joinmastodon.org
joinmastodon.org
Who runs joinmastodon.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest decentralized social network alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- mstdn.social
Measured from joinmastodon.org’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit joinmastodon.org01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs joinmastodon.org
joinmastodon.org
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
Wikidata: free and open-source federated social networking project
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What joinmastodon.org tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on joinmastodon.org’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to joinmastodon.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to joinmastodon.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to joinmastodon.org match.
- 01
Mastodon 🐘
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.
Very close - 02
Mastodon.social
The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
Very close - 03
Farcaster
A decentralized social network
Close - 04
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Close - 05
AT Protocol
social networking protocol
Close - 06
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Close - 07
Modrinth
Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.
Close - 08
xorg
graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems
Close - 09
Welcome to ~tilde.club~
Close - 10
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Close - 11
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Close - 12
ListenBrainz
Track, explore, visualise and share the music you listen to. Follow your favourites and discover great new music.
Close - 13
Hyphanet
free software
Very close - 14
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Close - 15
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Close - 16
Snapchat - Say It In A Snap
Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories, and try Lenses on desktop, or download the app on mobile! See how to connect & create with friends on Snapchat, wherever you are.
Close - 17
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Close - 18
Best Free Online Dating Site & App - Friends, Chat, Flirt | Badoo
Join Badoo’s community - the best free online dating app. Chat before you match, meet & date people in your area or make new friends from all over the world.
Close - 19
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Close - 20
Smogon University - Competitive Pokémon Community
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles joinmastodon.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones joinmastodon.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what joinmastodon.org adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 48 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to joinmastodon.org’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-fra-eddf8230126-FRA, cache-ber1080035-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=HireWwzGlFDP1DwVu9QWZPc32E2T6ABj2SG_S17n5tQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on joinmastodon.org 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on joinmastodon.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on joinmastodon.org 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on joinmastodon.org 4/20
- nginx · not on joinmastodon.org 4/20
- Zendesk · not on joinmastodon.org 3/20
- Fastly 2/20
- Amazon SES · not on joinmastodon.org 2/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on joinmastodon.org 2/20
- Adobe · not on joinmastodon.org 2/20
- Apple Business · not on joinmastodon.org 2/20
- Atlassian · not on joinmastodon.org 2/20
- Slack · not on joinmastodon.org 2/20
- SendGrid · not on joinmastodon.org 2/20