#lwn

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

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25
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
6
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.2/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.7
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-08 19:20 UTC
6
11-02
4
11-03
4
11-04
4
11-05
5
11-06
2
11-07
0
11-08

25 uses by 6 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 UTC
#LwNq7T
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#lwnnews
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#LWNGala2023
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#lwnnet
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#lwnprb
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#lwnd
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 19:20 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~236 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (40)

Avg boosts / post: 1.2

Top of the latest posts

  • Critical security vulnerability affects OpenSSH on Alpine Linux systems https://lwn.net/Articles/1105464/ #LWN #Linux #security #OpenSSH

    LWN.net@lwn@lwn.net♥ 6↻ 132026-11-05 11:39 UTCView post →

  • [$] The campaign to push Northstar into Linux distributions There is not a broad selection of mature, open-source web-browser engines for Linux users. Most of the browsers available for Linux are based on one of just three projects: Chromiu

    LWN.net@lwn@lwn.net♥ 6↻ 52026-10-28 14:27 UTCView post →

  • [$] Portable Python scripts with dependencies A basic Python script is portable: it can be copied between machines with little concern about compatibility. A script that depends on third-party packages requires quite a bit mor [...] https:/

    LWN.net@lwn@lwn.net♥ 4↻ 12026-11-04 14:45 UTCView post →

#lwn across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #lwn 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.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

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/lwn