#nvi
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #nvi from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #nvi
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 2026-11-09 20:43 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-11-09 20:43 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 20:43 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~4213 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00
Languages: English (33) · Hungarian (2) · Spanish (2)
Avg boosts / post: 2
Top of the latest posts
@passthejoe #vi on #netbsd is #nvi. If you need multibyte characters install #nvi2. I used #vim many years on #linux, but I have become a minimalist, so when I started with #bsd I decided to use the installation defaults, on #netbsd it is #
Best long term viable vim replacement? #vi #nvi #vim #neovim #editors
@rl_dane Fun fact: The :x command was added to ex/vi in 1980 because :wq did too much. Horton copied the name from hed. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-4_3-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/ucb/ex/ex.news#L382 @rettichsc
What “nvi” means
Wikipedianvi is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley text editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD and, later, Unix systems. It was originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD).
“Nvi” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#nvi across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #nvi 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/nvi