#shareware
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #shareware from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #shareware
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 2026-10-20 05:35 UTC3 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 2026-10-20 05:35 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-20 05:35 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1352 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (6) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.1
Top of the latest posts
昨天「又」花錢註冊一次 #TotalCommander 。 說「又」是因為早在 20 年前就註冊過，這個授權是永久有效、可以一路更新版本、沒有額外功能限制，而且是認實際的「人」而不管同時在多少台電腦上安裝執行的。 換句話說，實際的使用上，我完全沒有必要「又」註冊一次。會這麼做的理由只有兩個： 一是因為這真的是超好用的檔案管理軟體，功能性、擴充性、可自訂性都超強，我從上個世紀還在用 Windows 3.1 就開始使用（當時叫 Windows Commander），作者總是很客氣
What Happened to Shareware? Excerpt: https://deadparrotbbs.com/what-happened-to-shareware/
Update on my #shareware #livestreaming project. I have received confirmation from my friend that, as long as I back up whatever data is currently on his old computer, I can wipe it and press it into service as a retro gaming machine. It's a
What “shareware” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediashareware
- nounA type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.
Shareware is proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the owner. Shareware is often offered as a download from a website. Shareware differs from freeware, which is fully-featured software distributed at no cost to the user but without source code being made available; and free and open-source software, in which the source code is freely av
“Shareware” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#shareware across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #shareware 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/shareware