#slopsquatting
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #slopsquatting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #slopsquatting
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 13:30 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-10-15 13:30 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #slopsquatting.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 13:30 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 26 public posts (spanning ~13200 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (17) · Russian (8) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.4
Top of the latest posts
En qué consiste el Slopsquatting: Un desarrollador se apoya en una IA (LLM) para generar código para su proyecto. Pongamos por ejemplo que usa JavaScript. La IA se inventa un paquete de npm que en realidad no existe. Pongamos que lo ha llam
**Check this out: techno feudalism, chatons, slopsquatting and more (9. 8. 2025)** The future is not self-hosted: https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted(Self-sustainable organic farms (and self-hosted IT stuff) are a
#AI #code often includes references to non-existent dependencies. These references are commonly called “#hallucinations”. A new type of #attack has arisen that involves an attacker registering a package whose name is frequently hallucinated
What “slopsquatting” means
WikipediaSlopsquatting is a type of cybersquatting. It is the practice of registering a non-existent software package name that a large language model (LLM) may hallucinate in its output, whereby someone unknowingly may copy-paste and install the software package without realizing it is fake. Attempting to install a non-existent package should result in an error, but some have exploited this for their gain in the form of typosquatting.
“Slopsquatting” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#slopsquatting across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #slopsquatting 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/slopsquatting