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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

  • 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.

Desktop Clients

  • 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.

Mobile Clients

  • 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.

Libraries

Servers

  • 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.

Guides

Hosting

  • 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.

Similar Projects

  • 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.

Bots

  • 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).
  • autofollow - Autofollow bot for Mastodon (Python).
  • translator - Translate any toot into the desired language using @translator@toot.works [langcode].
  • @TrendingBot@mastodon.social - Shows you what's trending on Mastodon.
  • Remindr - Automatically send reminders to both Mastodon and Twitter from a list of resources (Python).
  • News Bot - Mirrors Twitter accounts on Mastodon (ClojureScript), source available on GitHub.
  • @HackerNewsBot@mastodon.social - Post Hacker News posts with over 100 upvotes.
  • @launchradar@mastodon.cloud - News about space flight, astronomy and astrophysics.