#xattr
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #xattr from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #xattr
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 2026-10-16 21:01 UTC1 uses by 1 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 2026-10-16 21:01 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-16 21:01 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 32 public posts (spanning ~56770 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (25) · German (3) · Russian (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.2
Top of the latest posts
https://github.com/ArkThis/AHAlodeck/blob/main/res/0byte-db_entry.png #xattr #linux #ext4 #zfs #samba #smb Right-click-edit-metadata happily in-use over 1 year now: Amazing! #AHAlodeck #Recoll #SENlabs
Why do we have only 2 layers above firmware in the #storage tech stack? Just blocks and filesystems. Why not as many layers as make sense? ext2 evolved uncommonly well, with journalling being a add-on sort-of feature in ext3. Why does most
Pin files in iCloud Drive https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/10/13/pin-files-in-icloud-drive/
What “xattr” means
WikipediaExtended file attributes are file system features that enable users to associate computer files with metadata not interpreted by the filesystem, whereas regular attributes have a purpose strictly defined by the filesystem. Unlike forks, which can usually be as large as the maximum file size, extended attributes are usually limited in size to a value significantly smaller than the maximum file size. Typical uses include storing the author of a document, the character encoding of a plain-text docu
“Extended file attributes” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#xattr across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #xattr 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/xattr