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Overview

What Mastodon does

Mastodon is a decentralized, open-source social network that's part of the Fediverse. Instead of a single company controlling the platform, Mastodon consists of thousands of independent servers (instances) that can communicate with each other. Users choose servers based on community and moderation preferences.

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Mastodon.

  • The App Store listing (publisher Mastodon gGmbH) states the official app is free with no subscription tier; as a federated non-profit network there is no vendor-hosted enterprise plan or SLA available to purchase.

Pricing

What Mastodon costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Free

  • Toots
  • Federation
  • Custom Instances

Capabilities

Features

  • Decentralization

    Decentralization capability

  • Custom Servers

    Custom Servers capability

  • No Ads

    No Ads capability

  • Chronological Feed

    Chronological Feed capability

  • Content Warnings

    Content Warnings capability

  • Federation

    Federation capability

  • ActivityPub

    Integration with ActivityPub

  • Fediverse

    Integration with Fediverse

  • Ios support

    Available on ios

  • Android support

    Available on android

  • Web support

    Available on web

Behind it

Who makes Mastodon

Company
Mastodon gGmbH
Based in
Berlin, Germany
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