Sites like mastodon.social

01 · Entity

About mastodon.social

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

Top 10K · #2,700 English 2 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

A general-purpose Mastodon server where users can create accounts to post short messages, follow others and interact across the decentralized fediverse. It is the flagship instance run by the non-profit Mastodon gGmbH.

Who it’s for

General public social media users

Business model

Donations (non-profit)

• decentralized social network
• microblogging
• fediverse
• ActivityPub
• Mastodon instance
• open-source social media
• ad-free timeline
• federated accounts

02 · Embedding space

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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

1. 01
   Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

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2. 02
   Bluesky bsky.app Top 1K

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3. 03
   Facebook facebook.com Top 100

   American online social media and social networking service

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4. 04
   instagram.com Top 100

   photo and video sharing social network owned by Meta Platforms

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   • Meta Business Suite
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5. 05
   Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

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6. 06
   Pikabu pikabu.ru Top 1K Russian

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7. 07
   Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

   Zenodo

   research data repository

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   • Matomo
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   0 say Zenodo is a good alternative to mastodon.social 0 say Zenodo isn’t a real alternative to mastodon.social

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8. 08
   Flaticon flaticon.com Top 10K English

   That request didn't go through. Our security filter flagged something. You don't have permission to access this page.

   database of icons

   • Google Workspace
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   • Amazon SES
   • Google Search Console
   • Mailchimp
   • Zendesk

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9. 09
   ShareThis sharethis.com Top 10K English

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   • Google Workspace
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10. 10
    x.com Top 100

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11. 11
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

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12. 12
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13. 13
    Matomo matomo.org Top 10K English

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14. 14
    twitter.com Top 100

    American social networking service founded in 2006

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15. 15
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16. 16
    PubNub pubnub.com Top 10K English

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    • Fastly
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    • Miro

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17. 17
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18. 18
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English

    The FreeBSD Project

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19. 19
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20. 20
    Linode linode.com Top 1K English

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04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What mastodon.social is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.