#crankyoldman
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #crankyoldman 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 2026-08-01 08:42 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-01 08:42 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-01 08:42 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~27501 hours).
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Languages: English (4)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
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At this point the *most* I hope for from modern authors is readability. And even that comes rarely. Most modern authors are writing on the level of amateurish fanfic. I know there's some good fanfic out there, but it's a tiny minority of th
#CrankyOldMan Peeve of the Day: Heard a NYT nterviewer used the expression “taking a different tact” to mean “using a different approach”. I'm generally a fan of linguistic descriptivism over prescriptivism, and there is no loss of meaning
@TechConnectify maybe a content warning "cranky old man"? But this might seriously limit the range of the posts. Or a hashtag "#CrankyOldMan™"?
#crankyoldman across platforms
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