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.
- 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
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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
Welcome to ~tilde.club~
Close - 09
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Close - 10
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Close - 11
ListenBrainz
Track, explore, visualise and share the music you listen to. Follow your favourites and discover great new music.
Close - 12
Hyphanet
free software
Very close - 13
Flipboard: Your Social Magazine
One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.
Close - 14
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Close - 15
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close - 16
Open Web Protocol - Mysterium Network
An open-source ecosystem of protocols, tools and infrastructure to liberate the web. Our node network empowers both builders and users to access free information.
Close - 17
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
Close - 18
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Close - 19
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Close - 20
The extensible community framework - Flarum
Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes.
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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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 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