awesome-mastodon

Mastodon toolkit

A curated list of tools and resources for building applications on the Mastodon platform.

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Awesome Mastodon / Clients / Web

Agora ( ) - Follow your interests across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads
Brutaldon ( ) - Brutaldon is a brutalist, Web 1.0 web interface for Mastodon
Cuckoo+ ( ) - a GooglePlus-like third-party web client for Mastodon
Elk ⭐ ( | | ) - a nimble Mastodon web client
Halcyon Instances ( | | | ) - Alternative web client for Mastodon and Pleroma with a Twitter-like interface,
Kaiteki ( | | ) - The comfy SNS client for everything, everywhere, available for Web, Windows, Linux and Android,
Mastodeck ( ) - a Tweetdeck-like interface for Mastodon; 'advanced' interface with multiple verticle columns; highly customisable,
Phanpy ( | | ) - a minimalistic, opinionated web client for Mastodon
Pinafore ( ) - Alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity, ,

Awesome Mastodon / Clients / Web / Pinafore

Semaphore ( | | ) - a continuation of Pinafore

Awesome Mastodon / Clients / Web

Sengi ( | | ) - a multi-account Mastodon and Pleroma desktop client
Statuzer ( ) - a multi-accounts, multi-columns Mastodon frontend,
TheDesk ( | | ) - a Mastodon/Misskey client from the developer of TootDesk for iOS and TheDesk for Desktop
Tooty ( ) - Experimental multi-account Mastodon Web client,
trunks ( ) - a cross-platform app with rich features,

Awesome Mastodon / Clients / Mobile

Mastodon apps feature comparison Collaborative Google sheet that provides a comparison of features across the various Android and iOS Mastodon apps
AndStatus ( | | | ) - a client for multiple Social networks (Mastodon, Twitter, ActivityPub, GNU social, Pump.io), can combine feeds from all networks into one Timeline, and allows reading and posting even when offline
Fedilab ⭐ ( | | | || ) - a multifunctional Android client to access the distributed Fediverse
Gakki ( ) - a client with a nice-looking UI ,
Ivory an elegant client that focuses on usability and simplicity, ,
Kaiteki ( | | ) - The comfy SNS client for everything, everywhere, available for Web, Windows, Linux and Android,
Mastodon ( | | ) - the official Mastodon mobile app
Megalodon ⭐ ( | ) - a fork of the official Mastodon app adding certain features including the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer
Moshidon ⭐ ( | | ) - a fork of the above-mentioned Megalodon app adding certain features and tweaks on top of Megalodon's features
Shitter 232 about 2 months ago ( | ) - a lightweight app for (Twitter/) Mastodon
Subway Tooter ( | ) - highly customisable Mastodon client
tooot ( | ) - a simple mobile client of Mastodon, started with a focus for Chinese community
trunks ( ) - a cross-platform app with rich features,
Tusky ⭐ ( | | | ) - a lightweight client for Mastodon
Husky ⭐ ( | ) - a fork of Tusky with Pleroma-specific additions
koyu.space ( ) - a fork of the above-mentioned Husky,
Yuito ( | ) - a fork of Tusky for Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed etc
Twidere ( | | ) - Material Design ready and feature rich Twitter/Mastodon/Fanfou app, ,
Twidere X ( | ) - Next generation of Twidere,
Dawn ( || ) - providing an easy-to-use interface while taking full advantage of Mastodon's features
Dudu ( ) - a multiplatform (Android and iOS) client written in Flutter
Feather ( | || ) - a client that pursues comfort and customization
Fedicat Testflight ( | | || ) - multiplatform fediverse client (built with TootSDK) with an emphasis on alt-text
Fedigardens Testflight ( | | || ) - a simplified, discussion-driven experience for Mastodon
Herd ( ) - A brand new Mastodon client for iOS - be heard with Herd!
Ice Cubes ⭐ ( | | ) - a fast, reliable and beautiful Mastodon client
iMast -
Ivory ⭐ ( | || ) - by the makers of TweetBot for Twitter
Mammoth ( | | | ) - a beautiful Mastodon app by the maker of Aviary for Twitter
Manny ( ) - a powerful, fast and extremely cute Mastodon client
Maser ( | || ) - a powerful and feature-rich Mastodon client that brings the world of decentralized social networking to your fingertips
Mast: for Mastodon ( || ) - a beautiful Mastodon app built with macOS design guidelines in mind,
Mastodon ( | | ) - the official Mastodon mobile app
Mastoot ( | ) - a simple client app for Mastodon
Masty ( ) - A beautiful and featurefull Mastodon client!
Mercury for Mastodon ( ) - a customisable client for the Mastodon and Pleroma social networks,
Metatext ( | ) - a modern and accessible Mastodon client, ,
Mona ( || ( || ) - superfast performance, truly native design and a highly customizable user interface, from the developer of Spring for Twitter
Osakadon ( ) - ,
Oyakodon ( ) - supports switching Mastodon instances by just swiping,
Pipilo ( | ) - Fediverse client with a horizontally scrolling timeline
Radiant ( | ) - Fast and customisable with incredible features, wrapped in a beautiful iOS native design
Sora SNS ( | ) - Connect with Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, and Bluesky instances
Stella ( ) - Mastodon, Twitter &News Client
tooot ( | ) - a simple mobile client of Mastodon, started with a focus for Chinese community
Toot! ( || ) - a beautiful, and full of character and whimsy
TootDesk ( | ) - a Mastodon client from the developer of TheDesk for Desktop
Tootter a simple Mastodon client
Tootle for Mastodon ( ) - a multifunctional Mastodon client,
Tootoise ( ) - a simple Mastodon client
Mastodon TootyGraph ( | ) - a playful, photography-focussed, fediverse client app for iOS
Trunk Testflight ( ) - with a unique scrolling concept for better engagement and more focus on each individual post
trunks ( | ) - a cross-platform app with rich features
Tusker ( | ) - a flexible client for Mastodon and other compatible services
Twidere X ( | ) - cross-platform, customizable, clean client with plentiful functions for Twitter and Mastodon,
Woolly for Mastodon ( ) -
Oxpecker for Mastodon ( | ) - a Mastodon client for the Apple Watch
Linky ( | ) - lets you easily share webpage links, images and text extracts to Mastodon
Topiary ( ) - Manage your Mastodon account
Tooter 19 over 4 years ago Native client for SailfishOS,

