#crippleware
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #crippleware from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #crippleware
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 2026-08-01 04:05 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 2026-08-01 04:05 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #crippleware.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-01 04:05 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 21 public posts (spanning ~63982 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (16) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 4.1
Top of the latest posts
Any Wemo switch is now #crippleware Instead of opening up the source code, #Belkin has decided to brick every device you're already paid for. @pluralistic was right...any company that does not support interop should not be trusted.
@rimu So, these are 3000 PieFed sites launched that include organizations promoting terrorist propaganda from organizations like Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, ISIL, and politicized news outlets like Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Fox, and NPR? I'm almost ce
Why exactly are we even still handing these #AAA #publishers money for their #crippleware anyway? Just give me the game I paid for and don't annoy me with your anti-features all the time. (In fact I as the player should get paid for having
What “crippleware” means
WikipediaCrippleware is computer software or hardware that has been intentionally designed to have some of its features disabled or not working to its full capability until payment of some kind is rendered despite the internal presence of these features behind the scenes.
“Crippleware” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#crippleware across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #crippleware 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/crippleware