#TheMachineStops
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #TheMachineStops from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-29 04:05 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-29 04:05 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 16 public posts (spanning ~32392 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 03:00
Languages: English (10) · German (4) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.6
Top of the latest posts
We're thrilled to see EM Forster's short story "The Machine Stops" available now on Project Gutenberg (@gutenberg_org) https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890 This is thanks to the hard work of the people at @DProofreaders. Signing up to be a pr
Just finished this short story by EM #Forster – #TheMachineStops. Published in 1928 it resonates with both #LuxuryAutomatedCommunism and #TechnoUtopianism narratives with a dystopia of a future where humans have swapped connection and reali
#EMForster's #TheMachineStops was written in 1909 (114 years ago) and it is prescient of today's world. It is downright scary how right Forster's was in how humanity is treating itself and its dependence on machines. https://www.cs.ucdavis.
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