#democracy
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #democracy 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 2026-09-07 23:48 UTC357 uses by 270 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 2026-09-07 23:48 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-07 23:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~15 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (34) · German (3) · Italian (1) · Danish (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 6.9
Top of the latest posts
The German state election yesterday is a perfect demonstration of why Proportional Representation (PR) is far superior for democracy than First Past the Post (FPTP). TLDR: Thanks to Proportionality, the AfD only won a minority, not majority
And just to underline the point of betrayal of democratic promises. Here is the seminal tweet from September 21, 2015 just before that year's Canadian Federal Election where the eventual winner, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canad
Our most-shared post today was about this alarming exchange. It captures one of the main reasons we created #LeaveX: to protect democracy from political manipulation and disinformation promoted by tech billionaires through platforms they co
What “democracy” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediademocracy/dɪˈmɒkɹəsi/
- nounRule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).
Democracy is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive elections while more expansive or maximalist definitions link democracy to guarantees of civil liberties and human rights in addition to competitive elections.
“Democracy” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#democracy across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #democracy 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/democracy