#cruelty

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

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6
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
6
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.2
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-09 23:28 UTC
0
10-03
0
10-04
1
10-05
1
10-06
1
10-07
1
10-08
2
10-09

6 uses by 6 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 2026-10-09 23:28 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-09 23:28 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~938 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00

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Languages: English (38) · Dutch (1) · German (1)

Avg boosts / post: 2.3

Top of the latest posts

  • @neil I'm now a bit auld. I think the single most striking thing I've learnt as I went along is how many people are actually sad, mad or bad. Particularly the first two. Stuff is hard and often brutal for so many of us. It's normal not to f

    John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿@FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot♥ 3↻ 02026-09-10 18:50 UTCView post →
  • Vandaag zijn we al iets minder barbaars maar of het het vernoemen waard is, valt te betwijfelen. #mary #elephant #animals #cruelty #animalrights

    Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪@IngridHbn♥ 2↻ 32026-09-22 13:37 UTCView post →
  • "At a meeting with the DHS deputy director, the contractor pitched constructing a FEMA-style camp, believing that would be more humane than building megaprisons inside of warehouses. But his company’s plan was rejected. “No one that we spok

    Scott Pfitzinger@pfitz@hcommons.social♥ 1↻ 52026-10-09 22:05 UTCView post →

What “cruelty” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

cruelty/ˈkɹuː(ə)lti/

  • nounAn indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Cruelty is the intentional infliction of suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept.

“Cruelty” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#cruelty across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #cruelty 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/cruelty