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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to mastodon.social 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
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
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
Welcome to ~tilde.club~
Very close - 07
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 - 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
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Close - 10
Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
Close - 11
Care2 is the world's largest social network for good, a community of over 40 million people standing together, starting petitions and sharing stories that inspire action.
Largest online community empowering people to lead a healthy and green lifestyle while taking action on important causes such as human rights, animal welfare and global warming.
Close - 12
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 13
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Close - 14
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 - 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
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close - 17
FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -
FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.
Close - 18
Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
Close - 19
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 20
BeReal
Your daily dose of real life.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 88 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