#shrinkflation

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #shrinkflation from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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2
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
2
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.3
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 09:48 UTC
0
10-08
0
10-09
0
10-10
0
10-11
0
10-12
1
10-13
1
10-14

2 uses by 2 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 2026-10-14 09:48 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 09:48 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2793 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (26) · German (10) · Danish (1) · Dutch (1) · French (1) · Italian (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.7

Top of the latest posts

  • Se non ve ne siete ancora accorti, non avete ancora mangiato un gelato quest’anno. Altroconsumo rileva aumenti fino al +40% per il gelato sfuso e +70% per quello confezionato. Federconsumatori conferma rincari su stecchi e vaschette e shrin

    Emanuele@[email protected]♥ 5↻ 52026-07-01 11:52 UTCView post →
  • Cereal in English puts just a little less in the box than cereal in Spanish for the same price. There's my argument, burn it all down. #Shrinkflation #GroceryShopping #Kelloggs #FrostedFlakes #Zucaritas

    Rob Vincent 🎙️@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 02026-08-28 00:08 UTCView post →
  • Ah ja, stimmt: So eine Tafel Milka Schokolade hat jetzt 90 Gramm. #Shrinkflation

    Möterhead@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 02026-09-04 21:58 UTCView post →

What “shrinkflation” means

Wikipedia

In economics, shrinkflation, also known as package downsizing, weight-out, and price pack architecture is the reduction of available products, in size or quantity, while the prices remain the same. The word is a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation and was coined as the counterpart to economic inflation, wherein prices rise while the product remains unchanged. A related term, skimpflation, involves a reformulation or other reduction in quality.

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#shrinkflation across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #shrinkflation 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/shrinkflation