#hostnames
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hostnames from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #hostnames
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-04 22:55 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-04 22:55 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-04 22:55 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 8 public posts (spanning ~28285 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (6) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117118520761875710 This is a very fediverse-y thread with many people describing their network machine naming themes. It feels very wholesome, in a tech-nerd kind of way, and I'm 100% here for it. #hostnam
But the most interesting part, to me, was using those #hostnames with `finger` and `talk`. See a machine name listed with a domain that was clearly a university or technical school, use `finger @hostname` to see who was logged on, and then
Incident Responders: people name their systems silly names. What's the silliest name you've had to put into an incident communication or report? The one time you wrote "SPONGEBOB was compromised" or "the hackers logged in to NIRVANA" and co
#hostnames across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #hostnames 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/hostnames