#sudo
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sudo from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sudo
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 2026-09-11 16:47 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 2026-09-11 16:47 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-11 16:47 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2578 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (19) · Portuguese (14) · German (3) · Spanish (1) · Dutch (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
doas vs sudo #doas #sudo #bsd #freebsd #linux #admin #fediadmin #foss #sysadmin #selfhosting #devops #unix #openbsd
when reading READMEs or articles online do you prefer commands as inline code, e.g.`sudo`, or with man page section notation, e.g. sudo(8)? #linux #unix #readme #documentation #commands #markdown #code #sudo
#StarTrek #sudo #Linux
What “sudo” means
Wikipediasudo is a shell command on Unix-like operating systems that enables a user to run a program with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. It originally stood for "superuser do", as that was all it did, and this remains its most common usage; however, the official Sudo project page lists it as "su 'do'". The current Linux manual pages define su as "substitute user", making the modern meaning of sudo "substitute user, do", because sudo can run a command as other users as
“Sudo” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sudo across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sudo 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/sudo