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Followers
3.2K
Account age
8 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Alex McLean
📊 Post engagement
25
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2018
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: What's your favourite music with five or fewer supporters on ban · 62 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.7×
Follows 852 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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The dynamicland approach to open source really went against the grain, but hits differently in 2026
https://dynamicland.org/2024/Is_Realtalk_open_source/
Thinking about earlier days of free software, I guess GPL was designed for a world where you might get a program on tape, floppy disk, or downloaded from a local BBS (probably historically inaccurate, but stay with me..). You might have an…
I spent a while trying to work out when Tidal was born, but eventually realised it didn't have a birthday, it slowly emerged and came into focus over an extended, continuous series of experiments, events and collaborations..
However I did …
Mine is Lost Coda, really calming https://lostcoda.bandcamp.com/
Still can't quite believe I've managed to wangle Switch Angel, Tim Exile, and badcirculation on to the same bill
but this is happening on Thurs 30th July in Sheffield:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/patternclub/2071368
Thinking of hosting a 'permacomputing meetup'. What's a permacomputing meetup and what happens at them?
Music is a great way to find friends with the same energy as you https://www.reddit.com/r/sheffield/comments/1v1hw5k/musical_andor_artsy_folk_in_sheff/
Hopefully coding will become a lot easier post-AI, because all those corporate 'open source' frameworks will become even more unusable, and straightforward+minimal low/no dependency handmade code the norm.
I still don't know what all these…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ri4FsInjHAk
UK non-academic researchers!
UK Research and Innovation have one research funding programme - 'Future Leaders Fellowships' - which allow and support applications from non-academic researchers, i.e. those hosted by business including non-pr…
TOPLAP is the *Temporary* Organisation for Live Algorithm Programming, but is 22 years old and still going. I think it was actually disbanded at some point over 10 years ago but it carried on by mistake. The problem with vaguely anti-hiera…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
post.lurk.org
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✅ 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 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 8 years ago.
👁️Averages 25 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.7× 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.
- Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (8+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Non-academic #UKRIFLF research fellow at non-profit org @thentrythis, working on algorithmic patterns (@alpaca).
Instigator of @tidalcycles, and co-founder of @algorave, @toplap, algomech festival, etc
I tend to post live coding related things as @yaxu
he/him
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