#netnews
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #netnews from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #netnews
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 12:21 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 12:21 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 12:21 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 33 public posts (spanning ~32043 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (28) · Portuguese (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
i use #Debian #Linux #email #gpg #Thunderbird #Firefox #LibreOffice closed source only in VMs (and phone😖) #mastodon #cryptpad #irc #otr #hexchat #threema #nextcloud #mediawiki #sourcehut #Codeberg #Forgejo in the past #netnews maybe in fu
When fixing moderator mail addresses, I just learned that I have been administrating a Usenet server for ~30 years now; been moderating nl.* groups for ~25 years and have been hierarchy admin for 18 years. #usenet #netnews #oldfart
Open Usenet Server : NNTP server with web-based admin interface. "A modern easy-to-setup NNTP server based on INN." https://github.com/tgeek77/OpenUsenetServer #usenet #nntp #netnews #networknews #decentralized #peering #retro #networks #ne
What “netnews” means
WikipediaUsenet, short for User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages to one or more topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet forums that were developed af
“Usenet” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#netnews across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #netnews 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/netnews