#hostsfile
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hostsfile from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #hostsfile
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 2026-07-29 19:04 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-29 19:04 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-29 19:04 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~55374 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
Oh, bless Adobe's heart 😂. They've decided the most sophisticated way to check if you have #Creative #Cloud is by sneaking around in your hosts file like a #digital #raccoon rifling through a trash can. 🦝 Because why use normal detection
FWIW here are my entries for #hostsfile to get rid of embedded #Instagram content on websites. (So if you read some news article that embeds it, Meta servers don't get pinged.) 127.0.0.100 instagram.com www.instagram.com 127.0.0.100 cdninst
@lattera Do you know where those two commands NXDOMAIN and NOERROR are documented. Unfortunately, the manual via `man hosts' has no mention of them. #hosts #etcHosts #hostsFile #NXDomain #NOError
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