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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better Mastodon alternative or higher similarity.
Mastodon discussion
Mastodon reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mastodon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-21.
- Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
- Any social platforms not focused on algorithms?
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Bluesky OAuth2 Client, with Vanilla JavaScript
NOTE: Again... What the hell is a "PDS Server"? Well... Click here. For those using Mastodon is just like an "instance".
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Accounts Vulnerable Due to Google's OAuth Flaw
> A unique user ID that doesn’t change over time.
This is already in the spec for OpenID Connect: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#Subjec...
And it's already recommended to rely on it and not the email to prevent issues such as: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHS...
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Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon
Mastodon offers RSS feeds for users (e.g. https://mastodon.social/@primatologyxyz/with_replies.rss), but efforts to extend native RSS support seem to have gone stale (e.g. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21500).
However, there are RSS bridges like RSSHub (https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#mastodon) and OpenRSS (https://openrss.org/blog/mastodon-rss-feeds) that offer RSS feeds for the "Explore" and "Hashtag" sections for local instances.
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PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention
Do they not have trumpets where you live? Did "tooting one's own horn" imply breaking wind during the annual performance review? Far and away the most common use of "toot" is playing a note on a horn.
At one point, Gargron, the main guy behind Mastodon, even mentioned using a trumpet as the basis of Mastodon's logo branding: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/962
"Toot" also has the double entendre. In all my life, I've never heard anyone outside a playground use it to describe flatulence. In my personal experience, it's almost always been about the musical notes. I'm not in a band or otherwise around musicians more than the average person, either.
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Mastodon's weaknesses and how to fix them
So basically I couldn’t change it to lowercase on their interface, but when deleted I could not register it again.
And that in a nutshell is my experience with everything Mastodon :)
After years the issue is still open and makes the first impression of a lot of users pretty bad.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20487
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Thoughts on Bluesky
I'm kind of being doom'n'gloom, but unfortunately, this always seems to happen, and folks who previously disavowed Twitter/X when Elon took over still stuck around for 2 years.
I don't believe the whole "I don't know what server to pick" complaint about Mastodon, because the mainsite literally has a huge button that says "Join mastodon.social"[1]
[1] https://joinmastodon.org/
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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.
It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago.
https://joinmastodon.org/
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Basic Mastodon repo stats
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10.0
5 days ago
mastodon/mastodon is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.
Mastodon is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Mastodon is Ruby.
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