#arc4random

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #arc4random from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
4
Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 4
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Mastodon · last 4
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-09 10:18 UTC
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0 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 2026-11-09 10:18 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #arc4random.

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 10:18 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~63724 hours).

Posting hours (UTC)

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (4)

Avg boosts / post: 1.5

Top of the latest posts

  • I revisited that, AGAIN. Getting #random data in #poser now has yet another fallback, in case we don't have #arc4random and we also don't have #getrandom: read from /dev/random and/or /dev/urandom, "old style" 🙈. Still better to try this b

    Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:@zirias@bsd.cafe♥ 0↻ 02025-04-15 19:01 UTCView post →
  • About the #random thingie ... I need random data in #swad to generate unpredictable #session IDs. I previously had an implementation trying the #Linux-originating #getrandom if available, with a fallback to a stupid internal #xorshift #PRNG

    Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:@zirias@bsd.cafe♥ 0↻ 12025-04-15 14:59 UTCView post →
  • Even more randomness https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220731110742 #openbsd #arc4random

    Peter N. M. Hansteen@pitrh@mastodon.social♥ 0↻ 22022-07-31 11:09 UTCView post →

#arc4random across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #arc4random 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/arc4random