#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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 15:39 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-10-15 15:39 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 15:39 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~23873 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (25) · German (4) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.1
Top of the latest posts
"Was habt ihr alle gemacht als es noch keine #sozialenMedien gab?" Das hieß früher nur anders, in den 80ern traff man sich in elektronischen #Mailboxen, in den 90ern erst in #Newsgroups, dann in chats zb dem #IRC und später dann zusätzlich
@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
Just polled my software team: without googling or asking, have you heard of #copyfail ? if so, do you know what it is sufficiently to explain it to a colleague? Not a single hand. We make embedded #linux devices. ( yes, ours are affected.)
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