Awesome Mastodon / Clients / Desktop (Cross-Platform)

Elk Native 377 5 months ago ( | | ) - Native version of Elk, a nimble Mastodon web client
fedistar ( ) - Multi-column Fediverse client application for desktop (Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica)
Mastodon Explorer unique, search-based desktop client for Mac, Windows or Linux, no Mastodon account needed,
Mastotron 132 almost 2 years ago ( | ) - A new interface to Mastodon, and other experiments in social media,
Sengi 538 4 months ago ( | | ) - a multi-account Mastodon and Pleroma desktop client
TheDesk 280 3 months ago ( | | ) - a Mastodon/Misskey client from the developer of TootDesk for iOS
Twidere X 996 3 months ago ( | | | ) - cross-platform, customizable, clean client with plentiful functions for Twitter and Mastodon,
Whalebird 901 4 days ago ( | | ) - an Electron-based Mastodon, Pleroma and Misskey client for Windows, Mac and Linux
Ellie ( | ) - a Mastodon client for Windows, right at home on your desktop,
Mast: for Mastodon ( ) - a macOS Mastodon client,
Mastonaut ( | | ) - a macOS Mastodon client, ,
Mona 28 over 1 year ago ( || ) - superfast performance, truly native design and a highly customizable user interface from the developer of Spring for Twitter,
Tokodon ( | ) - a KDE Plasma client
mastodon.el Mastodon (+ Pleroma) client for Emacs

Awesome Mastodon / Clients / CLI

toot 1,163 7 days ago Mastodon CLI client (Python)
madonctl 194 5 months ago Mastodon CLI client (Go)
tut 450 11 months ago Mastodon TUI client (Go)

Awesome Mastodon / Lists / User Lists

Various Notable Accounts (Media, Politics, Tech, Ukraine, and more)
Academics on Mastodon 927 about 1 month ago a list of academics on Mastodon
#LawFedi: Lawyers and Legal Academics on Mastodon a list of lawyers and legal academics on Mastodon
FediPages directory of Fediverse users
Public spreadsheet of popular/famous/notable Mastodon accounts
Mastodon Journalists and US Progressives
Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse
PressCheck find verified journalists on Mastodon
The Walt List Walt Shaub’s list of prolific posters — mostly US politics
EduTooters Unite! - Mastodon #EduTooters and #K12Librarians Lists
FediFied notable Twitter users now in the Fediverse

