Matt Palmer
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Followers
234
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Jan 2023
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: My new favourite audio genre is "podcast archives from before dy · 5 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
5.9 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.8×
Follows 84 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post My new favourite audio genre is "podcast archives from before dynamic ad insertion". I now have a strong desire to purchase an all new 2012 Toyota. ★ 5
Kudos to FedEx for sticking to their original delivery estimate of Wednesday, despite the package arriving at the local DC at 4am on Monday. I hope they don't charge me extra for storage. The perfect example of the principle that "the purpose of a system is what it does" does not exi... "A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets private equity and millionaire… ★ 1 Get in, loser, we're going to socialise some losses! "The clean-up bill for the Liberty Bell Bay manganese smelter site may ultimately may be paid by the Tasmanian government, according to legal experts, following administrators' failure t… I heard someone claim to be "AI consultant of the year", and I threw up a little in my mouth. There's lots of ways in which blockchains and LLMs are eerily similar, but there's one I've not seen mentioned: how every single use-case for both can be categorised into one of two buckets: "can be done better by something else" and "nobo… ★ 3 I just found someone who made the typo "asstable multivibrator" and I don't think I can continue doing what I was doing due to the juvenile giggling. ★ 3 At the moment you're including an ingredient named "postbiotic wellmune" in your snake oil, you need to wonder if you're just trolling yourself. I don't believe there is a Volt Typhoon style threat actor in Australian telcos, because nation state adversaries know they couldn't do a better job than the telco itself. I introduced the offspring to the classic post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies recently (Road Warrior and Thunderdome), and I was surprised by the element of the movies for which I was unable to suspend my disbelief. A hippie commune running an… ★ 1 "Our platform is 50 times as bad as it looks" should not be the slam dunk PR talking point that social media platforms appear to think it is. > TikTok says 98pc of harmful content removed before being seen in Australia > Most of the harmfu… ★ 1 Dear people who are speaking skeptically of LLMs: stop this both-sidesism of "I'm sure AI has uses, just not in *my* little corner". I recently heard a musician say essentially these exact words while decrying the "fucking bad manners" of… ★ 3

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Jan 2023
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 5.9× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
89%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Recovering sysadmin, technology lover, crypto(graphy!) nerd, he/him.

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