#freedesktop
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #freedesktop from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #freedesktop
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 2026-09-27 02:34 UTC3 uses by 3 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 2026-09-27 02:34 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 02:34 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3305 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (25) · Spanish (9) · German (3) · Italian (1) · French (1) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.4
Top of the latest posts
II complain about #freedesktop GitLab reliability sometimes but it could be worse. We could be on GitHub.
#GNOME 51 will include support for custom pointer input acceleration profiles! This was done in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4296 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/99 The
I'm often amused by people in forums and social media (especially Reddit) ranting that their disappointment in #GNOME is immeasurable and the Linux desktop is ruined, while wondering why "inexplicably" the vast majority of Linux distros cho
What “freedesktop” means
Wikipediafreedesktop.org (fd.o), formerly X Desktop Group (XDG), is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free-software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) and Wayland on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Although freedesktop.org produces specifications for interoperability, it is not a formal standards body.
“Freedesktop.org” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#freedesktop across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #freedesktop 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/freedesktop