#newb
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #newb from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #newb
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 2026-09-10 22:03 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-10 22:03 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-10 22:03 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~28738 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (37) · French (1) · Dutch (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
Hello. VE2UWY here, but you are more likely to have worked me as N5UWY. The plastic film is still on the VE2 call, but I figured since this is my first venture into Mastodonia, what the heck. #newb #Introduction
People joke about installing Python environments (https://xkcd.com/1987/), but I'm looking at #Typescript and... am I misunderstanding, but `sudo apt install npm` (on #Ubuntu2204) gives me a #node version (12.22) that isn't compatible with
Looking at it first time today. (svg so responds to [ Ctrl + '+' ] didnt think to zoom it before) Wow! percentages on everything. I'm amazed! Astounded truly. 140 lines to achieve all of that? And I'm sure I'm doing it all sorts of wrong. B
What “newb” means
WikipediaNewbie is a slang term for a novice, newcomer, or somebody inexperienced in a given profession or activity. In particular, it may refer to a new user of computers, and often concerns Internet activity, such as online gaming or Linux use.
“Newbie” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#newb across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #newb 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/newb