#pedantry
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #pedantry 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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 18:43 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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 18:43 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 18:43 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~7342 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (39)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
It is somehow pleasing that both "minute" and "second" are among those few words that hyphenate differently (at least in British English) depending on their meanings: • mi-nute (tiny) / min-ute (60 sec-onds) • se-cond (transfer temporarily)
PSA: It’s “toeing the line”, not “towing the line”. The metaphor maybe comes from sports like darts, where standing with feet correctly placed is important. Edit: @nolitimere suggests the origin may be nautical: see their toot below. That f
7 years later I'm still following the teachings of my mentor @drj Including organising python imports as ``` # standard lib imports # third-party dependencies # own package imports ``` each in alphabetical order. Does anyone else do this? A
What “pedantry” means
WikipediaPedantry is an excessive concern with formalism, minor details, and rules that are not important, such as concerns over grammar mistakes.
“Pedantry” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#pedantry across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #pedantry 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/pedantry