#badtech

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

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1
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
1
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.1
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 2026-11-02 19:17 UTC
0
10-27
0
10-28
0
10-29
1
10-30
0
10-31
0
11-01
0
11-02

1 uses by 1 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 2026-11-02 19:17 UTC
#badtechsupport
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechday
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechtakes
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechdadjokes
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechbgpnigeriainternettootmegoogle
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechtip
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechadvice
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechjokes
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#badtechnology
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-02 19:17 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~19840 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (40)

Avg boosts / post: 0.5

Top of the latest posts

  • Arch supply chain attacks: Arch Linux has a popular package repository called AUR. It's a frequent target of attacks to inject malware, so KDE is going to stop including it https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/KDE-Linux-Drops-AUR #sup

    Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-06-11 17:39 UTCView post →

  • I've been waiting for a hospital appointment for a few months, then got an SMS about it via a system called DrDoctor. The text came last week while I was away so waited till today to open the link, but it now says the link's expired! I've e

    Dan Corne@dancorne♥ 1↻ 02024-09-16 11:13 UTCView post →

  • AO3 hacked, down: Internet's premier fan fiction site got hacked, is offline for a couple of weeks while they figure it out https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/g12jnxck9g6h #via:waxy #badtech #fiction #writing #fandom #fanfic #slash #hack #

    Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 12026-10-30 16:14 UTCView post →

#badtech across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #badtech 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/badtech