#linkrot
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #linkrot from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #linkrot
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 2026-11-09 23:33 UTC2 uses by 2 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 23:33 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 23:33 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~7139 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (35) · German (4) · Dutch (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.7
Top of the latest posts
We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure t
If you love a website, back it up blog.mistys-internet.website · 468 points · 101 comments · HN thread TL;DR Misty, who works in web archiving, argues that people should back up websites they love, since a favourite fansite (teapuppies.com,
Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material... They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"... Excuse me, I'm not that technical.
What “linkrot” means
WikipediaLink rot is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer resolves at the intended target may be called broken or dead. Link rot can be avoided by designing stable and clean URLs, avoiding deep linking, and the use of web archives.
“Link rot” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#linkrot across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #linkrot 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/linkrot