#futility
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #futility from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #futility
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 2026-11-05 14:14 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-11-05 14:14 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-05 14:14 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~16404 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.” ― Confucius #Bot #Quote #Futility #Knowledge #Religion
🚀🎉 Wow, someone rewrote #Postgres in #Rust just to make sure it still passes the same tests it did before. Genius! 🙄 Just what we needed: another exercise in #futility masked as #innovation. 👏 https://github.com/malisper/pgrust #Rewrite
Inheriting a post's visibility setting of "Followers only" for Mastodon replies. IIUC, is a rather absurd feature. OP has followers a, b, and me. I have followers x and y, neither of whom follows OP. X and Y see my reply to OP but can't see
What “futility” means
Wiktionary#futility across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #futility 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/futility