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
- –
- Closest alternative
- mastodon.social
Measured from mstdn.social’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit mstdn.social01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- 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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to mstdn.social, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Mastodon.social
The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
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Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
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Farcaster
A decentralized social network
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Tumblr
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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Welcome to ~tilde.club~
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Flipboard: Your Social Magazine
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Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
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Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
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Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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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!
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Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
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Client Challenge
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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Snapchat - Say It In A Snap
Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories, and try Lenses on desktop, or download the app on mobile! See how to connect & create with friends on Snapchat, wherever you are.
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Modrinth
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Make Everyone Shine
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MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
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GIPHY - Be Animated
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 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
Built with
- Email hosting
- Proton Mail MX mail.protonmail.ch
- DNS hosting
- Hetzner DNS NS hydrogen.ns.hetzner.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=zK9fj2iT3vxfjTvYes2gvdHRJytuSizNm2-Fgl7J9OI
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on mstdn.social 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on mstdn.social 6/20
- Atlassian · not on mstdn.social 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on mstdn.social 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on mstdn.social 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on mstdn.social 4/20
- React · not on mstdn.social 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on mstdn.social 3/20
- nginx · not on mstdn.social 3/20
- Zendesk · not on mstdn.social 3/20
- Adobe · not on mstdn.social 3/20
- Slack · not on mstdn.social 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on mstdn.social 3/20
- Fastly · not on mstdn.social 2/20
- Next.js · not on mstdn.social 2/20