Awesome Mastodon / Lists / User Lists / FediFied

Fedified - Discover Mastodon A dynamic collection of engaging Mastodon accounts, organized by topic area

Awesome Mastodon / Lists / User Lists

Trunk for the Fediverse a list of lists of users to follow
Fedi.Directory human-curated small selection of interesting accounts to help you get started on Mastodon and the Fediverse
Fediverse.info search for users who post about a certain topic
WordPress Community the WordPress community on Mastodon
InfoSec account names curated by Lukasz Olejnik, cybersecurity and privacy researcher

Awesome Mastodon / Lists / Server Lists

Mastodon instances (instances.social) List of Mastodon instances
Mastodon server list List of Mastodon server instances
Mastodon quick scan spreadsheet list of large and mid-size Mastodon instances
Fediverse Observer Mastodon List
FediDB Mastodon List
mastodon-near-me a visual map of Fediverse instances that operate primarily in or that are targeted towards specific territories, regions, or localities
#Education Friendly #Mastodon Instances
Fediversesearch search for instances
Fediverse.to fediverse instance search
Mapstodon a graph visualisation of fediverse instances
The Federation fediverse statistics
FediDevs Discover fantastic devs from across the fediverse
WordPress Mastodon/Fediverse Directory a directory of WordPress sites with ActivityPub support

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Migration

Movetodon helps you locate the users you follow on Twitter who have Mastodon handles in their bios and allows you to follow them directly; no exporting and importing of CSVs required
Twitodon helps you locate the users you follow on Twitter who have Mastodon handles in their bios; exports a CSV that you can import into Mastodon
Fedifinder helps you locate the users you follow on Twitter who have Mastodon handles in their bios; exports a CSV that you can import into Mastodon
Debirdify searches across the users you follow and your Twitter lists to locate users who have Fediverse handles; helps you identify instances relevant to your interests; exports a CSV that you can import into Mastodon
Mastodon Flock helps you find users who follow on Twitter who are also on Mastodon, via a Windows 95-style wizard
Twittodon allows you to verify connection between your Twitter and Mastodon accounts and adds you to a open database with people who already verified their connection
Fossilize 19 almost 2 years ago GitHub Action that helps you backup Mastodon account items to CSV files
MastodonContentMover A command-line tool that downloads your posts from one Mastodon instance, saving them as a set of files on your computer, and then re-posts them on any other Mastodon instance. Its purpose is to allow Mastodon users to move content they value when migrating from one instance to another, which is not currently possible within Mastodon itself
Preview domain blocks before moving to a new Mastodon instance tool that lets you see which contacts (your followers and accounts you follow) you’d lose if you were to move to a new Mastodon instance and what instances are defederated by the new instance

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Fediverse discovery

Fediverse Explorer Trending hashtags and popular toots, regenerated every hour
#FediBuzz trending hashtags by language, live
Followgraph find users followed by many of the people you follow
FediScope find fediverse accounts for people in a field using Wikidata
FediSearch Search for people across indexed instances, via their bio/name
Whom To Follow Find smaller accounts you'll like; works with Mastodon/Pleroma/Friendica/more

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Toot discovery

unmung.com/mastoview Preview the local or federated timeline of any instance
mastodon_digest 438 over 1 year ago Python script that aggregates recent popular posts from your Mastodon timeline
fediview web app that aggregates the recent popular posts from your Mastodon timeline
Quintessence web page that generates the latest links that have been shared the most among the people you follow
Blogofy Search for hashtags across indexed instances, or discover currently trending hashtags across indexed instances
Tootfinder ( ) - Proof of concept of an opt-in, full-text, global Mastodon search
FeedSeer shows you the most popular links that have appeared on your Mastodon feed over the past day
Toot2Mail 0 18 days ago Generate notification emails from Mastodon toots, useful to passively follow users and hashtags

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Toot management

Buffer Schedule and publish content on Mastodon, Twitter, Instagram, and other platforms
Forget Delete toots after a user defined period of time (Python )
Toot scheduler Schedule now, toot later
Thread counter by @axbom helps you split long posts into a numbered thread
Chirr App ( )- a web app that intelligently splits a long tweets into a thread; pro users

