#random
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #random 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 2026-09-13 01:10 UTC176 uses by 53 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 01:10 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-13 01:10 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~35 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (39)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
I dunno where this fire is, but my wildfire perimeter bot drew a funny figure doing the cha-cha. #random
September 13 -- `At five P. M., September 13, 1853, I left Boston, in the steamer, for Bangor, by the outside course.` -- “The Maine Woods” by Henry David Thoreau https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42500 #OnThisDay #history #books #today #ran
title: Gerrit Smith artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 source: National Portrait Gallery notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […] #Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #C
What “random” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediarandom/ˈɹændəm/
- nounA roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
- adjectiveHaving unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite patterns or predictability in information. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are, by definition, unpredictable, but if there is a known probability distribution, the frequency of different outcomes over repeated events is predictable. For example, when throwing two dice, the outcome of any particular roll is unp
“Randomness” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#random across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #random 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/random