#freenode

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

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-24 04:22 UTC
0
10-18
0
10-19
0
10-20
0
10-21
0
10-22
0
10-23
0
10-24

0 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 04:22 UTC
#freenodeircchatcommunityliberatootme
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#FreenodeTakeover
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#FreenodeGate
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#FreeNodeepKaur
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#freenode_
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-24 04:22 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~31749 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (34) · German (2) · Polish (1) · Spanish (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1

Top of the latest posts

  • @me @shollyethan #liberachat is the 'fork' after the successful hostile takeover of #freenode.

    Hydrian@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-01-13 13:31 UTCView post →

  • I got curious about what happened to #Freenode, and I read an article about it, and... it seems really similar to what happened to #Twitter recently... https://fosspost.org/freenode-collapse/ #TwitterMigration

    Blake Leonard@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 22022-12-20 02:21 UTCView post →

  • and for that, mr. "I am the future of IRC" wrecked an important FOSS community and sent its operators through weeks of intense stress, while putting overtly bigoted cronies in charge of his own operation and driving away FOSS projects to ot

    joepie91 needs more railing 🚅💦 (🔜 eth0)@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 42026-07-31 10:06 UTCView post →

What “freenode” means

Wikipedia

Freenode, stylized as freenode and formerly known as Open Projects Network, is an IRC computer network which was previously used to discuss peer-directed projects. Their servers are accessible from the hostname chat.freenode.net, which load balances connections by using round-robin DNS.

“Freenode” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#freenode across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #freenode 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/freenode