#kludge
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #kludge from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #kludge
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 21:23 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 21:23 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 21:23 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 33 public posts (spanning ~54077 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (29) · Norwegian Nynorsk (1) · Danish (1) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
Top of the latest posts
Aha! Found the perfect replacement adjustment arm for this bicycle trainer! #BikeTooter #repair #kludge
I was really proud of my #homebrew from trash parts through table wireless charging pad for my phone by coworkers says it’s “creepy” 🙄 I’ll get a fabric sticker to cover it because they can’t handle how cyberpunk i am apparently. 🙄🙄🥲🙄
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 26 October 2025 is: #kludge The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word. @ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or
What “kludge” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediakludge/kluːdʒ/
- noun(electronics engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design.
- verbTo build or use a kludge.
A kludge or kluge is a workaround or makeshift solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain. Its only benefit is that it rapidly solves an important problem using available resources. A famous example is the improvised CO2 scrubber that kept the astronauts alive on Apollo 13. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, animation and government. It is similar in meanin
“Kludge” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#kludge across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #kludge 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/kludge