Mastodon Alternatives

Mastodon reviews and mentions

• Applying some Rage to Discourse, Mastodon, and GitLab
  3 projects | dev.to | 23 Jun 2026

  Node.js (Express + ws) - a separate ~1400-line server subscribes to Redis and pushes events to clients over SSE or WebSockets.

• Mastodon: Don't use "Mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2026
• Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2026

  No, nothing cute like that.

  https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079

  The instance owner has absolute anonymity and absolute power to snoop with no access logs and no known identity. CCPA? GDPR? Access controls? Good luck! You can leave the instance, but you're leaving all your data behind for them or any future owner of the instance to do whatever they want with... forever.

  And even if you trust them and everyone they will ever meet, people can and do store their server logs unencrypted.

  Then argue they can't help it and you don't "get it" because that's just how the architecture has to work in order to... well it's not clear why this is a good design for the user or any better than other social media.

  1) You still don't own your data

• Mastodon.social can now display Mongolian script posts vertically
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2026
• My Next Chapter with Mastodon
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2025

  Fantastic!

  Now he's not there to block progress [0], can we remove Mastodon's intentional DDoS please and just include the link preview in the toot. Add a disclaimer on the UI saying "link preview comes from toot" if it makes you happy. Then Mastodon can be a good web citizen and not a force for evil.

  It's only been an open problem for 7 years. Nothing in the grand scheme of things.

  [0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/4486#issuecommen...

• Unix v4 Tape Found
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2025

  And the admin should probably use the automatic setting. There is a feature request for a user preference when not logged in.[1]

  [1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30193

• Ask HN: Is there an open source HN?
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2025
• Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2025

  Now, by default Mastodon follows your browser's light/dark theme preference.

  Mathstodon must have it's setting configured as dark, overriding the default.

  Maybe email them and ask for it to be fixed?

  https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29748/commits/9ece...

• Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
  30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2025

  Mastodon is not easy for regimes to completely block, and most instances won't block you for using Tor. Mastodon saw a huge migration from Brazil when X was blocked there.

  https://joinmastodon.org/

• Self-hosting a Mastodon Instance on a Hetzner Server
  3 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2025

  git clone https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon.git live cd live # checkout latest stable tag git checkout $(git tag -l | grep -v rc | tail -n 1) # install Ruby gems gem install bundler bundle config set deployment 'true' bundle config set without 'development test' bundle install # install JS packages yarn install --frozen-lockfile

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