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Analytics and Metrics

Metricdon Account and audience analytics, tweet performance tracking, backup and archival
hueyy/mastodon-lists-manager tool for managing lists and followed users on Mastodon
Mastolists tool for managing lists (list view, matrix view and table view)
acbeers/mastodonlm a simple list manager, bulit in the style of Twitter List Manager

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Cross-posting

Mastodon Twitter Crossposter Service to crosspost to and from Twitter (rate-limited by Twitter to 300 per hour for the entire application)
Moa
brandur/mastodon-cross-post 6 about 2 years ago golang script that crossposts tweets to Mastodon
AmauryCarrade/MastodonToTwitter 250 over 3 years ago Mastodon ⬄ Twitter real-time cross-poster, using streaming APIs
BirdsiteLIVE ⭐ - a tool to follow Twitter users on Mastodon easily (Feel free to deploy your own instance if you plan to follow a lot of users)
Nootti iOS/iPad cross-poster app for Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Webpage

emfed 78 5 months ago embed your Mastodon feed onto a web page
Last aggregates toots on a web page providing Atom feed and an epub (Perl)
JustMyToots 23 4 months ago create a simple site that displays the toots but not the boosts for a particular user. It helps people that want to showcase their toots, for example when doing jokes, drawings, photos or any other form of content people might want to look back through
Masto Reader Equivalent to Thread Reader App from Twitter, "reader mode" for long threads

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Archiving

mastodon-archive-static-site a Python script to convert a Mastodon user archive into a static site
Mastodon archive HTML generator 8 9 days ago ( ) - tool for creating a static Mastodon user's archive
Mastodon Archive a command line tool to create an archive of your toots, favourites and mentions such that you can search them, turn them into text files, static HTML, or expire them
meow viewer for Mastodon export files
kit-ty-kate/mastodon-archive-viewer 25 about 2 years ago view your Mastodon archive offline
blackle/mastodon-data-viewer.py 125 9 months ago a viewer for mastodon export data

Awesome Mastodon / Tools / Misc

emojis.in view the custom emojis available on a Mastodon instance
Mastodon Link Debugger figure out why your links do not get verified
Mastinator disposable public anonymous no-login Fediverse accounts
Mastodon Bookmark RSS expose your bookmarks as private RSS feed to read later, or for archival
Mastowatch iOS/macOS app that allows you to inspect the public config and details of any Mastodon server without having to log in or register
Mastopoet Mastodon post screenshot tool that allows you to create beautiful screenshots of toots for sharing

Awesome Mastodon / Extensions

mastodon-simplified-federation 256 7 months ago Firefox extension that simplifies following or interacting with other users on remote Mastodon instances in the Fediverse
FediAct 463 over 1 year ago Chrome / Firefox extension that simplifies follow and post interactions on Mastodon servers other than your own
Mastodon Link 33 9 months ago Chrome extension that adds a clickable mastodon icon next to mastodon usernames to visit their profile on your instance for ease of following
Mastodon View Profile 98 about 1 year ago Chrome extension that adds a button to the toolbar to visit a profile on your instance ease of following
Graze for Mastodon ⭐ - Chrome & Firefox extension that enables 1-click follow, favorite, boost, and bookmark for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home
StreetPass ⭐ - an extension that collects links from websites that you visit so you can find people to follow on Mastodon based on the sites you visit
Thicctodon a browser extension that lets you change the width of columns in Mastodon's advanced view

Awesome Mastodon / Extensions / Bookmarklets

Mastodon Toot Bookmarklet Bookmarklet to toot the current page ( )
Mastodon #nowplaying Toot Bookmarklet Bookmarklet to toot the music you're currently listening to. Works with YouTube. ( )

Awesome Mastodon / Extensions / User styles

Variable width Makes Mastodon scale with the browser's width
Narrow drawer With the variable width style, makes the drawer narrower and the other columns scale accordingly
Mastodon Modern ⭐ - Drastically improves the look & feel of Mastodon. Can be used with other themes that only change colors
Mastodon Advanced View Plus ⭐ - Adds more options for Mastodon's advanced view

Awesome Mastodon / Extensions / User scripts

NSFW Remover Automatically display NSFW images
Customizable interface Move and resize columns on a grid
BirdSite Browser extension for cross-posting Mastodon toots to Twitter
MastoVue Embedded MastoVue embedded into Mastodon
Mastodon Redirector Redirect any Mastodon app to your favourite one

