#defectivebydesign

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #defectivebydesign from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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8
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
8
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.1/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.4
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:42 UTC
1
09-22
1
09-23
1
09-24
2
09-25
1
09-26
1
09-27
1
09-28

8 uses by 8 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:42 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #defectivebydesign.

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:42 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~695 hours).

Top of the latest posts

  • Cutting out DRM-saddled digital goods is possible, and we have a few ideas to get you started: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide #DRM #DefectiveByDesign

    Free Software Foundation@[email protected]♥ 5↻ 22026-09-07 05:00 UTCView post →
  • ‼️ ANDROID CRISIS (109 days left for phase II (-13 days left for phase I)) I am still skeptical on playing with Shizuku, but I have been looking around the app. SwiftBackup alone might be enough for my needs, unless some app really locks do

    seanpm2001 🇺🇦️🇬🇱 :linux: :noai:@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 02026-09-15 06:38 UTCView post →
  • ‼️ ANDROID CRISIS (119 days left for phase II (-3 days left for phase I)) I am currently on day 1 of my semi-vacation. I am still looking for help in backing up appdata, but there isn't much I can do in terms of experimentation until Septem

    seanpm2001 🇺🇦️🇬🇱 :linux: :noai:@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 02026-09-05 05:50 UTCView post →

What “defectivebydesign” means

Wikipedia

Defective by Design (DBD) is a grassroots anti-digital rights management (DRM) initiative by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and CivicActions. Launched in 2006, DBD believes that DRM makes technology deliberately defective, negatively affects digital freedoms, and is "a threat to innovation in media, the privacy of readers, and freedom for computer users." The initiative regularly campaigns against the use of DRM by the media industry and software industry to increase awareness of the anti-DR

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#defectivebydesign across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

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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/defectivebydesign