#champerty
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #champerty from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-11 22:36 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 2026-09-11 22:36 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #champerty.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-11 22:36 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~25561 hours).
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Languages: English (3)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
If your group wins a lawsuit that prevents 13.6m tons of carbon emissions every year, it will get 13.6 million credits for every year that plant would have run. That would certainly drive the commercial imaginations of many otherwise disint
Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026) https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/champerty-loves-company/
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial]@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-05-06 10:15 UTCView post →Medieval courts called this #champerty; today, we call it #LitigationFinance: investing in other peoples' grievances against deep-pocketed monsters, in the expectation of reaping huge cash payouts. On paper, litigation finance seems like a
What “champerty” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaChamperty and maintenance are doctrines in common law jurisdictions that aim to preclude frivolous litigation:Maintenance is the intermeddling of a disinterested party to encourage a lawsuit. It is: "A taking in hand, a bearing up or upholding of quarrels or sides, to the disturbance of the common right." Champerty is the financial support, by a party not naturally concerned in the suit, of a plaintiff that allows them to prosecute a lawsuit on condition that, if it be brought to a successful i
“Champerty and maintenance” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#champerty across platforms
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