#omelas
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #omelas from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-17 11:26 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-17 11:26 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 11:26 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~26341 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00
Languages: English (37) · Dutch (1) · Turkish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.4
Top of the latest posts
The tortured child in #Omelas was an intuition pump for you to *believe* a utopia is possible. Ones who walk away from Omelas aren't the morally superior. They aren't the ones who just won't get over the sacrifice. They are the ones who CAN
A privilege to take part in this BBC Free Thinking on Ursula K Le Guin and “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001s619 #UrsulaKLeGuin #Omelas #ScienceFiction
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/#:~:text=You%20are%20going%20to%20run,putting%20kids%20in%20the%20hole.%E2%80%9D if you’ve read Ursula LeGuin’s story, you might want to follow it up with “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Ome
What “omelas” means
Wikipedia"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974.
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#omelas across platforms
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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/omelas