#sentience
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sentience from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sentience
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-19 00:47 UTC2 uses by 2 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-19 00:47 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 00:47 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3508 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (21) · French (16)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117412868905734653 Well said, @emilymbender. For years I’ve been giving a lecture on ethics in AI and our relationships with machines. Your point about projecting interpretations is so spot on
@mcnado @Brian I don't value life in and of itself I value sentience, life is just a neat trick to duplciate dna, sentience is what is morally relevant. Plants have no nervous system or pain receptors, plants respond reflexively to basic st
I'm starting to really question the Mirror Test of sentience. I haven't done the classic version with the sticky dot on Mr. Kelly. But what I have done is sneak up behind him or reach for him from behind while he's looking into a mirror. He
What “sentience” means
WikipediaSentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. Some theorists define sentience exclusively as the capacity for valenced mental experiences, such as pain and pleasure.
“Sentience” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sentience across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sentience 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/sentience