#darkpatterns
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #darkpatterns from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #darkpatterns
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-24 07:09 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-24 07:09 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-24 07:09 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1922 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (27) · German (7) · French (6)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
I wanted to stop using #Duolingo for quite some time now, but it was hard, because the #streak kept me hooked! #AdhdBrain I disabled all notifications and sounds, but I still kept going on, even though it stopped being fun a long time ago.
@skribe Yes yes yes: open the algorithms. Social media algorithms should not be opaque black boxes, their contents known only to creators, who stand to gain from their dark patterns. #algorithms #darkPatterns #socialMedia #unsocialMedia #bl
#DarkPatterns in Microsoft Betriebssystemen - Stiftung für Konsumentenschutz In #Windows10 :windows: und #Windows11 :windows: werden Benutzer:innen teils zu Einstellungen verleitet, die sie nicht möchten. Ein Report im Auftrag von #Mozilla
#darkpatterns across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #darkpatterns 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/darkpatterns