp and there was this youn · 63 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
9.6 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
18×
Follows 1.1K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Say hello to Mr Shrimp.
#Photography #CrustaceansOfMastodon
In which I spend a week engaged and immersed in music, learn a new instrument and genre, am made full of joy. And suggest that some of you should do this too. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/26/Music-Camp
#music
What could possibly go wrong? https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/the-trillion-dollar-borrowing-binge-lifting-the-stock-market-to-risky-heights-8d0377f9
#scary
This is cool: https://dnsisbeautiful.com/traceroute/tbray.org
(I mean, it’s still always DNS, but cool nonetheless.)
h/t @Quinnypig
Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116988481487869187
Not that I’m obsessive or anything.
The odds that it’s good aren’t good, but at a glance Molly looks promising.
NEUROMANCER Official Teaser Trailer (2027) Sci-Fi, Apple TV https://share.google/mDs2OdXFO6VkBdIM2
Codeberg is OK by me.
I’m not totally 100% sure that their calls (against #GenAI inputs and #Crypto related projects) will turn out in the rear-view mirror to have been correct, but at this point in history they’re hard to dislike.
For some reason, something opaque inside Google is sending a few dozen people a minute to this 2004 blog post:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/08/18/Borked
(Ok, it's an amusing piece.)
Not going to be online much for the next week, hanging with 250 or so of my best classical-music buds:
https://www.wcams.ca/camp.html
#music
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
cosocial.ca
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
Dec 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 28 views per post.
📤Posts about 9.6× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
These posts are coming from a member-owned cooperative: https://cosocial.info
My posts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
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