#optout
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #optout from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #optout
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 02:25 UTC4 uses by 2 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 02:25 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 02:25 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~876 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (37) · French (1) · Spanish (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 8.2
Top of the latest posts
This new "tags.pub" instance that just blasts out boosts of anything with a matching hashtag is ... annoying. Pointless. Practically abuse. It just boosted a post of mine with *seven* different accounts. Didn't ask for permission to follow/
@joergi "Just opt out" is also the refrain of the unsolicited commercial emailer, the "AI" content scraper, and the politicians who exempt themselves from unsolicited advertising rules. It is my firm opinion that one should not *have* to op
Lemme use a metaphor. Comic books are opt-in. I've lived more than 40 years on this planet (and less than 50 ... I'm very nearly smack dab in the middle of that). Never once has a legitimate comic book subscribed me to it without me taking
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/optout