#deflate
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #deflate from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #deflate
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 2026-11-08 05:38 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 2026-11-08 05:38 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 05:38 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 14 public posts (spanning ~36220 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00
Languages: English (7) · Russian (3) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1) · Chinese (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.1
Top of the latest posts
New tool: upload a ZIP file, get a smaller ZIP file back. Primarily relies on better Deflate compression, but also has a few small tricks to save bytes. https://evanhahn.com/uploads/2026-05-16-zip-shrinker/ Read more here: https://evanhahn.
🎈 Ah, the timeless quest to understand #Deflate by manually decoding a #GZIP file—because clearly, using a computer to do what it's designed for is just too mainstream. 🤓 Meanwhile, Wikipedia does all the heavy lifting, turning an exercis
Understanding Deflate https://jjrscott.com/to-deflate-or-not/ #HackerNews #Understanding #Deflate #DeflateAlgorithm #Compression #Technology #DataCompression
What “deflate” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediadeflate/diːˈfleɪt/
- verbTo remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre
In computing, Deflate is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. It was designed by Phil Katz, for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool. Deflate was later specified in Request for Comments (RFC) 1951 (1996).
“Deflate” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#deflate across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #deflate 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/deflate