Comparison
Instagram 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 very close.
Instagram A social network where users share photos and short videos, follow other accounts, and view content in a personal feed, Stories and Reels. It also offers direct messaging, hashtags and location tagging.
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
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Registered in
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Online since
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- Unknown
- Audience
- Top 100
- 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
- 0
- 0
- Terms changes
- 0
- 0
- 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.