#tivoization
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #tivoization from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #tivoization
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 18:43 UTC1 uses by 1 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 18:43 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #tivoization.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 18:43 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 16 public posts (spanning ~69515 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (13) · Italian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
Misinformation & FUD continues re: so-called #TiVoization. *Many people* still misunderstand issues re: #GPLv2 vs. #GPLv3 on installation & device lock-down. TL;DR: * TiVo's #GPL violation didn't relate to lockdown. * To comply w/ GPLv2, #T
08 - Tivoization https://conf.tube/videos/watch/48897a5c-6162-42ae-8006-ab24da8a773c
@amutable @pid_eins @brauner @michaelvogt @jrocha Some people have written posts on my feed showing confusion as to who Amutable Foundations is for. They fear this sort of verifiable immutability could spread to home desktop and laptop comp
What “tivoization” means
WikipediaTivoization is the practice of designing hardware that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license like the GNU General Public License, but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware. Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) coined the term in reference to TiVo's use of GNU GPL licensed software on the TiVo brand digital video recorders (DVR), which actively
“Tivoization” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#tivoization across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #tivoization 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/tivoization