#boids
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #boids from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #boids
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-24 11:14 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 2026-10-24 11:14 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-24 11:14 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~24577 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (35) · Portuguese (1) · Russian (1) · French (1) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3
Top of the latest posts
#GenerativeArt #SDF #SphereTracing #Agents #Boids #Particles #STRACE 4/x
Found some time last night to implement multi-behaviors and I'm very excited about where this is going... 😍 The video shows 6 different types interacting with (and avoiding) each other. Next step is to vary the behavior matrix over time, c
It's Friday, spring is here (a bit too early) — it feels like a good day to share another minute recording of a variation of my Actiniaria piece which I worked on last spring and think also captures that much needed #BloomScrolling spirit..
What “boids” means
WikipediaBoids is an artificial life algorithm, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to a bird-like object, as well as referencing the stereotypical New York pronunciation of 'bird' as . Reynolds' boid model is one example of a larger general concept,
“Boids” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#boids across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #boids 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/boids