#AlternativeSocialMedia
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #AlternativeSocialMedia from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #alternativesocialmedia
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 2026-08-06 06:29 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-08-06 06:29 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #alternativesocialmedia.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-06 06:29 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~12050 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (31) · German (2) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 4.6
Top of the latest posts
Hey! If you're new to the fediverse and curious about it, may I humbly suggest my new book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges? https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com/ It offers a history of Mastodon and discusses the highs and lows of content moder
Sometimes, folks ask me why I've been advocating for #alternativeSocialMedia for over a decade now: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
Finally here, now reading: Move slowly and build bridges - Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media by Robert W. Gehl @rwg https://www.moveslowlybuildbridges.com/ #mastodon #fediverse #bookstodon #AlternativeSoc
#alternativesocialmedia across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #alternativesocialmedia 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/alternativesocialmedia