#howtothing
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #howtothing from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-30 05:53 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-30 05:53 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~24245 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 3.1
Top of the latest posts
I don't do these often (only once or twice a year, if at all), but since I just lost the main sponsor of my open source work (forever grateful for their long & major support!), I urgently need to reach out to other people (especially users)
@toxi Many thanks, Karsten! See https://wiki.ralfbarkow.ch/view/howtothing-001/view/karsten-schmidt/view/derived-views-of-pure-data #FederatedWiki #HowToThing
@khinsen @toxi See "Output of Function toDot" #FederatedWiki #HowToThing
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