#deflate
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #deflate 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 · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 04:57 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 04:57 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 04:57 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 38 public posts (spanning ~77095 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (22) · German (6) · Russian (3) · Chinese (2) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1) · Norwegian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.2
Top of the latest posts
New tool: upload a ZIP file, get a smaller ZIP file back. Primarily relies on better Deflate compression, but also has a few small tricks to save bytes. https://evanhahn.com/uploads/2026-05-16-zip-shrinker/ Read more here: https://evanhahn.
#Gzip 1.14 has been released (#GNU / #GNUZip / #Gz / #TarGz / #FileArchiver / #DataCompression / #DEFLATE / #LempelZiv / #LZ77 / #LempelZiv77 / #HuffmanCode) https://gnu.org/software/gzip/
It is remarkable how little the internet knows about parallel #deflate #compression The best guide on how to do it can be found in a massive comment in the pigz source code. It's not really that hard once you realise that you can concatenat
What “deflate” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediadeflate/diːˈfleɪt/
- verbTo remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre
In computing, Deflate is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. It was designed by Phil Katz, for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool. Deflate was later specified in Request for Comments (RFC) 1951 (1996).
“Deflate” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#deflate across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #deflate 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/deflate