#Shirky
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #Shirky 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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 14:28 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 · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 14:28 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 14:28 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~40480 hours).
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Languages: English (2) · French (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
“The Shirky principle is the adage that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”. More broadly, it can also be characterized as the adage that “every entity tends to prolong the problem it is solving”.
@toddalstrom I still expect the Christian Democrats party in #Finland to find a way to delay this legislation. Or the ministry of social affairs and health. Because both follow the #Shirky Principle: institutions will try to preserve the pr
[#BotActu] « Vers une société contributive de pair à pair -2 » https://framablog.org/2019/10/21/vers-une-societe-contributive-de-pair-a-pair-2/ #Nonclassé #Torvalds #bauwens #Shirky #Linux #P2P
What “shirky” means
WikipediaClay Shirky is an American pundit, writer, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.
“Clay Shirky” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#shirky across platforms
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