#simile
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #simile 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 2026-10-21 01:09 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-10-21 01:09 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-21 01:09 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~23923 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00
Languages: English (39)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
“The full moon filtered through the fabric of the tent like boiling coffee through a sock.” #RobertoBolaño #literaryquote #quote #simile
This week's newsletter: https://listmonk.bodhiberlin.org/archive/2026-w37 We'll be focusing on two short #suttas from the #SaṃyuttaNikāya this week, specifically the #similes of the beauty queen and the six animals. #TuesdayNightMeditation
Some of my ideas have the approximate life expectancy of a cute and tiny ice sculpture of a panda if it fell into a freshly made steaming mug of Earl Grey tea. Others, like this one, last long enough for me to write them down.
What “simile” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediasimile/ˈsɪməli/
- nounA figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.
A simile is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things, using wording to explicitly make the comparison. It is usually understood specifically to entail figurative comparison: thus "a wolf is like a dog" is merely a literal comparison, whereas the figurative "a man is like a wolf" is a simile. In the words of Michael Israel, Jennifer Riddle Harding, and Vera Tobin, "basically, a simile is just a way of describing a target by asserting its similarity to some unexpected
“Simile” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#simile across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #simile 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/simile