#life
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #life from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #life
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 2026-09-07 09:00 UTC298 uses by 195 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 2026-09-07 09:00 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-07 09:00 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~24 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (34) · Ukrainian (1) · Greek (1) · Spanish (1) · Japanese (1) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.7
Top of the latest posts
QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎 At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young. Probably this: Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Tr
Yes, 💯: “Do People Really Smell Different As They Get Older? The Truth Behind ‘Old Person Smell’”, The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/sep/03/old-person-smell). Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585520 #Lif
Today I'm trying to get to Buxtehude. That means a train to Hamburg-Harburg and then another to Buxtehude with a changeover of eight minutes. Right at the start we had a platform change, for which I was lucky enough to get a notification. A
What “life” means
Wiktionary · Wikipedialife/laɪf/
- nounThe state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
Life is the capacity in matter, formed of one or more units called cells, for processes such as cell signaling, homeostasis, metabolism, cell growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction. All life eventually reaches a state of death. Many philosophical definitions of living systems have been proposed, such as self-organizing systems. Defining life is further complicated by viruses, which replicate only in host cells, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, which could be very
“Life” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#life across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #life 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/life