#protestware

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

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
19
Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 19
1.2
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 19
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-13 13:43 UTC
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0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-13 13:43 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #protestware.

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 13:43 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 19 public posts (spanning ~39134 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 23:00

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Languages: English (17) · Russian (2)

Avg boosts / post: 1.1

Top of the latest posts

  • OK, this veers into deeply technical pretty quickly, but depending on which side of the fence you're on, this is either the funniest protestware thus far, or this is sabotage. jqwik is an #opensource library for testing in #Java, which allo

    MissConstrue@[email protected]20172026-05-29 19:00 UTCView post →
  • Protestware - developers deliberately sabotaging their own software libraries as a means of protest. https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/27/protestware-code-sabotage/ First time I heard this term. Please support your favorite open-source project

    khoi 👨‍💻☕️@khoi312023-09-19 15:23 UTCView post →
  • Protestware: как идейные злоумышленники атакуют ваш код — и как этого избежать Всем привет! Меня зовут Руслан, я инженер в отделе развития процессов безопасности в YADRO. В прошлой статье я рассказывал о рисках транзитивных зависимостей в o

    Habr@[email protected]002026-09-03 12:42 UTCView post →

What “protestware” means

Wikipedia

Hacktivism is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. A form of Internet activism with roots in hacker culture and hacker ethics, its ends are often related to free speech, human rights, or freedom of information movements.

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#protestware across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #protestware 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/protestware