#description
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #description from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #description
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 2026-09-26 13:24 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 13:24 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 13:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8536 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (35) · French (4) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
My first thought was: gray text is explaining what the toggle does. But then I read the text and it made no sense: if I _restrict_ sharing, it will allow people to save and forward? Okay. Second idea. It might be explaining current state of
Reminder- adding #alttext is a great idea! I know it takes time, but adding a #description to your images is super helpful!
Is calling out horseshit ai descriptions in alt texts worth it on picture posts? #Poll #picture #description
What “description” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediadescription/dɪˈskɹɪpʃən/
- nounA sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. It is one of four rhetorical modes, along with exposition, argumentation, and narration.
“Description” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#description across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #description 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/description