#backfilling
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #backfilling from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #backfilling
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 13:57 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 13:57 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 13:57 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 6 public posts (spanning ~33350 hours).
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Languages: English (6)
Avg boosts / post: 28
Top of the latest posts
Looks like a lot ofpeople are confused/annoyed by Mastodon and many other Fediverse platforms not backfilling old posts when an account is followed. This complete lack of backfilling means that many new accounts or those with few followers
Mastodon admins and techy people, do you want to backfill missing posts that haven't federated to you yet? There's a new tool for this called FediFetcher: ➡️ https://blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher Bear in mind it's still very new and requires tec
If you're frustrated about remote Fediverse profiles looking blank even though they're not blank, I've made a feature request about this on the Mastodon Github: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33978 TL:DR - If a remote profile i
What “backfilling” means
WikipediaThis page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains.
“Glossary of archaeology” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#backfilling across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #backfilling 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/backfilling