#ask

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ask from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Own #ask

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.

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19
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
14
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.1/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
—
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-08 19:12 UTC
3
09-02
1
09-03
5
09-04
6
09-05
0
09-06
3
09-07
1
09-08

19 uses by 14 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-08 19:12 UTC
#AskFedi
149 uses · 137 accounts / 7d
#AskLemmy
44 uses · 42 accounts / 7d
#AskNostr
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#ask_fedi
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#AskDocs
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#AskEditor
7 uses · 4 accounts / 7d
#AskLobsters
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#askExperts
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#askatp
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#askfediverse
5 uses · 5 accounts / 7d
#ask13
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#askingfedi
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-08 19:12 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~674 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (38) · Turkish (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.3

Top of the latest posts

  • Lessons learned from the problem solving of “fixing” a recent “broken record”. In summary: 1. sometimes waiting can (partially) fix a problem or reduce its severity 2. applying reasoning and practical math & science (e.g. mechanics & acoust

    Tantek Çelik@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-08-23 22:23 UTCView post →

  • What are you doing this week? https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://lobste.rs/s/xm0hkw/what_are_you_doing_this_week

    Lobsters [Unofficial]@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-09-07 10:33 UTCView post →

  • What are you doing this week? by @caius https://lobste.rs/s/xm0hkw #ask #programming

    Lobsters@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-09-07 13:15 UTCView post →

What “ask” means

Wiktionary

ask/ˈask/

  • nounAn act or instance of asking.
  • verbTo request (information, or an answer to a question).
Full entry on Wiktionary →

#ask across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #ask 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.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

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/ask