#frotz
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #frotz from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #frotz
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 2026-08-03 10:00 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 2026-08-03 10:00 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-03 10:00 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 8 public posts (spanning ~52195 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (6) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 3.8
Top of the latest posts
Anyone else out there interested in classic #text-based #InteractiveFiction? Like the old #Infocom #games. I know there's an #IF community out there — are you on Mastodon? #TextAdventures #AdventureGames #Zork #Inform #xyzzy #ClassicGames #
ok, this is a bit weird i guess, but i'm just going to throw it out there, in case anyone is listening.. just going through some memories, and it has led me to trying to find someone. not for any particular reason, just curiosity i suppose.
compiled #inform7 version 10 git on the #beepy it took about an hour. now i can not only #frotz on it, but can also #glulxe my own stuff in the sun. ;)
What “frotz” means
WikipediaThe Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler fo
“Z-machine” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#frotz across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #frotz 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/frotz