#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.

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.5
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 07:53 UTC
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0 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 2026-07-27 07:53 UTC
#newsgroupsite
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 07:53 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~22569 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (25) · German (4) · Spanish (1) · French (1)

Avg boosts / post: 2.4

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

    Colin Macleod@[email protected]♥ 9↻ 22026-02-02 19:12 UTCView post →

  • I just made another update to https://newsgrouper.org my web interface to Usenet. If you have registered to post you can now set a Face and/or X-Face icon for your posts by uploading a suitable image in the Preferences section. X-Face image

    Colin Macleod@[email protected]♥ 3↻ 32026-01-21 15:18 UTCView post →

  • Back to basics, so with all the web has become, I'm looking at the past, where newsgroups, private BBS and generally isolated sites and systems ruled. Does anyone have any that are still alive? #1990internet #newsgroups #bbs #bulletinboards

    Chain@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 32026-06-18 08:52 UTCView post →

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