#pretendians
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #pretendians from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #pretendians
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 · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-13 10:17 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.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-13 10:17 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-13 10:17 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 34 public posts (spanning ~56933 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (33) · Norwegian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.8
Top of the latest posts
An 8-minute video primer on the predicament of #pretendians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawrSg5u1S8
It is due to these cases of false #Abenaki claims in VT that i was invited to give a talk at UVM in April on the grave risks of self indigenization to actual tribes/Native nations. This article is a must-read. It's open source. #Pretendians
Just in case folks aren't aware of who #LakotaMan is (and yeah, he does have a BirdSite mirror account here), I came across this article, @Yehuda ... Who is LakotaMan https://dailydot.com/lakotaman-john-martin #Pretendians #NativeAmericanAp
What “pretendians” means
Wikipedia"Pretendian" is a pejorative colloquialism for a person who engages in Indigenous identity fraud. A pretendian is a non-Indigenous person who falsely and publicly claims an Indigenous identity. The word "pretendian" is a portmanteau of the words "pretend" and "Indian".
“Pretendian” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#pretendians across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #pretendians 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/pretendians