Mastodon is the world's largest free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network.
This list is a collection of the best Mastodon resources.
- Official
- Instances
- Statistics
- People
- Tools
- Desktop Clients
- Mobile Clients
- Libraries
- Servers
- Guides
- Hosting
- Similar Projects
- Bots
- Official Instance List - Official List of Mastodon instances.
- mastodonservers.net Instance List - Larger list of Mastodon instances.
- instances.social Instance List - Autogenerated list of Mastodon instances.
- mastodon.social - The largest Mastodon server with over 333k active users and 1.5m registered users.
- EU Server - The official server for EU institutions.
- Vivaldi Social - Mastodon social hosted by Vivaldi.
- Mozilla Social - Mastodon social hosted by Mozilla.
- Journa.host - Mastodon server for journalists.
- Newsie - Another Mastodon server for journalists.
- Bots in Space - Mastodon server for bot accounts.
- The Federation - Statistics on protocols, users, and nodes of the Fediverse.
- FediDB - Fediverse network statistics.
- FediBuzz - Observe trends across the Fediverse.
- Fediverse Graph Visualization - Graph visualization of all complete Fediverse.
- MastoInstance.Info - View instance metadata and explore the federation graph.
- fediverse.party - Detailed information about the most popular Fediverse projects and protocols.
- Academics On Mastodon - Markdown list of academics on Mastodon, by discipline/group/area.
- Spreadsheet of Popular accounts - Google spreadsheet of the most popular Mastodon accounts of the Fediverse.
- Spreadsheet of Journalist accounts - Google spreadsheet of various journalists of the Fediverse.
- Toot Scheduler - Schedule toots to "toot" later.
- Mastodon List Manager - Create, manager, filter, and search lists of your selected Mastodon users.
- Mastodon Toot Bookmarklet - Bookmarklet to toot the current page.
- Mastodon - Simplified Federation! - Redirect clicks on remote follow/interaction buttons to your own instance.
- Mastodon Link - Adds Mastodon icon links by profile to make following people on other instances easier.
- Mastodon Redirector - Adds a button to view profiles from other instances on your profile page.
- mastotool - Collection of command-line tools for working with Mastodon accounts.
- Mastodon Widgets - JavaScript Web Components to embed a Mastodon profile, timeline, follow and share button into any website. Provides an auto-completing instance selector.
- Official Client List - Official list of Mastodon clients.
- Elk - Nimble Mastodon web client.
- Brutaldon - A brutalist, web 1.0 client Mastodon/Pleroma.
- phanpy - A minimalistic, but opinionated, Mastodon web client.
- Planiverse - Minimalist, no-JS Web client for Mastodon.
- Official Client - Official Android client.
- Whalebird - Electron-based Mastodon client.
- toot - TUI/CLI Mastodon client using Python.
- Tokodon - Mastodon client made by KDE.
- Megalodon - Fork of the official Android client.
- Fedilab - Fully-featured Android client.
- Tusky - Intuitive Android client.
- Ivory - Mastodon client for iOS, by the creators of Tweetbot.
- Toot! - Mastodon client for iOS.
- SwiftUI - Mastodon client for iOS using SwiftUI.
- Official Library List - Official list of Mastodon client libraries.
- masto.js - Mastodon client for JavaScript.
- go-mastodon - Mastodon Client for golang.
- Glitch Edition - Mastodon Fork with local posting, toot formatting, improved settings, and more granulate controls.
- Hometown - Mastodon Fork with local posting, following lists, customizable max toos length.
- ecko - Mastodon fork with local posting, toot formatting, and more granulate controls.
- What is Mastodon? (Official Video) - What is Mastodon? (Official Video).
- A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon - A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon.
- Fedi.Tips - An unofficial guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse.
- Official Hosting Documentation - Official page with introduction and list of hosting providers.
- Masto.host - Fully managed Mastodon hosting.
- toot.io - Managed Mastodon Hosting, used by ACM, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.
- Cloudplane - Fully manged hosting for open-source apps.
- elestio - Fully-managed Mastodon hosting.
- aether - Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communications.
- Pleroma - Lightweight microblogging platform.
- GNU social - Oldest microblogging platform.
- Microblog.pub - Single-user lightweight microblogging platform.
- Hubzilla - Blog/social networks platform with file, contacts and events sharing.
- Friendica - Social network platform.
- Peertube - Video sharing platform.
- FunkWhale - Audio sharing platform.
- Plume - Blogging platform.
- WriteFreely - Blogging platform.
- PixelFed - Photograph sharing platform.
- Misskey Hub - Interplanetary microblogging platform.
- Lemmy - Link aggregation platform.
- Kbin - Link aggregation platform.
- feed2toot - Automatically parses RSS feeds, identifies new posts and posts them on Mastodon (Python).
- aerialbot - Respond with geotagged aerial imagery of a random location in the world.
- rust-trending - Post trending Rust repositories on Mastodon (inspired by TrendingGithub).
- @[email protected] - Shows you what's trending on Mastodon.
- News Bot - Mirrors Twitter accounts on Mastodon (ClojureScript), source available on GitHub.
- @[email protected] - Post Hacker News posts with over 100 upvotes.
- @[email protected] - News about space flight, astronomy and astrophysics.