#gatekeepers
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #gatekeepers from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #gatekeepers
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 2026-09-11 13:02 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 2026-09-11 13:02 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-11 13:02 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~11414 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (34) · Spanish (2) · Dutch (1) · Italian (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.5
Top of the latest posts
It felt like kindergarten to do it but this week we @edri +others filed a complaint against #Google with the @EUCommission for breach of the #DigitalMarketsAct. Despite the #DMA's clear obligation for #gatekeepers to allow you to uninstall
For those attending #FOSDEM and interested in the topic: make sure to attend Marc's talk "Fear and Loathing in the App Stores: when FLOSS principles collide with the Gatekeeper interests" (https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/TYZH97-fear-
Being sucked into #monopoly enforcement against #gatekeepers around the world has given me direct insight into why #AntiTrust enforcement is so important economically: monopolists spend huge sums on PR to sell things that people do not want
What “gatekeepers” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediagatekeepers
- nounA person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate or bouncer, or more abstractly, controls who is granted access to a category or status. Gatekeepers assess who is "in or out", in the classic words of management scholar Kurt Lewin.
“Gatekeeper” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#gatekeepers across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #gatekeepers 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/gatekeepers