#Linux

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

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1,670
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
1,024
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~6.8/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.2
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
—
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 03:07 UTC
232
09-06
291
09-07
289
09-08
262
09-09
273
09-10
303
09-11
20
09-12

1,670 uses by 1,024 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 2026-09-12 03:07 UTC
#LinuxMint
37 uses · 37 accounts / 7d
#linux_gaming
7 uses · 7 accounts / 7d
#linux35
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#linuxgaming
181 uses · 55 accounts / 7d
#linux72
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#linux7
2 uses · 2 accounts / 7d
#linuxmobile
15 uses · 14 accounts / 7d
#linuxaudio
17 uses · 15 accounts / 7d
#linuxkernel
22 uses · 18 accounts / 7d
#linux_memes
2 uses · 2 accounts / 7d
#linux_kernel
4 uses · 4 accounts / 7d
#linuxmemes
7 uses · 7 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 03:07 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~5.9 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 01:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (28) · Spanish (4) · Portuguese (2) · French (2) · German (1) · Russian (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1.1

Top of the latest posts

  • Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I ride Arch Linux :archlinux: today. #archlinux #guix #linux #Gentoo #nix

    Andrew Tropin@abcdw♥ 2↻ 02026-09-12 01:43 UTCView post →

  • Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12986-week-37-2026 #FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource - Evan

    Solus@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-09-12 00:14 UTCView post →

  • I love finally seeing what the "beautiful" omarchy ui actually looks like. It's generic "cyberpunk hacker cool" little white text black background 10 little boxes clusterfuck. Hurts my eyes and im not even old. "Agents as users" wtf am I go

    poor_labsafety@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 12026-09-11 23:57 UTCView post →

What “linux” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

linux

  • nounAny unix-like operating system distro that uses the Linux kernel.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Linux is a family of free and open-source software Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, which was first released on 17 September 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Some members of the family are typically packaged as a distribution, which includes the kernel alongside supporting system software and libraries developed by third parties—such as GNU, Red Hat, and X.Org—to create a complete operating system; however, not all Linux-based operating systems are considered distros, with Android b

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#linux across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #linux 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.

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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/linux