mastodon.online
mastodon.online
Who runs mastodon.online, 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
- Threads
Measured from mastodon.online’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit mastodon.online01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs mastodon.online
mastodon.online
A newer server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
Wikidata: Mastodon instance operated by the software development team, serves overflow from mastodon.social
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What mastodon.online 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 13 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 mastodon.online’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to mastodon.online
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to mastodon.online, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to mastodon.online match.
- 01
Mastodon 🐘
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.
Very close - 02
Farcaster
A decentralized social network
Very close - 03
Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
Very close - 04
Tumblr
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Very close - 05
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 06
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Very close - 07
Welcome to ~tilde.club~
Very close - 08
Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
Very close - 09
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
Very close - 10
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 - 11
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Very close - 12
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Very close - 13
FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -
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Very close - 14
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Close - 15
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Very close - 16
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 17
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 18
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 19
BeReal
Your daily dose of real life.
Very close - 20
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles mastodon.online’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones mastodon.online 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 mastodon.online 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to mastodon.online’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
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-hel1410032-HEL, cache-hel1410032-HEL, cache-ber108005…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Jp7rK19TgcNRLI0pAipAKamgTp3gOG9iVnQHAXCB9sQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on mastodon.online 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on mastodon.online 6/20
- React · not on mastodon.online 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on mastodon.online 5/20
- Next.js · not on mastodon.online 5/20
- Zendesk · not on mastodon.online 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on mastodon.online 4/20
- Atlassian · not on mastodon.online 4/20
- nginx · not on mastodon.online 4/20
- Adobe · not on mastodon.online 3/20
- Apple Business · not on mastodon.online 3/20
- Slack · not on mastodon.online 3/20
- Stripe · not on mastodon.online 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on mastodon.online 3/20