#netcat
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #netcat from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #netcat
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 06:02 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-07-27 06:02 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 06:02 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~24099 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (29) · German (4) · Russian (3) · Italian (1) · French (1) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
#netcat is both really popular with #Linux users, but also quite the train-wreck. There's multiple mainstream implementations, they all have incompatible commandline interfaces, two of them have been unmaintained for 20 years and lack ipv6
#Netcat #Caturday
#Netcat is fun! #blogging #sysadmin #infosec #CLI #100DaysToOffload [25/100] #weblogPoMo2024 [13/31] https://lazybear.io/posts/netcat-is-fun
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/netcat