#darkpattern

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

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2
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
2
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
1.4
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 · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-23 22:43 UTC
0
10-17
0
10-18
0
10-19
1
10-20
1
10-21
0
10-22
0
10-23

2 uses by 2 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-23 22:43 UTC
#darkpatterns
6 uses · 6 accounts / 7d
#darkpatternssindkeineabkurzung
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#darkpatternsdesign
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#DarkPatternComPourLaGrève
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#DarkPatternsFTC
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#DarkPatternDeLEnfer
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#darkpatternalismus
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#darkPatternsExamples
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#darkPatternsInDesign
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#darkPatternsInUx
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#darkpatternsdigitalemanipulation
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#darkpatternsindia
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-23 22:43 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1914 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (22) · French (11) · German (7)

Avg boosts / post: 1.8

Top of the latest posts

  • 💬 NOUVELLE BD : « Je hais (toujours) le téléphone » Oui, on va encore causer de ma haine du téléphone, mais cette fois, sous l'angle des dark patterns. ▶️ https://grisebouille.net/je-hais-toujours-le-telephone #BD #oc #inkscape #humour #Gr

    gee Ⓐ⚑@[email protected]♥ 22↻ 442026-09-21 05:56 UTCView post →

  • Moi qui écris une nouvelle BD : « Tiens, je vais citer Wikipédia pour expliquer ce qu'est un dark pattern… attends, je l'ai pas déjà fait quelque part, ça ? » … Réponse : si. Deux fois même. Ben ça fera trois 😛 J'arrêterai de le faire quan

    gee Ⓐ⚑@[email protected]♥ 7↻ 32026-09-09 09:22 UTCView post →

  • fucking bullshit #darkpattern here from #Apple really hating seeing this sorta shit more & more often. the aggression of manipulative pseudo-inevitability is really nauseating. (for clarity: i have settings for 'automatic install' & 'automa

    t s r o n o@tsrono♥ 6↻ 02026-10-14 01:53 UTCView post →

#darkpattern across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #darkpattern 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.

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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/darkpattern