#openfirmware
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #openfirmware from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #openfirmware
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 14:38 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.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 14:38 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 14:38 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~26816 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 23:00
Languages: English (35) · Norwegian Bokmål (3) · Spanish (1) · Norwegian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
I can't believe the discussions I'm having today make me wish we used #OpenFirmware instead of #UEFI on x86.
The Digital Lease: Why You No Longer Own Your Hardware 4,199 words, 22 minutes read time. I recently sat down to perform a simple, logical task: backing up my Android phone directly to my personal computer. It is a procedure I have executed
If you are at #39c3 and are curious about how kernel and firmware use #OpenFirmware device tree to discover hardware and how @barebox (and other bootloaders) use it when booting Linux, come by tomorrow at 13:00 at the open source firmware a
What “openfirmware” means
WikipediaOpen Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It originated at Sun Microsystems where it was known as OpenBoot, and has been used by multiple vendors including Sun, Apple, IBM and ARM.
“Open Firmware” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#openfirmware across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #openfirmware 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/openfirmware