#xv
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #xv from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #xv
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 13:39 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-07-27 13:39 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 13:39 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 35 public posts (spanning ~25958 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: French (19) · English (13) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.9
Top of the latest posts
John Bradley, the author of xv, has died. The program was one of the early versatile image viewers for X11 on UNIX like systems, and no Linux distro in the 1990s was complete without it. If you want to try it out, it compiles very easily on
I really want to stress that everything I have said thus far about open source sustainability and the origins of the #xv problem are not *solutions*. My proposals are *mitigations*. This is not a problem that can be “solved”. It is a comple
I really can only shitpost about the #xv debacle because the whole thing just makes me tired and sad. Anyone paying even a tiny bit of attention to the conversation about open source sustainability could have told you this was inevitable. A
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