#enshittification
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #enshittification from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #enshittification
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-08 19:20 UTC66 uses by 62 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-08 19:20 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 19:20 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~111 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (31) · Polish (2) · Dutch (2) · Italian (2) · German (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 5.4
Top of the latest posts
grumpy old man “Pet peeve that gets stronger every year”: stop replacing actual pressable buttons with crappy ‘touch sensitive buttons’ on appliances. 1. they are shit, 2. they don’t work if you have wet/dirty fingers, 3. you have to look t
Read an interesting quote today, by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1976. He coded Eliza… "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal peopl
When the whole Free Software world went behind Anubis, I was silent. When old #Reddit went behind a #login, I was annoyed. When Stack Overflow went behind #cloudflare and blocked my #browser, I was angry. When #Anubis made me wait 5 minutes
What “enshittification” means
WikipediaEnshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users. Over time, they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers. Ultimately, they degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximise short-term profits for shareholders.
“Enshittification” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#enshittification across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #enshittification 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/enshittification