Awesome Mastodon / Guides

GuideToMastodon 925 about 1 year ago an increasingly less brief guide to Mastodon
Fedi.Tips informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
A non-computer-person’s guide to how Mastodon instances work
TechCrunch: A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative
Clive Thompson: Come Join Me On Mastodon, Folks
Per Axbom: A Brief Mastodon Guide for Social Media Worriers
Mastodon Privacy Guide 37 about 2 years ago a guide on data protection obligations, challenges & pitfalls for Mastodon users & instance admins
Mastodon 101 for Journalists
The Verge: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter? CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network

Awesome Mastodon / Guides / History

#MastodonNews Archive
Twitter is Going Great!
Mastodon: a partial history
Fediverse Report

Awesome Mastodon / Guides / Essays

Fediverse & Mastodon Essays a list of essays about Mastodon and the Fediverse

Awesome Mastodon / Guides / Migration

Erin Kissane: Notes from a Mastodon migration

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Microblogging

Mastodon Most popular microblogging platform

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Microblogging / Mastodon

Mastodon Glitch Edition (glitch-soc) a Mastodon fork with additional features such as rich text formatting and local-only toots
Hometown 753 5 months ago a lightweight fork of Mastodon that supports local-only toots and more content types

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Microblogging

GnuSocial Oldest microblogging platform
Pleroma Lightweight, customisable microblogging platform

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Microblogging / Pleroma

Akkoma a Pleroma fork with more features and a faster pace of development

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Microblogging

Misskey feature-packed microblogging platform; supports reactions to posts

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Microblogging / Misskey

Calckey fork of Misskey with better UI/UX, security, features, etc
Foundkey fork of Misskey that improves on maintainability and behaviour, while also bringing in useful features

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Microblogging

Microblog.pub Single-user lightweight microblogging platform
NextCloud Social Microblogging app for the Nextcloud platform
GotoSocial 3,819 7 days ago fast and efficient ActivityPub server written in Golang, still in alpha
Takahē an efficient ActivityPub server for microblogging with multiple support for multiple domains

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Blogging

Plume Blogging platform
WriteFreely Blogging platform
WordPress ActivityPub WordPress plugin for adding ActivityPub support to any WordPress site
Drupal ActivityPub Drupal module that implements ActivityPub on a Drupal site
Prismo Link aggregation platform
Lemmy Reddit-like link aggregator and forum

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Others

Friendica Facebook/Myspace-like social network platform
PixelFed Instagram-like photograph sharing platform
PeerTube Youtube-like video sharing platform
FunkWhale Soundcloud-like audio sharing platform
Hubzilla Blog/social networks platform with file, contacts and events sharing
BookWyrm Goodreads/Librarything-like book social network
OwnCast Decentralized self-hosted video streaming platform
Castopod Decentralized podcast hosting platform

Awesome Mastodon / Federated services / Apps for Federated Services

Jerboa for Lemmy ( | ) - a native android app for
lemmur ( ) - A mobile client for , ,
Pixelcat 87 almost 3 years ago ( ) - beautiful and fast, focuses on images and is primarily intended to be used with , but it works with Mastodon and Pleroma as well, ,
PixelDroid ⭐ ( | | ) - a client for , the federated image sharing platform
Pixelfed ⭐ ( ) - the official app
Pixelfed Testflight ⭐ ( | ) - the official app

Awesome Mastodon / Bots / Bot accounts

Please Caption Bot ⭐ - A bot that reminds you to caption your toots' images and videos (e.g. to help the visually impaired)
Alt Text Reminder A bot that reminds you to add alt text, similar to Please Caption Bot
a11y Link Bot A bot that warns you if you are linking to websites that are inaccessible
Trending Bot Shows you what's trending on Mastodon
Mastodon Users Bot Posts the user count for all known Mastodon instances once an hour
Bots in Space a Mastodon instance with various kinds of bots
Twitter Bots to Mastodon Migration List a list of Twitter bots that plan to migrate to Mastodon after
Fediverse bots on Botwiki A list of fediverse bots grouped by category

Awesome Mastodon / Bots / Bots for self-hosting

usercount 53 over 1 year ago Bot which posts user statistics to Mastodon (Python)
hnbot 40 about 6 years ago Posts the Hacker News stories with 100+ points (Python)
Remindr Automatically send reminders to both Mastodon and Twitter from a list of resources (Python)
News Bot 192 about 3 years ago mirrors Twitter accounts on Mastodon (ClojureScript)
Welcome Bot 11 almost 2 years ago Automatically send a welcome DM to new users (Python)
~qeef/bot-allowed-tooters Toots DMs from a whitelist of accounts. Useful for announcements

