#Austerity

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

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7
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
6
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-09 18:50 UTC
2
09-03
2
09-04
0
09-05
1
09-06
0
09-07
0
09-08
2
09-09

7 uses by 6 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 2026-09-09 18:50 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 18:50 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~835 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 02:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (35) · German (3) · Dutch (2)

Avg boosts / post: 1.8

Top of the latest posts

  • The #Democrats, faithfully copying Reaganite politics, have also embraced #austerity as a fake virtue but they're more calculated and snide about it, like when Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi roll their eyes publicly and say things like "y

    Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen@[email protected]102026-08-15 02:36 UTCView post →
  • How very remarkable that COVID-19 [sic: formatting] is why 'we are experiencing high demand', while also justifying no health restrictions anywhere because 'the pandemic is over' [sic]. So remarkable, in fact, that _upon it, I'm right now r

    Mx Verda@[email protected]102026-08-06 08:38 UTCView post →
  • "The original sin of #austerity was of course to cut government spending in a recession, going against basic macroeconomic teaching understood since Keynes. We now know that policy, as well as delaying and probably diminishing the recovery

    Police State UK@[email protected]012026-09-09 16:50 UTCView post →

What “austerity” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

austerity/ɔˈstɛɹɪti/

  • nounSeverity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Austerity is a set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both. There are three primary types of austerity measures: higher taxes to fund spending, raising taxes while cutting spending, and lower taxes and lower government spending. Austerity measures are often used by governments that find it difficult to borrow or meet their existing obligations to pay back loans. The measures are meant to reduce th

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#austerity across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

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