#abstention
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #abstention 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 2026-09-10 16:09 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 2026-09-10 16:09 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-10 16:09 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~33283 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: French (35) · English (4) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
1/2 Sur l'abstention, encore. "Plus l’extrême droite se rapproche du pouvoir, moins l’abstention peut être pensée uniquement comme un refus symbolique du système. Car ce qui se joue dans les urnes n’est plus seulement la couleur du prochain
1/5 Au sujet de l'abstention : "En politique comme ailleurs, une stratégie ne se juge pas seulement à ses intentions, mais à ses effets." #L’abstention devient alors stratégie étrange qui consiste à se retirer du rapport de force électoral
"Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs" "Nous ne pourrons pas dire que nous ne savions pas" "Ne faisons pas que le XXIe siècle soit celui d'un crime de l'humanité contre la vie" https://youtu.be/D6tRRetM4Mw?si=ojl8Y3joMXjTt-ek Chira
What “abstention” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaAbstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a voter casts a ballot willfully made invalid by marking it wrongly or by not marking anything at all. A "blank voter" has voted, although their vote may be considered a spoilt vote, depending on each legislation, while an abstaining voter has not vote
“Abstention” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#abstention across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #abstention 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/abstention