#XProtect
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #XProtect from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #xprotect
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 2026-09-26 18:57 UTC2 uses by 2 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 2026-09-26 18:57 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 18:57 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~4620 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (38) · French (1) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
macOS 27 "Golden Gate" ships today — and quietly un-fixes the XPdb flock bug I reported last year. Apple spent three releases sealing XProtect's behavioral-events database into a protected vault. macOS 27 undoes half: an inverted file-read-
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for macOS Sequoia and later https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/09/26/apple-has-just-released-an-update-to-xprotect-for-macos-sequoia-and-later-2/
XProtect Remediator 163 doesn’t run https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/09/25/xprotect-remediator-163-doesnt-run/
What “xprotect” means
WikipediaGatekeeper is a security feature of the macOS operating system by Apple. It enforces code signing and verifies downloaded applications before allowing them to run, thereby reducing the likelihood of inadvertently executing malware. Gatekeeper builds upon File Quarantine, which was introduced in Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and expanded in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). The feature originated in version 10.7.3 of Mac OS X Lion as the command-line utility spctl. A graphical user interface was originally
“Gatekeeper (macOS)” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#xprotect across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #xprotect 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/xprotect