#captchas
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #captchas from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #captchas
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 2026-10-21 23:49 UTC2 uses by 2 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 2026-10-21 23:49 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-21 23:49 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~13394 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (31) · German (5) · Spanish (3) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
Seit #KI auch #Captchas lösen kann, kommt bei uns wieder mehr Junk an. Kontaktformulare machen echt keinen Spaß mehr. Highlight: haarsträubender Mist zu "AI Slop"-Projekten auf GitHub, gern von One-Man-Shows. Wir erschlagen das jetzt mit de
Bonus #Joke My daughter just yelled at me in Spanish. I yelled back in Klingon. I'm confused. She's terrified. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.
Today's test of my humanity got me wondering: why don't we have CAPTCHAs that ask us to select all squares with hand-painted signs in them? Or with ghost signs, or with a sign painter working, or with a mahl stick? The time has come to end
What “captchas” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediacaptchas
- nounA computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that he/she is a human and not a computer program.
A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge–response Turing test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.
“CAPTCHA” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#captchas across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #captchas 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/captchas