mstdn.social

mstdn.social

Who runs mstdn.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
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Closest alternative
mastodon.social

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs mstdn.social

mstdn.social

A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

Wikidata: General-purpose multi-lingual Mastodon instance, hosted in Germany

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What mstdn.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 14 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on mstdn.social’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to mstdn.social

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No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  8. 08
    Pikabu pikabu.ru Top 1K Russian 1 tracker

    Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу

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  9. 09
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    Mixi mixi.jp Japanese 1 tracker

    ソーシャル・ネットワーキング サービス [mixi(ミクシィ)]

    mixi(ミクシィ)は、日記、写真共有、ゲームや便利ツール満載のアプリなど、さまざまなサービスで友人・知人とのコミュニケーションをさらに便利に楽しくする、日本最大規模のソーシャル・ネットワーキングサービスです。

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  13. 13
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    Flipboard flipboard.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

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    One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.

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    SoFurry sofurry.com No trackers

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    LiveJournal livejournal.com Top 1K

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    x.com Top 100

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  19. 19
    note note.com Top 1K Japanese 1 tracker

    note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。

    クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles mstdn.social’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones mstdn.social uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what mstdn.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 · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
42 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to mstdn.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

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