#Authentication
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #Authentication from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #authentication
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-09 23:25 UTC5 uses by 5 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 23:25 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 23:25 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1154 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (34) · Russian (3) · German (2) · Chinese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.4
Top of the latest posts
Does anyone still use Dropbox? Dropbox breach seemingly caused by egregious authentication failure - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/01/dropbox-login-breach-seemingly-caused-by-egregious-authentication-failure/ #Dropbox #Breach #Securit
Google-synced passkeys can be hijacked by malware already running on Windows, researchers found, without breaking passkey cryptography. 🔐 Three “Pass-ta-key” attacks can abuse device trust, recovery, or extract the master key. ⚠️ 🔗 https:
I’m looking for a good alternative to Google Authenticator for Two Factor Authentication. What authenticator app are you using, and would you recommend it? And why would you recomend it? I have not experienced any errors and its really work
What “authentication” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaauthentication
- nounSomething which validates or confirms the authenticity of something
Authentication is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicating a person or thing's identity, authentication is the process of verifying that identity.
“Authentication” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#authentication across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #authentication 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/authentication