#alternet

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #alternet from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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193
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
7
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~2.8/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-17 05:39 UTC
34
09-11
15
09-12
16
09-13
39
09-14
40
09-15
43
09-16
6
09-17

193 uses by 7 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 2026-09-17 05:39 UTC
#alternetsummerschool
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#alternetive
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#alternets
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#alternetrawstorycase
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#alternetaipolicy
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#alternetnews
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#AlternetiveEnergie
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-17 05:39 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~15 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (40)

Avg boosts / post: 0.1

Used together with

No co-used tags in the sample.

Top of the latest posts

  • MAGA senator Trump betrayed seems to endorse Dem James Talarico #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5FN4V

    #TuckFrump@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-09-17 01:42 UTCView post →

  • 'Juvenile': Trump aide rages that voters don't care about his name on things #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5FN3G

    #TuckFrump@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-09-17 01:17 UTCView post →

  • 'Freaked out' Europeans are moving gold out of the US over Trump: expert #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5FN12

    #TuckFrump@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-09-17 00:42 UTCView post →

What “alternet” means

Wikipedia

AlterNet is a left-leaning news website based in the United States. It was launched by the Independent Media Institute. In 2018, the website was acquired by owners of Raw Story.

“AlterNet” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#alternet across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #alternet 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.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

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/alternet