Mastodon is the largest decentralised social network on the internet. Built on open web standards by a non-profit. Learn more on our website!
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We’re also looking ahead to what comes next. In another blog post published today, we introduced Mastodon’s new leadership team. Our Executive Director is Felix Hlatky (formerly, CFO of Mastodon gGmbH), who has already represented Mastodon on international stages.
We also shared an organisational update, and a fundraising update, in that blog post.
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As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.
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Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.
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Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!
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For anyone wondering, Mastodon got over 70K sign-ups yesterday alone. Let's keep the momentum going! The "public square" of the web must not belong to any one person or corporation!
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At Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire. Your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company!
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Imagine thinking this screenshot makes Mastodon look bad...
Screenshotting before @MastodonProject removes it.
Bunch of entitled idiots. Good to know. #NoMastodon
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With Mastodon, you don't need to pay 8 dollars a month to see half the ads.
Because we don't allow them. At all. 🤯
joinmastodon.org/
ALT Mastodon is open source and not for sale. We will never serve ads or push profiles for you to see.
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Some Mastodon servers are under very heavy load during the past few days due to the extreme spike in user numbers. Remember, no matter which server you sign-up on, you get access to the same decentralized network. You don't have to choose the popular ones!
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Many of Twitter's most recognizable features were invented in third-party apps, and we're thrilled to see what those developers are now doing with Mastodon. Powered by open source, we can promise: Mastodon will never charge for API access!
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Looks like #Mastodon is trending on Twitter as more and more people are announcing their new profiles. Welcome to the better social media that does not belong to a single company and cannot be sold, welcome to the fediverse!
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Some people ask us why Mastodon isn't a single website. A single website that can serve the whole world requires so much computing power, infrastructure, and engineering, that it is practically impossible to do without big capital and monetization.
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What is Mastodon?
How does it work?
Why do I need to choose a server?
What advantages are there to using it?
Check out this 2 minute video to learn more ⬇️
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What is Mastodon?
The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance...
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We're observing an influx of approx. 41,287 users to the #Mastodon network today
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Twitter is not a public town square no matter how many "commitments" to this or that the owner gives. Only a decentralized, open-source system can guarantee that.
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Looks like hosting your own Mastodon server is going to cost less than paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter. Except when you pay to host your own Mastodon server, you own your data, identity, and social graph fully.
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Speaking of features Twitter doesn't have— here are some other perks of joining Mastodon!
✅Edit button
✅Server-custom emoticons
✅Auto-delete posts option
✅Extended notification bar (see image)
✅500 character limit
✅Advanced post filter system
✅Content warnings
& more!
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Here we go...
BREAKING: Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's $44 billion offer to buy the social media platform. bit.ly/3vIi5aL
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Signing up on Mastodon is easy! Unlike a traditional social network, it's not a single website. Instead, you pick a "server" which is what hosts all your data, similar to an e-mail provider. Each server gives you access to the same social network.
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What if I told you that on Mastodon, you can verify yourself, by yourself, for free... 🤫
A @joinmastodon server that offered identity verification would be super popular right now. I bet you could even charge a monthly fee for it.
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We stand with the protesters in India. Our software is difficult to block by governments and can be utilized as an effective organizing tool, should anyone involved be reading this tweet.
"It's against the Muslims. It's against the ethos of India. It's against the secular ideas of India."
University students are protesting a new citizenship law that discriminates against the Muslim minority population in India. #CAAProtests
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#Mastodon will not compromise on its vision of an ad-free, open-source social network. Our actions reflect that.
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The number of people who switched over to #Mastodon in the last week alone has surpassed 230 thousand, along with many returning to old accounts bumping the network to over 655 thousand active users, highest it's ever been!
Why? 👉
Why choose Mastodon? Because it's decentralized and open-source, it can't be sold and won't go bankrupt. It respects your privacy and gives control over the network to the people. It's a product on top of a protocol, the way Twitter should have been.
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It's been an amazing week for Mastodon! Our network has gained 141K active users this week, and 176K this month; our iOS/Android apps have risen through the ranks on the app stores, and the EU launched their own Mastodon server!
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Funnily enough, Mastodon was originally founded when there were talks that another controversial billionaire might buy Twitter, back in 2016. We thought this kind of instant global communication was too important to be so vulnerable to the whims of a single corporate entity.
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All moderation is political. To claim impartiality and non-bias, especially in 2019, is to take the side of the status quo.
Twitter’s commitment to inclusion and diversity is fundamental to who we are and crucial to the effectiveness of our service. Voices from across the spectrum can be seen and heard on Twitter and we are committed to the principles of openness, transparency, and impartiality.
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...because the point of verification should be about actually verifying who you are, not about paying for fancy badge and utilizing an algorithm to artificially inflate your social media clout. 📈
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So why is Mastodon not a single website: Because if it was, it would be doomed to recreate all that you hate about the social media platforms you're trying to leave. Decentralizing the platform, building it on top of a protocol, is how it breaks the cycle.
