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Mastodon instances list (by TheKinrar)
FediAct
Chrome/Firefox extension that simplifies interactions on other Mastodon instances than your own. (by Lartsch)
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| instances | FediAct | |
|---|---|---|
| 183 | 11 | |
| 230 | 457 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.1 | 3.9 | |
| 7 months ago | 11 months ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
instances
Posts with mentions or reviews of instances.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-28.
- How do I find more niche, smaller mastodon servers?
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Achan has a threads account now
Mastodon
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What's mastodon?
A good way to find an instance that works for you is the site: Mastodon instances https://instances.social/
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Suggesting Mastodon for the academic community.
Firstly, you can start by searching for instances of interest here.
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Mastodon has reached 13M accounts
The latter. Source is at https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount which states:
> A bot which counts users from all instances listed at https://instances.social then posts statistics to Mastodon.
> User Count Bot for all known Mastodon instances
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For members of "science twitter" who are opposed to Twitter's recently deployed content-wall - what are some alternative platforms that help academics openly share and discuss scientific research?
For those on the fence, but know more about how instances work, this resource may help you pick a relevant one. There is also this Github resource that enlists all academia-based instances.
- Newbie problem
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Any Indigenous Mastodon Servers To Join?
I used this site for finding specialized Mastodon servers. I used a variety of search string and did not find any Mastodon servers specialized to Indigenous People's concerns.
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Why Reddit is no longer my home on the internet
Go to this place to find a place to sign up: https://instances.social/
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Migration Guide / Plan
Find and join communities in Reddit alternatives. Here's a list of Mastodon communities, and here's an online tool to find and parse through the different Mastodon communities. This is a list of popular Lemmy servers. However, do keep an eye out as some existing subreddit's moderators may create new communities on these sites.
FediAct
Posts with mentions or reviews of FediAct.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-18.
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Favorite Webclient?
It's only part of what you want, but with the browser addon FediAct you can follow or like on other instances and clicking reply directs you back to your own.
- Tunnelbear site wont show on Firefox 112 Xubuntu
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Anyone can help figure out how to allow addon on mull, when it works on fennec?
I want to use https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct on Mull browser (https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/)
- Journalist profile pages at the Washington Post now include Mastodon profile links. Here's an example
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Do I really have to create an account to follow people on other servers?
It’s annoying but fortunately there’s a great Chrome/Firefox extension that automates this process: https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct
- Browser extension that let's you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
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Paul Graham is leaving Twitter
I hope this will be made easier in the near future. In the meantime, you can use this browser extension: https://github.com/lartsch/FediAct#installation
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Noob question
There's an addon for Chrome and Firefox that helps with this issue.
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incomplete timelines
If you find yourself copying URLs from foreign instances often, you might like a browser extension like FediFollow that dose this process automatically when you try to interact with a foreign post.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing instances and FediAct you can also consider the following projects:
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
pinafore - Alternative web client for Mastodon (UNMAINTAINED)
PixelFed - Photo Sharing. For Everyone.
mastodon-documentation - Full documentation repository for Mastodon
gotosocial - Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
Socialhome - A federated social home
GuideToMastodon - An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
wordpress-activitypub - ActivityPub for WordPress
bookwyrm - Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
plane-notify - Notify if a selected plane has taken off or landed using ADS-B data. Compares older data to newer data to determine if a landing or takeoff has occurred. As well as nav modes, emergency squawk and resolution advisory notifications. Can output to Twitter, Discord, Mastodon, and Telegram