#tarpitting
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #tarpitting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #tarpitting
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-19 04:44 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-19 04:44 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 04:44 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~4.5 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 3
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Top of the latest posts
@clock @lostgen If AI crawlers/scrapers don't obey my robots.txt (most of them don't), then I feel it is my moral duty to feed them poison instead of quality content they already have. (Wikipedia is one of the first sources LLMs are trained
@chpietsch What do you achieve by serving them poison? What do you achieve by serving them quality content they already have? @clock #tarpitting #nepenthes
What “tarpitting” means
WikipediaA tarpit is a service on a computer system that purposely delays incoming connections. The technique was developed as a defense against spam and computer worms. The idea is that network abuses such as spamming or broad scanning are less effective, and therefore less attractive, if they take too long. The concept is analogous with a tar pit, in which animals can get bogged down and slowly sink under the surface, like in a swamp.
“Tarpit (networking)” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#tarpitting across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #tarpitting 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/tarpitting