#SysAdmin
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #SysAdmin from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sysadmin
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 2026-09-09 04:45 UTC112 uses by 80 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 2026-09-09 04:45 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 04:45 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~43 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (31) · Romanian (4) · German (3) · Russian (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.9
Top of the latest posts
Receiving requests from clients or colleagues is normal, and I'm happy to solve problems. It's a bit less fun when they email me instructions on what to do - clearly written by an AI - that often don't know the underlying setup. "You need t
@markwyner dear everyone, if you're using ANY password in more than one place, go get a password manager and start using random passwords *everywhere* -- this is not a Mastodon issue, this is a web login issue. I highly recommend Bitwarden.
Nineteen directories, and I still had to look half of them up the first time someone asked me what they do. /proc and /sys are not real files, I learned. The kernel makes them up on the fly to expose what is happening inside it right now. /
What “sysadmin” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediasysadmin
- nounSystems administrator; a person whose job it is to maintain computer or network systems.
An IT administrator, system administrator, sysadmin, or admin is a person who is responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, especially multi-user computers, such as servers. The system administrator seeks to ensure that the uptime, performance, resources, and security of the computers they manage meet the needs of the users, without exceeding a set budget when doing so.
“System administrator” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sysadmin across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sysadmin 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/sysadmin