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Publicly traded for-profit corporations have one interest and one interest alone: keeping their shareholders happy. Twitter doesn't care about transparency, and it certainly doesn't care about meaningful change that doesn't translate to increased dividends. #SuspendTwitter
We are committed to serving an open public conversation in India and we will continue to be transparent in our efforts.
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Mastodon, your cryptocurrency-free decentralized social network. No blockchains, no NFTs, no attempting to turn every social interaction into a microtransaction
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New blog post: "This Isn’t About Social Media. This is About Control." medium.com/tootsuite/this-is…
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Why choose Mastodon? Because it's decentralized and open-source, it can't be sold and won't go bankrupt. It respects your privacy and gives control over the network to the people. It's a product on top of a protocol, the way Twitter should have been.
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Want to learn more about the philosophy behind Mastodon and what sets it apart from other social media platforms? Read the interview with the founder and lead developer in Time Magazine time.com/6229230/mastodon-eu…
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This post was removed by mistake and we apologize. We’ve recently hired more moderators and the post in question was falsely interpreted to be implying something it was not. (1/2)
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We're seeing a huge number of downloads as our official apps are breaching top 10 lists in multiple countries today, such as 🇨🇦. Thank you!
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Today a new third-party #Mastodon app, Ice Cubes, launched on iOS. At least two more, Ivory from @tapbots and Mona from @theSpringApp, are being developed. Third-party apps are where the innovation happens!
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We welcome Germany's national public television broadcaster, @zdf to #Mastodon today! We are very excited you are there! ✊ #Mastodon #PublicMedia
zdf.social/@ZDF
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There are many! 📱⚡️
joinmastodon.org/apps
You can choose between our official apps for iOS and Android or go third party. As always, the choice is yours!
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You asked for it, and it’s coming. Quote posts, search, and groups are on their way and a new onboarding experience is launching today. Read more here:
blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/0…
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There, fixed it. Verification = $̵8̵ free, now and forever.
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We won't spy on you for the Saudi royal family, that's the Mastodon guarantee™️
WHOA: Two former Twitter employees have been charged by the DOJ with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into critics of the royal family.
One is accused of accessing personal info of more than 6,000 Twitter accounts in 2015 on behalf of Saudi Arabia.
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Jack is many things, but an idiot he is not. He's whip smart. He knows we exist, he literally follows us.
This is not an announcement of reinventing the wheel. This is announcing the building of a protocol that Twitter gets to control, like Google controls Android.
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At #Mastodon, verifying your account is and always will be free. You can link it to your official website to prove you are you in web-standard ways. We welcome all #lTwitterVerified users to try this out and welcome you all on our platform.
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Developed by a German non-profit, Mastodon is essentially a framework that allows communities, individuals and organizations to self-host interoperable social media - a decentralized social network.
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Monetization usually means ads, changing the website to have people see more ads, invading people's privacy to make sure they've seen ads... A single website also means one organization is in complete control. If they do what you don't want them to do, you're out of luck.
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A beautiful new third-party app for Mastodon, Elk ✨
elk.zone/
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Beyond picking a server to create an account on (like picking an e-mail provider!) it is seamless to you, as you can follow and talk to anyone across the network. (And there are absolutely no blockchains involved anywhere in the process)
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A new third-party iOS app for Mastodon, Ivory, is now available on the App Store. From the developers of Tweetbot, @tapbots!
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This decentralized structure is what makes Mastodon fundamentally different to Twitter and other supposed alternatives. We have no power to define your rules, to show you ads, to track your data--by design.
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You are NOT siloed. There are servers operated by specific communities, but a "server" is just a service provider--like an ISP for the internet, or like Gmail for e-mail--that gives you access to the decentralized social network. It is global space not owned by one company.
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A single website has your data locked in, and if successful, has such strong network effects that it can get away with making the service so much worse without having to fear anyone leaving. And if it shuts down, it's game over. Your posts and connections gone.
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This is the kind of worry you are doomed to have when the global communications platform you rely on belongs to a single company
Somebody save us.
Twitter Re-examines Musk Bid, May Be More Receptive to a Deal wsj.com/articles/twitter-re-…
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Not a good sign if you need to build a wall to keep people in. Twitter did it to last year, and they're doing it to #Substack now. They can get away with anything as long as they keep you locked in. The future of social media is open and decentralized.
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Today we've released a new update to our iOS app! It brings an improved sign-up flow, home screen widgets, and many accessibility improvements.
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The next release of #Mastodon will be numbered 4.0 and the release candidate will be available soon. Better discovery features, unified UI, edits, and more -- stay tuned for the changelog.
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1. Buy domain name
2. Install open-source Mastodon software
3. Congrats, you now have a new platform!
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We're aware the login UX on the mobile app is subpar, a fix is in the pipeline but won't be ready until after the weekend. To login to a server not shown in the list, type its domain in the search field, and it will show up.
@joinmastodon Hi, is there some way to use the mastodon.social domain to sign up into the Mastodon iPad app? That domain (which is for my account) doesn’t appear in the list. This is very confusing!
