#usefulidiots
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #usefulidiots 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 2026-09-27 14:41 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 2026-09-27 14:41 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 14:41 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8892 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (34) · German (4)
Avg boosts / post: 2.2
Top of the latest posts
(This is nothing new and not limited to FOSDEM.) https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/ #institutionalCorruption #BigTech #surveillance #humanRights #democracy #whitewash
@futurebird exactly! Besides a driver upfront & two workers at the rear are the standard even in Europe, because most garbage trucks can take 1 big or two regular/small containers at the same time and they do workflow to maximize the amount
When you hear that someone is a “privacy professional”, you know two things about them: 1. That they work in the field of privacy 2. That someone pays them to do that So ask: Who is paying you? (Always follow the money.) Based on the answer
#usefulidiots across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #usefulidiots 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/usefulidiots