#IRC
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #IRC from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #irc
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 2026-09-13 04:01 UTC11 uses by 11 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 2026-09-13 04:01 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 04:01 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~488 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00
Languages: English (26) · French (5) · Spanish (4) · Chinese (China) (1) · Finnish (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
Some apps have been added to the list of known apps using UnifiedPush, including: - Smither, a mastodon client, - @lichess, the free/libre open-source chess app - @fluxer.app, the discord-like instant messaging app, - SOSRing, able to share
If you self-hosted the Matrix server, then why not just simply run an IRC server too, you may ask. Because there is no single IRC client for iOS. You should have used an Android phone, someone might say. Yes, but why cannot I find a custom
For fellow fans of #IRC - having recently started using the soju.im bouncer, I noticed none of the #GUI or #TUI clients with decent support of it were packaged in #Fedora yet. Not for much longer - #senpai is now available for testing! `sud
What “irc” means
WikipediaIRC is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.
“IRC” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#irc across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #irc 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/irc