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To be clear, we do not believe that the post violates the rules in the screenshot and this was made clear to all moderators of mastodon.social. (2/2)
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Let's do some tallies! #Mastodon has gained 203,394 active users in April, most of them last week. The network is now at almost half a million active users. Our Android app has been downloaded 38.7K times, and our iOS app 93.5K times🐘
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The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network. Now in blog form:
blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/0…
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You know how to connect to the internet, you need an ISP? And there's more than one (ideally), the internet doesn't belong to e.g. Verizon. A Mastodon server is like an ISP for a global social network that doesn't belong to any one person or organization.
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As newsrooms roundly reject the pay-for-play #bluecheckmark , the @washingtonpost shows how they verified their reports on #mastodon using web-standard, open means no-one can take away or charge for & that can work beyond Mastodon. cc: @zubakskees
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We didn't just pop up though, we've been steadily working on decentralized social media since 2016 and will continue to do so regardless of what happens to Twitter.
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Simply choose a server from the curated list we provide on joinmastodon.org/servers - we try to make it so you can't make a wrong choice there. You can move your account from one server to another later, without losing any of your followers!
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Official #Mastodon apps now available for iOS and Android✨
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ALT iPhone and Android device frames with screenshots of the iOS and Android Mastodon apps
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Starting Nov 15, the platform formerly known as Twitter will begin to use your posts, photos and artworks to train their Large Language Model. If you'd like to use a privacy-friendly platform that doesn't engage with the AI bubble, go to mastodon.social
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As Elon sets another date for putting user verification behind a paywall, we remind everyone that verifying your account on #Mastodon in open, web standard ways is--and always will be--free.
Elon Musk Says Twitter 'Final Date' for Removing Legacy Blue Check-Marks Is 4/20 variety.com/2023/digital/new…
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Did you know we have a new website? If you were ever confused by Mastodon, it's now clearer than ever:
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Every organization should look to platforms that share its values, empowers it to freely verify and secure its accounts without paywalls, curate and own its own social graph, and are open--and are not at the whim of any board, billionaire, or buyout. #Mastodon
NPR quits Twitter after it questions the network’s editorial independence - my story: npr.org/2023/04/12/116926916…
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Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 1.6M people; Publish links, pictures, text, video. #Mastodon is free, non-commercial, decentralized, and optimized for your convenience, not advertising.
📌 Sign up on any server: joinmastodon.org
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As #Twitter announced crippling it’s free API, we thank developers @yearsprogress, @lastquake, @zoom_earth, @PossumEveryHour, @randommandelbot, @infinite_scream, @PossumEveryHour,@kothscreens, @Clipart1994bot, @ca_dmv_bot & thousands more now on #Mastodon's forever free API.
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I can think of one social media platform where this wouldn't happen! 👀 Let us know if you need help signing up 🐘✨
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Another 43,292 users have arrived on various #Mastodon servers since that tweet!
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"In addition to a new onboarding experience, Mastodon is also rolling out quote posts, improved content and profile search, and groups. Rochko also says the platform is working on improving its moderation tools, as well as 'removing friction from decentralized features.'”
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On #Mastodon the #UkraineCrisis and related #Ukraine terms are not down-ranked by our algorithm, as we don’t HAVE an algorithm, just humans sharing what they care about to their friends. That’s it. cc: @FedorovMykhailo
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Wow ok we don't have a soundcloud, but check out joinmastodon.org
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Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 4.4M people; Publish links, pictures, text, video. #Mastodon is free, non-commercial, decentralized, and optimized for your convenience, not advertising.
📌 Sign up on any server: joinmastodon.org
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Sounds familiar!
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey tweeted that he regrets the social media platform became a company. He also said that he wished it operated under 'a protocol,' which would be similar to email in that it is not controlled by one centralized entity reut.rs/3AldltT
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We are teaming up with the design agency @oakstudios to update our homepage and our brand. Goodbye social media blue, hello vibrant purple!
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ALT The Mastodon logo in two variants, the symbol and the wordmark. The blue parts are now purple with a pleasant gradient.
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It's time to reject the corporations and billionaires that suppress free speech and force algorithms and unwanted content into our social feeds.
Mastodon is built by the community, and today we’re announcing independent non-profit ownership!
Join us in embracing the future of social media: decentralized, community-driven, with users first.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/0…
#MastodonNonProfit
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If each Discord server was actually hosted and operated by different people and not just provided by Discord itself, and if you could follow people like on Twitter, and if it didn't matter which Discord that person was on you could still follow them, then yes, basically that.
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Hi Erika, we're very sorry. Your account was suspended by mistake, and we've just unsuspended it. It was reported as an impersonator linking to a tweet you made where you said you had an impersonator on Mastodon; both the reporter and the mod misread the tweet.
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Great to see @wikipedia join @Wikimedia on #Mastodon & to see them begin building integration with the free Mastodon identity verification into the Wikimedia platform! Exciting!
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