README.md

Awesome Mastodon

Mastodon is the world's largest free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network.

This list is a collection of the best Mastodon resources.

Contents

• Official
• Instances
• Statistics
• People
• Tools
• Desktop Clients
• Mobile Clients
• Libraries
• Servers
• Guides
• Hosting
• Similar Projects
• Bots

Official

• GitHub Repository
• Documentation & Help Center
• API Documentation

Instances

• 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.

Statistics

• 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.

People

• 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.

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

• Official Library List - Official list of Mastodon client libraries.
• masto.js - Mastodon client for JavaScript.
• go-mastodon - Mastodon Client for golang.

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

• 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.

Hosting

• 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.

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).
• @TrendingBot@mastodon.social - Shows you what's trending on Mastodon.
• 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.