#nvi
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #nvi from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #nvi
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 2026-09-28 13:19 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 13:19 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #nvi.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 13:19 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~4370 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00
Languages: English (33) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 2.4
Top of the latest posts
In my faffing about with text editors, I ran into something kind of funny: So, there's not a straightforward way to install vi (not vim) on termux. There is, however, a copy of ed in the base install. And so I started poking at it. Amusingl
Best long term viable vim replacement? #vi #nvi #vim #neovim #editors
In #openbsd what is called #vi is actually #nvi, and when you install #nvi from ports, it is #nvi2. To danes with our national characters æøå we need the latter because #vi prints two byte hex sequences for æ, ø, or å. #vi handles them corr
What “nvi” means
Wikipedianvi is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley text editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD and, later, Unix systems. It was originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD).
“Nvi” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#nvi across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #nvi 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/nvi