Why this List?
Mastodon is the world’s largest free, open source, decentralized microblogging platform. This list contains all those really good tools and services related to Mastodon. It serves as a starting point to help you find orientation and get traction when it comes to Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Note: This List was originally provided by Roni Laukkarinen. You can find his source code here. His implementation can be found here. The following List will be updated if necessary. All credits goes to Roni Laukkarinen.
The List
Zeitfresser Mastodon Instance
- You can find me on Mastodon. I am running my own Mastodon Instance. If you want to join, just send me an E-Mail.
Other Mastodon lists
Getting started
- What is fediverse?
- Techdirt: Some Tricks To Making Mastodon Way More Useful
- Adam Fields: A brief introduction to Mastodon
- Buffer: A Beginner’s Guide to Mastodon
- TechCrunch: A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative
- TidBITS: Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking
Find followers
- Mastodon starter packs: Get follow recommendations and follow people directly via public lists and community starter packs
- Whom to Follow: Find accounts you’ll love by searching the network of accounts you already follow.
- Streetpass: StreetPass will build a list of Mastodon users made up of the websites you go to.
- Followgraph: This tool allows you to expand your connection graph and find new people to follow. It works by looking up your “follows’ follows”.
- Trunk categories to csv: This tool uses Trunk to generate a csv file that can be used on Mastodonto follow all the accounts from categories you choose.
- Fedi.directory: Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
- Fediverse.info: Discover people who have mutual interests
Moving to Mastodon from Twitter
- Mastodon Flock: Mastodon Flock is a web application that looks for Twitter users on ActivityPub-enabled platforms (the “Fediverse”), such as Mastodon.
- Movetodon: Find your Twitter Friends on Mastodon.
- Fedifinder: Join the Fediverse in 5 easy steps.
Tools to follow users on other instances
- FediAct: Chrome/Firefox extension that simplifies interactions on other Mastodon instances than your own.
- Tootski: Boost, follow, favorite, and share from outside your home Mastodon instance.
- Graze for Mastodon (Chrome): Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, and bookmark for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.
- Graze for Mastodon (Firefox): Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, and bookmark for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.
- Mastodon Profile Redirect: View Mastodon profiles on your Mastodon instance.
Statistics and metrics
- MastoMetrics: Track the growth of your Mastodon Account
- Fedi Circle Creator: Producing a visual representation of Mastodon interactions with JS
- Mastodon Circle Creator: Remember Twitter Circle generator? This is exactly that, but for Mastodon.
- Explore your fediverse connections: A data visualization project by Stefan Bohacek that lets you explore your connections across the Fediverse. Supports Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma/Akkoma, Misskey/Calckey.
- FediDB: Fediverse user growth, monthly active users and more.
News and top post aggregators
- Feditrends: Aggregating what’s trending across the fediverse.
- FeedSeer News for Mastodon: FeedSeer News allows you to see the most popular links that have appeared in your Mastodon feed over the past day.
- Quintessence: Quintessence shows you the top links that the people that you follow on Mastodon tooted or boosted in the last hours and the most notable toots that appeared in your timeline.
- FediBuzz: Trends in the Fediverse
Embed and sharing tools
- Mastopoet: A tool that allows you to capture Mastodon posts as beautiful images and share them across the Internet.
- Share Mastodon posts better: By default, the Messages app on iOS and macOS shows a pretty meh preview of Mastodon links. Now you can make them look so much nicer!
List tools
- Federike: Federike is a web app made to help you organize your Mastodon using lists.
Algorithms and feeds
- fediview: The algorithmic timeline for Mastodon
- foryoufeed: Fedi-Feed features a customizable algorithm for sorting your feed.
Timeline, discoverability and profile tools
- Fediverse Observer: Let’s find you a fediverse home!
- Substitoot — improved Mastodon federation: Loads missing replies to boosted toots directly from the source server.
- JustMyToots: This little page displays the toots but not the boosts for a user.
- Tootfinder: Proof of concept of an opt-in global Mastodon search.
- FediFetcher: A tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance.
Backup tools
- Mastodon Archive: Archive your statuses, favorites and media using the Mastodon API.
Miscellaneous
- #Fedipact: The instances blocking Zuckerberg’s Threads.net
- Fedi-Scraper Counter: A toxic list of programmers who have tried to build tools for the Fediverse. People have been added to this list without their consent.