#rhetorical
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #rhetorical 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 2026-10-15 16:23 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 2026-10-15 16:23 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 16:23 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~17045 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 23:00
Languages: English (38) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.1
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I bet lots of folks self censor based on a few experiences like this, and carry on doing it even when there's no actual censoring happening (it's just easier to assume it than find out after the fact). The "what is going on?!?" feeling is p
Ok but why do all modern messaging and commenting systems refuse to support editing after you post? Or, if they have them, it's four clicks deep in a sub menu? I always spot a typo after hitting submit! And autocorrect is just getting worse
*The "Artificial Intelligence" is an old-school tech scheme that has failed a great many times in the past, but the "Super Intelligence" cannot fail; it can only BE failed, by its miserable and unworthy meat-proxies #political #rhetorical #
What “rhetorical” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediarhetorical
- adjectivePart of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse (trivium) of classical antiquity, along with grammar and logic/dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or writers use to inform, persuade, and motivate their audiences. Rhetoric also provides heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations.
“Rhetoric” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#rhetorical across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #rhetorical 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/rhetorical