Social networking that's not for sale.

Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people.

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Stay in control of your own timeline

Decentralized social media is created and maintained by its users, making you the owner of your feed. You can be as public or as private as you like and curate your own experience.

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Build your audience

Joining a server on Mastodon provides you with the power to communicate with any server across the globe. Meet like-minded people and make your corner of the internet a little more like you. Need more from Mastodon? Host your own server.

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Moderating the way it should be

Mastodon puts decision making back in the hands of the people. Each server creates their own rules and regulations, which are enforced locally and not top-down like corporate social media. Self-hosting grants even more control by letting you decide the rules.

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Why Mastodon?

Decentralized

Instant global communication is too important to belong to one company. Each Mastodon server is a completely independent entity, able to interoperate with others to form one global social network.

Open Source

Mastodon is free and open-source software. We believe in your right to use, copy, study and change Mastodon as you see fit, and we benefit from contributions from the community.

Not for Sale

We respect your agency. Your feed is curated and created by you. We will never serve ads or push profiles for you to see. That means your data and your time are yours and yours alone.

Interoperable

Built on open web protocols, Mastodon can speak with any other platform that implements ActivityPub. With one account you get access to a whole universe of social apps—the fediverse.

What our users are saying

I've made so many friends on Mastodon because I can actually talk to people instead of getting buried by algorithms that reward meaningless numbers over actual interaction.

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trwnh@mastodon.social

Mastodon does an amazing job at giving communities the autonomy necessary to thrive by giving them the keys to federate and moderate their own servers. But don't let that alone overshadow the fact that it simply does features that the major social networks try to do (e.g. image captioning, content warnings) astoundingly better.

Jenn Schiffer

jenn@toot.cafe

Mastodon has changed my opinion of social media, it's a refreshing take on microblogging with a focus on privacy and safety.

dansup

dansup@mastodon.social

I've been on federated platforms since 2008. Mastodon is the best iteration of federated platforms with a user interface that is pleasant to use and a community of folks that I consider friends.

Craig Maloney

craigmaloney@octodon.social

Mastodon is a privacy-friendly way to communicate with people which are interested in my work and the work of my authority. social.bund.de gives us the opportunity to incubate Mastodon accounts even for other federal authorities.

Ulrich Kelber

ulrichkelber@bonn.social

Mastodon allowed us to create a non-profit, abuse-free social network based on open web standards and principles, all the while allowing our moderators and members to reinvigorate the early web values of community, camaraderie and respect using modern, accessible technologies.

Jaz

jaz@toot.wales

Mastodon is a well-moderated fully-functional microblogging service with some great features!

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jarm@qdon.space

It's social media with moderation that actually works.

voronoi potato

Vopo@mastodon.social

I could have joined an existing community, but I decided to self-host Mastodon.My posts to the world are replicated from my own servers and can be traced back to their originals. Since I own it, the platform will not be terminated or removed at the platform's discretion, and I can provide a long and stable service. I finally have this. Yay!

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noellabo@fedibird.com

It's good software

halcy

halcy@icosahedron.website

Great community, friendly atmosphere, and free software! What else would you possibly need?

autumncheney

AutumnCheney@mastodon.social

I wanted to have a federated social network since 2013 that looked and felt great and where I can connect to like-minded people. Mastodon just gave me the last puzzle piece and I absolutely love it! Probably spend more than five hours a day on my own little space with a friendly community that truly cares.

Leonie

koyuchan@koyu.space

I'm personally addicted to Mastodon, for me it's like if Facebook or Twitter had a friendly version— where I can discuss things with people around the world about every single thing they love. If there's a subreddit for everything, of course there's also a Mastodon community for everything: I've got one profile for sharing art, another one for casual conversation and another one for politics.