#sixel
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sixel from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sixel
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-26 23:08 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-26 23:08 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-26 23:08 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~13053 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (34) · Spanish (2) · Czech (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.1
Top of the latest posts
Vždycky když se přihlásím na server vítá mě krásná #MagnetickáNymfa od @prahou a kdo vítá na serverech vás ? #ssh #unix_surrealism #Sixel
Nobody replied, so I wrote this bash function for manually bulk editing #ImageDescription s for #AltText using sixel. I don't like using #sixel very much. But it works well for this. Requires: sixel, terminal emulator with sixel support, #B
steeph :verifiedqueer: :verifiedace: 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ (not a hammer)@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 12026-08-15 09:20 UTCView post →Wow, I’ve just tried #brow6el - a #sixel based terminal (!) web browser - on one of classic Polish portals, packed with ads and mashup JS/HTML. And it… works! Sixel is an old (DEC times) but very clever protocol for displaying 6-bit graphic
What “sixel” means
WikipediaSixel, short for "six pixels", is a bitmap graphics format supported by terminals and printers from DEC. It consists of a pattern six pixels high and one wide, resulting in 64 possible patterns. Each possible pattern is assigned an ASCII character, making the sixels easy to transmit on 7-bit serial links.
“Sixel” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sixel across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sixel 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/sixel