#paywalls
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #paywalls from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-19 22:36 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-19 22:36 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 22:36 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~6968 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (35) · German (4) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.1
Top of the latest posts
For those who struggle with #Paywalls on #news/scientific #articles: Two websites which are indispensable: https://periscope.corsfix.com/ - Periscope acts as a proxy which gets past news paywalls https://sci-hub.su/ - Sci-hub. also found at
→ What is Roblox teaching children about capitalism? https://psyche.co/ideas/what-is-roblox-teaching-children-about-capitalism “Roblox is unprecedented in scale and structure, and through play it habituates children to capitalism by normali
"Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/06/congress-wants-to-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall-again/ "Every relevant court that has looked at this question — including the Supreme Court — has ag
What “paywalls” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediapaywalls
- nounA feature of a website, application or service that only allows access to certain content or functions upon payment.
A paywall is a method of restricting access to content, with a purchase or a paid subscription, especially news. Beginning in the mid-2010s, newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites as a way to increase revenue after years of decline in paid print readership and advertising revenue, partly due to the use of ad blockers. In academics, research papers are often subject to a paywall and are available via academic libraries that subscribe.
“Paywall” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#paywalls across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #paywalls 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/paywalls