#GNU
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #GNU from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #gnu
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 2026-10-21 07:10 UTC47 uses by 41 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 2026-10-21 07:10 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-21 07:10 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~116 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (17) · Spanish (10) · French (7) · German (4) · Portuguese (1) · Greek (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.6
Top of the latest posts
Those grouped notifications on the GNOME Mobile lock screen are gorgeous and practical! #gnome #gnomemobile #nura #mobilelinux #linux #gnu #gnulinux
Quadrapassel is a great little Tetris game you can play on your Linux phone! I really like how it pauses in GNOME Mobile when you switch to another app or open the Overview. You can take a call, reply to a message, or install an app, then p
#Linux Weekly Roundup for October 18th, 2026: #Ubuntu 26.10, #KDE Plasma 6.8, #Firefox 158, #LinuxMint 27 and Ubuntu 27.04 release date, #Thunderbird 158, #IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204, #Mesa 26.2.5, #GNOME 50.6, #Libreboot 26.10, #Shelly 3.
What “gnu” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediagnu/njuː/
- nounA large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns.
Wildebeest, also called gnu, are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa. They belong to the family Bovidae, which includes true antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates. There are two species of wildebeest: the black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu, and the blue wildebeest or brindled gnu.
“Wildebeest” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#gnu across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #gnu 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/gnu