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8chan/kun vs mastodon.social
Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re close.
8kun (formerly 8chan) is an anonymous imageboard where users create and moderate their own message boards with minimal site administration. It has been linked to extremist content, harassment campaigns and mass shootings.
A general-purpose Mastodon server where users can create accounts to post short messages, follow others and interact across the decentralized fediverse. It is the flagship instance run by the non-profit Mastodon gGmbH.
- Company
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- Registered in
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- Online since
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- Audience
- Smaller site
- Top 10K
- Trackers on the homepage
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- Ad trackers
- None
- None
- Cookie banner
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- Prices
- No pricing page found
- No pricing page found
- Last price change
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- Privacy policy changes
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- 0
- Terms changes
- 0
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- Open positions
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.