#abstaining
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #abstaining from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #abstaining
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-23 15:23 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-23 15:23 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-23 15:23 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~18448 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
Labour MPs to be ‘blacklisted’ if they don't back benefit cuts Punishing MPs for voting in constituents interest is #NotDemocracy #Labour MPs to be blacklisted for Govt jobs if they fail to back #cuts Rebels face having the #PartyWhip suspe
#US #FDA eases #blood #donations #restrictions for #men who have #sex with men. The new #policy finalised on Thursday, May 11, allows more #gay and #bisexual #men and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) to donate #blood without #abstain
What “abstaining” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaAbstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a voter casts a ballot willfully made invalid by marking it wrongly or by not marking anything at all. A "blank voter" has voted, although their vote may be considered a spoilt vote, depending on each legislation, while an abstaining voter has not vote
“Abstention” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#abstaining across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #abstaining straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/abstaining