#bzip
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #bzip from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #bzip
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 2026-09-13 00:01 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-13 00:01 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 00:01 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 6 public posts (spanning ~21067 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (5)
Avg boosts / post: 2
Top of the latest posts
New #blog post: Unix Data Compression Shootout https://rldane.space/unix-data-compression-shootout.html 881 words cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton
R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou:@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 52025-05-23 14:29 UTCView post →I love playing around with #compression In this case, it's all text-based data in csv and xml formats. Size: 32,696,320 202411.tar 4,384,020 202411.tar.bz2 4,015,912 202411.tar.zst 3,878,583 202411.tar.bz3 3,730,416 202411.tar.xz zstd was i
“And Ode To Bzip”, Alisa Sireneva (https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/an-ode-to-bzip/). Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377998 On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ub7a5k/ode_bzip On /r/programming: https://old.reddit.com/r/programmi
What “bzip” means
Wikipediabzip2 is a file format and a file compression program. The program uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm to compress and decompress a single file using the bzip2 file format. libbzip2 is a lossless data compression software library used by the bzip2 program.
“Bzip2” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#bzip across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #bzip 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/bzip