mastodon.social
mastodon.social
Who runs mastodon.social, 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 mastodon.social’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit mastodon.social01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs mastodon.social
mastodon.social
The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
Wikidata: the largest Mastodon instance, operated by the Mastodon gGmbh non-profit
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What mastodon.social 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.social’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to mastodon.social
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to mastodon.social, 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
social networking site operated by Meta Platforms
Very close - 03
Bluesky
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Close - 04
Farcaster
A decentralized social network
Very close - 05
Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
Very close - 06 twitter.com Top 100
American social networking service founded in 2006
Very close - 07 x.com Top 100
American social networking service founded in 2006
Close - 08
Tumblr
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Very close - 09
Chinese microblogging website
Very close - 10
Instagram
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Very close - 11
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Very close - 12 MetaFilter metafilter.com
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Very close - 13
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GREE（グリー）
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Very close - 16
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 - 17
American entertainment and social media website
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Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
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Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor
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Very close - 20
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles mastodon.social’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones mastodon.social 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.social 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to mastodon.social’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-fra-etou8220077-FRA, cache-fra-etou8220077-FRA, cache…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on mastodon.social 18/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Atlassian · not on mastodon.social 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on mastodon.social 5/20
- Zendesk · not on mastodon.social 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on mastodon.social 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- Adobe · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- Apple Business · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- Slack · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- Stripe · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- nginx · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on mastodon.social 3/20
- Hetzner DNS · not on mastodon.social 2/20
- Cloudflare · not on mastodon.social 2/20