#cognitohazard
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #cognitohazard from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #cognitohazard
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-13 04:10 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-13 04:10 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-13 04:10 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 16 public posts (spanning ~49863 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (14)
Avg boosts / post: 1.7
Top of the latest posts
A lot of signs point to #LLM use being a hard #cognitohazard. Studies so far indicate that it comes at a "cognitive cost" (somewhat* lasting decline of the ability to perform cognitive tasks), and there are believable reports of users being
Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse) I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behav
BlueCyberSerpent@BlueCyberSerpent@neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network♥ 3↻ 32026-02-11 02:30 UTCView post →I can make this city your best experience... or your worst nightmare. #cyberpunk #cognitohazard
What “cognitohazard” means
WikipediaAn information hazard or infohazard is "a risk that arises from the dissemination of (true) information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm". It was formalized by philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2011. It challenges the principle of freedom of information, as it states that some types of information are too dangerous, as people could either be harmed by it or use it to harm others. One example would be the instructions for creating a thermonuclear weapon. Following these instructio
“Information hazard” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#cognitohazard across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #cognitohazard 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/cognitohazard