#pain

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #pain from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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99
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
20
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.2/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-07 16:43 UTC
14
09-01
10
09-02
15
09-03
16
09-04
19
09-05
14
09-06
11
09-07

99 uses by 20 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 2026-09-07 16:43 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-07 16:43 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~257 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (33) · German (4) · Polish (1) · Italian (1) · French (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1.8

Top of the latest posts

  • I've basically lost the last two days to pain. The spinal procedures I had don't seem to be working. Doesn't give me much hope for the future, a future in which I literally can't do any "normal" things, in which I have to rely on someone el

    Bette@[email protected]102026-09-06 19:40 UTCView post →
  • Die schwedische Band PAIN veröffentlicht die neue Single "I Don't Give A Fukk". Der Song verbindet mahlende Gitarren mit elektronischen Beats und Peter Tägtgrens Gesang. #pain https://www.burnyourears.de/news/54988-peter-taegtgrens-pain-sin

    BurnYourEars Webzine@[email protected]102026-08-28 20:31 UTCView post →
  • "It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well." Hearing Taylor Swift's lament evokes my own grief about the loss of meeting in person. https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2021/11/i-remember-it-all-too-well

    Adrian Segar@[email protected]002026-09-07 14:30 UTCView post →

What “pain” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

pain/peɪn/

  • nounAn ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  • verbTo hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Pain is a distressing bodily feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage."

Pain” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#pain across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #pain 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/pain