#newsgroups
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #newsgroups from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #newsgroups
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 05:27 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 2026-10-18 05:27 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 05:27 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~22497 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (24) · German (3) · Italian (2) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.3
Top of the latest posts
@timbray That's my site. Yes, Usenet is "not dead yet" - https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/alive-dead-im-not-dead-yet-gif-13642579 . These days most of the traffic is for "dodgy downloads" - binary files of problematic provenance. But a few dino
@Lydie Yes I still use Usenet, principally for comp.lang.tcl but not only. I also created a web gateway to make it easy to access Usenet without needing to set up newsreading client software - https://newsgrouper.org #usenet #newsgroups
@haitchfive :-) It's a kind of legend / story / fiction that was discussed back in the mid-90s on comp.sys.amiga back in the day! #Usenet #Newsgroups #Amiga #Blazemonger
What “newsgroups” means
Wiktionary · Wikipedianewsgroups
- nounA repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are not only discussion groups or conversations, but also a repository to publish articles, start developing tasks like creating Linux, sustain mailing lists and file uploading. This is attributed to the protocol, which has no article size limit - determined by the providers. In the late 1980s, Usenet articles were often limited by the providers to 60
“Usenet newsgroup” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#newsgroups across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #newsgroups 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/newsgroups