#tarpit

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

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
38
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 38
3.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 38

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 08:39 UTC
0
07-21
0
07-22
0
07-23
0
07-24
0
07-25
0
07-26
0
07-27

0 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 2026-07-27 08:39 UTC
#tarpits
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#tarpittingforfreedom
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#ssh_tarpit
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#tarpitch
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#tarpitideas
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#tarpitwarrior
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#tarpitcher
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#tarpitting
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 08:39 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 38 public posts (spanning ~55005 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 02:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (29) · German (2) · French (1) · Russian (1) · Malay (1)

Avg boosts / post: 35

Top of the latest posts

  • This is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more. This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The t

    brett@[email protected]♥ 100↻ 1,0892022-11-23 21:42 UTCView post →

  • Last night I made a fake nuclear reactor control system and put it on the Internet for hackers to find. It's a script implementing the absolute minimum of the VNC protocol to very slowly send a screenshot of a SCADA interface. I'm logging a

    brett@[email protected]♥ 12↻ 2142024-11-13 10:11 UTCView post →

  • #Endlessh is a #publicdomain #SSH #tarpit. Endlessh (Endless SSH) is a barebones SSH server that traps any clients that attempt to connect. When a connection is made Endlessh sends an endless stream of junk data at a slow rate that forces t

    skunksarebetter@skunksarebetter♥ 3↻ 12020-04-09 23:08 UTCView post →

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/tarpit