Awesome Mastodon / Bots / RSS

feed2toot Automatically parses RSS feeds, identifies new posts and posts them on Mastodon (Python)
rss-to-activitypub 6 almost 4 years ago not a bot, but a simple server that converts an RSS feed into an ActivityPub actor that can be followed on Mastodon
MastoFeed automated and super easy tool to send the content from your RSS Feeds to any Mastodon instance
feediverse 116 about 1 month ago Python script that posts RSS feed items to ActivityPub

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / Python

Mastodon.py 884 9 months ago Python wrapper for the Mastodon API
atoot 21 over 4 years ago asynchronous Python client library for the Mastodon API

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / Javascript

Megalodon 250 6 days ago Mastodon API client library for node.js

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / PHP

ActivityPHP 263 8 months ago PHP implementation of ActivityPub

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / Golang

go-mastodon 604 27 days ago Mastodon client library for Golang
madon 72 5 months ago Golang client library for the Mastodon API

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / Kotlin

mastodonk 27 over 1 year ago Mastodon client library for Kotlin

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / Swift

TootSDK 366 6 days ago a Swift package for creating apps that interact with Mastodon, Pleroma and other Fediverse APIs

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / Clojure

thefox 2 over 6 years ago incomplete and unmaintained Clojure library for handling ActivityPub interactions

Awesome Mastodon / Libraries / Embedded systems

Lyuba 31 about 2 years ago Arduino library for tooting and retrieving toots matching a certain hashtag

Awesome Mastodon / FediAdmin / Managed hosting

Masto.host Fully managed Mastodon hosting
WebApe German-based Mastodon hosting service; also provides PeerTube, Nextcloud, Friendica, Matrix, Jitsi Meet, CryptPad and WordPress hosting
toot.io Mastodon hosting service that serves HPC at University of Texas Austin, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), amongst others
IKNOX
HostDon Japan-based Mastodon hosting service
SpaceBear
CloudPlane
Fedi Monster Mastodon hosting service; supports hosting glitch-soc and Hometown forks; also provides Pixelfed and GotoSocial hosting
Ossrox German-based Mastodon hosting service; also provides Peertube, Matomo, Cryptpad, Matrix, and Jitsi Meet hosting, amongst others
ungleich Mastodon hosting service based in Switzerland

Awesome Mastodon / FediAdmin / VPCs

DigitalOcean Mastodon Droplet
Linode Mastodon App
Cloudflare Wildebeest ( | ) - an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server whose goal is to allow anyone to operate their Fediverse server and identity on their domain without needing to keep infrastructure, with minimal setup and maintenance, and running in minutes

Awesome Mastodon / FediAdmin / Tools

FakeRelay 70 11 months ago tool for Mastodon admins to load statuses from other instances into their own instance
FediCheck allows self-hosted and managed host Mastodon admins to routinely sync with a range of denylists to block bad actor servers
RelayList A list of relays that can be added to a Mastodon, Misskey, or Pleroma server

Awesome Mastodon / FediAdmin / Themes

mastodon-bird-ui 473 11 days ago Mastodon web UI, but strongly inspired by Twitter. CSS file that you can use with any Mastodon instance or which can be installed by the instance administrator
mastomods 115 10 months ago CSS tweaks and custom themes for Mastodon
Catppuccin for Mastodon 523 6 days ago Soothing pastel theme for Mastodon

Awesome Mastodon / FediAdmin / Guides

rixx.de: On Running a Mastodon Instance
EFF: User Generated Content and the Fediverse - A Legal Primer
A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance
Notes on operating fediverse services (Mastodon, Pleroma etc) from an English law point of view
Mastodon as comment system for your static blog
Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Jekyll website

Awesome Mastodon / FediAdmin / Lists

nev/awesome-fediadmin a collection of awesome resources for running your own federated social media website
fediverse/fediverse-ideas a collection of ideas for possible Fediverse projects

Awesome Mastodon / Contributors

Huey
Markus Huggler
Stefano Bonora
jan
Markus Unterwaditzer
mooseyboots
Alexander Haslam
KaKi87
Misha Ketslah
Jimmy Thomas
Kevin
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