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+---
+title: Mastodon
+language: en
+translationKey: projects-mastodon
+disable_feed: true
+layout: project
+name: Mastodon
+author: Gargron
+authorURL: https://zeonfederated.com/
+maintainers:
+  - name: Mastodon gGmbH
+    URL: https://joinmastodon.org/
+projectURL: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
+projectStatus: active
+categories: ["software", "social network"]
+tags: ["social network", "federation", "fediverse"]
+---
+
+*Mastodon* is a [federated][fedi] social network, with a Twitter-like
+<abbr title="user interface">UI</abbr>.
+
+[fedi]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
+
+# Features
+
+- Content feeds: **home** (posts from accounts you follow), **local** (public
+  posts from accounts on the same instance), and **federated** (public posts
+  from connected servers)
+- Character limit: 500, which is much longer than Twitter 
+  <abbr title="for what it's worth">fwiw</abbr>
+- Customizable web UI
+- Various available clients on all platforms
+- Instance custom emojis
+- Moderation
+  - Instance admins are capable of blocking contents from other servers on
+      different levels
+  - Normal members are capable of mute and block other users or instances, and
+      filter words
+- Accounts can be exported and migrated to another server (posts are not
+    migrated, however)
+
+# Forks
+
+Mastodon has a few forks, the most two popular ones are [Mastodon Glitch
+Edition][gs] and [hometown][ht], which provides some extra features.
+
+[gs]: https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon
+[ht]: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/
+
+# Personal opinions
+
+Overall, Mastodon gives a nice and intuitive user interface.  It also provides
+quite flexible tools for moderating your timeline.  However, this can be abused
+by some instance admins who would block other instances without specific
+reason, which pretty much defeats the purpose of federation.
+
+Mastodon doesn't support markups (the [glitch-soc][gs] fork does,
+<abbr title="as far as I know">afaik</abbr>).  This can be limiting if you like
+embedding links into the text.  For this reason, I prefer
+[Pleroma][pleroma].
+
+# See also
+
+- Guides:
+  - [Kev's guide][kevq]
+  - [joyeusenoelle's guide](https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon)
+  - [Göktuǧ's tips on federated social networks][cadadr]
+- Mastodon instance lists:
+  - [joinmastodon.org endorsed list][mastodon.org]
+  - [instances.noct.zone](https://instances.noct.zone/)
+- Other microblogging social networks:
+  - [Pleroma][pleroma]
+  - [Misskey][misskey]
+
+[kevq]: https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/
+[mastodon.org]: https://joinmastodon.org/communities
+[cadadr]: https://toot.cat/@cadadr/106561338340521311
+[pleroma]: /projects/pleroma/
+[misskey]: /projects/misskey/