#sneakernet
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sneakernet from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sneakernet
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 2026-10-21 07:49 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 2026-10-21 07:49 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-21 07:49 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~17256 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (25) · French (9) · Spanish (2) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.2
Top of the latest posts
@jonty Did they shake hands at all? You might have seen a #sneakernet #tls (Transport Layer-Cake Security) handshake, where both parties presented their Public Cakes (their corresponding Private Cakes were safe at home).
How do you build a USB #sneakernet with #p2panda? Or sync over #LoRa .. or #OCapN? Read the new blog post about our latest work around alternative sync protocols: 🐼 https://p2panda.org/2026/09/16/dash-router-sync-api.html As part of our @P
With all the attacks on people communicating over the Internet lately -- from Iran out-and-out shutting down Internet access during protests, to Chat Control and social-media age limits -- I've been thinking about Usenet a lot. Thirty years
What “sneakernet” means
WikipediaSneakernet, also called sneaker net, is an informal term for the transfer of electronic information by physically moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives between computers, rather than transmitting it over a computer network. Sneakernets enable data transfer through physical means and offer a solution in the presence of network connections that lack reliability; however, a consequence of this physical transfer is high latency, due
“Sneakernet” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sneakernet across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sneakernet 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/sneakernet