#lurking
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #lurking from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #lurking
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 02:24 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.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-15 02:24 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 02:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~33951 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (32) · Lithuanian (1) · Italian (1) · German (1) · French (1) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
While being mostly offline, or at least non-posting much online for a while, I like the idea of me being actively practicing a lifestyle I already had mastered in the past, namely #lurking as a lifestyle. Just elegant lurking like Aristotle
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What “lurking” means
Wiktionary · Wikipedialurking
- verbTo remain concealed in order to ambush.
- nounThe act of one who lurks.
In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community who observes, but does not participate by posting or commenting. The exact definition depends on context. Lurkers make up a large proportion of all users in online communities. Lurking allows users to learn the conventions of an online community before they participate, improving their socialization when they eventually "de-lurk". However, a lack of social contact while lurking sometimes causes loneliness or apathy among
“Lurker” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#lurking across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #lurking 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/lurking