#freenode
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #freenode from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #freenode
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 2026-10-15 17:20 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 2026-10-15 17:20 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 17:20 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~31727 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (35) · German (2) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
I got curious about what happened to #Freenode, and I read an article about it, and... it seems really similar to what happened to #Twitter recently... https://fosspost.org/freenode-collapse/ #TwitterMigration
@NanoRaptor I helped prevent the hostile takeover of #freenode in 2006. Yes, 2006. And did user support largely alone for a year or so.
3 of 3... What we are seeing on #masterdon seems to me to be the beginnings of a similar exodus from Twitter to Mastodon. I suspect it will be a slower process because of the scale of the content provider / user base. There may be a need fo
What “freenode” means
WikipediaFreenode, stylized as freenode and formerly known as Open Projects Network, is an IRC computer network which was previously used to discuss peer-directed projects. Their servers are accessible from the hostname chat.freenode.net, which load balances connections by using round-robin DNS.
“Freenode” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#freenode across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #freenode 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/freenode