#DejaNews
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #DejaNews from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #dejanews
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-25 14:24 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-25 14:24 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #dejanews.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-25 14:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 17 public posts (spanning ~25147 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 01:00
Languages: English (16) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
Epilogue: In 2001 #Google bought the #DejaNews #Usenet archive and folded it into #GoogleGroups, but less than a decade later Groups was alternating between usability-destroying tweaks and utter neglect. People still use Groups, but IMHO De
Episode 6: Under Pressure just dropped #RachelMaddow Presents: #DejaNews Podcast https://youtu.be/tJ0u5iszm2Q?si=MnUO448lYuEPEAXG
One or more entities are currently mass-spamming Google Groups using Google accounts. That tsunami is leaking onto what is left of the Usenet newsgroups causing all sorts of spam problems there. The spam probably means some legtimate messag
What “dejanews” means
WikipediaGoogle Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. Until February 2024, the Groups service also provided a gateway to Usenet newsgroups, both reading and posting to them, via a shared user interface. In addition to accessing Google Groups, registered users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere.
“Google Groups” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#dejanews across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #dejanews 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/dejanews