#yacy
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #yacy from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #yacy
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 2026-10-17 21:20 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 2026-10-17 21:20 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 21:20 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3037 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (27) · French (5) · German (3) · Russian (3) · Spanish (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/yacy-part-1-deployment/ This is the first post in what's very likely going to be a whole series about the YaCy distributed P2P search engine. In this initial post I describe YaCy a bit and go t
Overall, I'm still not sure what to think about YaCy. It does now somewhat okayish find info about e.g. Ceph Rook. And that is not nothing, quite regularly I know which site to look at, but not which page when I'm doing a search. But also,
Yesterday we were talking with Viktor on #Marginalia Discord. I was thinking the bottleneck in crawling is bandwidth. Viktor said something else: The bottleneck is not BW, not most of the time. But the problem's that a) the crawler is polit
What “yacy” means
WikipediaYaCy is a free distributed search engine built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, created by Michael Christen in 2003. The engine is written in Java and distributed on several hundred "YaCy-peer" computers, as of September 2006.
“YaCy” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#yacy across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #yacy 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/yacy