#socat
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #socat from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #socat
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 2026-11-10 19:04 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 2026-11-10 19:04 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-10 19:04 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 33 public posts (spanning ~52237 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 04:00
Languages: English (22) · German (5) · Russian (2) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1) · Chinese (1) · Dutch (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
I am #selfhosting a #Gitea instance (with plans to change to #Forgejo soon), which permanently gets attacked by web scrapers. All the senseless scraping of each commit and each `git blame` makes my VPS sweat quite a bit. Simply blocking the
Needed a simple way to tunnel SSH connection over HTTPS recently. It should be trivial, but internets somehow mostly care about sharing SSH and HTTPS on the same port. Or do $ANY over SSH. I wanted to completely hide the fact that I use SSH
#packetradio using #digirig #aprs #direwolf #xastir #socat #packetradio #nixos #configurationdotnix #udev #ft818 #yaesuft818 #hamradio #resilientcommunication #Notfallkommunikation detailed setup video ---> https://youtu.be/smrTgJLs9Hg?si=i
What “socat” means
Wikipedianetcat is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP. The command is designed to be a dependable back-end that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and investigation tool, since it can produce almost any kind of connection its user could need and has a number of built-in capabilities.
“Netcat” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#socat across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #socat 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/socat