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Followers
3.3K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
16
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: “Before ~1800, almost every parent lost a child; now it’s such a · 111 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
5×
Follows 668 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Great new SuperDuper update! https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
Yes yes yes to everything on @siracusa’s list: https://hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-checklist
Happy 15th birthday to one of my all-time favorite apps, Fantastical
https://flexibits.com/blog/2026/05/happy-15th-birthday-fantastical-and-flexibits/
@cabel Just read https://cabel.com/the-snacks-cereals-of-2025/ -- this is incredible 😆
One of my favorite things about Macworld Expo was getting to hang out with amazing people like Chuck every year. R.I.P.
https://geektells.com/remembering-chuck-la-tournous/
"20 public health wins in 2025” Science!
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/20-public-health-wins-in-2025
On the topic of childhood vaccine schedules, this post from epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina has a great summary of how and why we have them, how safe they are, and how effective they are (scroll down to “Then onto Friday”).
https://yourloc…
Excited that this year's Mac App of the Year finalists—Acorn, Essayist, and Under My Roof—are all from indie developers
https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1849772173
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-announces-finalists-for-the…
https://schwarztech.net/articles/interview-with-macsurfers-new-owner-ken-turner
“If you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roads” https://electrek.co/2025/07/20/if-you-think-electric-bikes-are-bad-theres-a-much-bigger-menace-hitting-our-roads/
And congrats to @ccgus and Acorn! https://shapeof.com/archives/2025/6/acorn_fn_wwdc_2025_keynote.html
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ 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
Nov 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 16 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× 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.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
💚 Brand affinity
EstimatedBrands Dan Frakes's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.
About
Editorial at…a fruit company. Former NYT, Wirecutter, Macworld; former policy analyst. Pro-science. Chicago & Bay Area sports fan; dad; UCLA; IMSA.edu. I’ve been on many failed social networks. Be curious, not judgmental.
🔀 Audience overlap
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