#obscurantism

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

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0
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
0
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
21
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 21
1.4
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 21
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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.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-09 04:18 UTC
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0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-09 04:18 UTC

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-09 04:18 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 21 public posts (spanning ~59631 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00

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Languages: English (18) · French (2) · Portuguese (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.5

Top of the latest posts

  • 🧵5/7: ...#Home. As far as I am aware, nobody is expecting me to open my door to #nazis, genocidal #zionists, #antivaxxers, nor invite #obscurantism champions for dinner to ensure they can share "their side of the story". So why should I in

    sheislaurence@sheislaurence♥ 14↻ 62026-01-21 22:33 UTCView post →
  • If you are like me worried that open knowledge will be replaced by AI slop and obscurantism, download now your offline version of wikipedia from @kiwix ❤️ #wikipedia #AIslop #obscurantism #science #resist

    bartosz 🚲🌳🐍🦀@btel♥ 7↻ 02026-02-04 10:31 UTCView post →
  • @davidgerard #shriekback #music #obscurantism You could try "Rem Koolhaas Stole My Shovel" too. It's one of the extras on Having a Moment.

    Graham@zotz@ohai.social♥ 2↻ 02025-12-31 00:57 UTCView post →

What “obscurantism” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

obscurantism

  • nounA state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

Obscurantism, also called obscurationism, is a polemical charge of deliberately presenting information in an abstruse and imprecise manner that limits further inquiry and understanding of a subject. Obscurantism has been defined as anti-intellectual opposition to the dissemination of knowledge and as writing characterized by deliberate vagueness.

“Obscurantism” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#obscurantism across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #obscurantism 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/obscurantism