Some useful Mastodon links
This is a curated list of useful Mastodon links.
Background image: a screenshot from fediverse.spaceꜛ.
How to use Mastodon
- Mastodon quick start guideꜛ
- mastodon.helpꜛ
- A more extended guide to Mastodon by Noëlle Anthonyꜛ
- 10 quick Mastodon tipsꜛ
- Daniel Schuman’s Mastodon Wikiꜛ
- How the Fediverse works by @cassolotl@eldritch.cafeꜛ
- How ActivityPub works by James Gayferꜛ
Find a server
- joinmastodon.orgꜛ
- instances.socialꜛ
- Debirdifyꜛ (a tool to search the people you follow on Twitter for possible Mastodon accounts)
- fedifinder.glitch.me
- itsfoss.com’s 7 Best Mastodon Instances You Can Joinꜛ
- Academics on Mastodonꜛ (a curated list of academics on Mastodon)
- unmung.comꜛ (preview local timelines of random or specific servers; there are even more tools included on this website)
Stats about servers and Mastodon
- Mastodon Users Botꜛ (a Mastodon bot posting every hour the current user counts for all known instances)
- fediverse.spaceꜛ (a tool to visualize networks and communities on the Fediverse)
- FediDBꜛ (a database for viewing the current stats (user counts, status counts, Mastodon version) of a server)
- the-federation.infoꜛ (a database for viewing the current stats (user counts, status counts, Mastodon version) of a server)
- Fediverse Observer (a database for viewing the current stats (user statistics, up- and down-times, network traffic speed) of a server; also helps you to find a matching server and provides a geographical mapꜛ of all listed instances)
Other useful links
- Official Mastodon documentation websiteꜛ
- How to write direct messagesꜛ
- How to move an account to another server
- ubuntubuzz.com’s 10 Hidden Useful Tricks For Mastodon Usersꜛ
- Mastodon appsꜛ
- Mastodon branding toolkitꜛ
- Mastodon schedulerꜛ (a scheduler for your toots)
- moa.party (link your Mastodon account to Twitter)
- fontawesome Mastodon iconꜛ
- Pixelfedꜛ (a free and open-source photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation)
- D.Tubeꜛ (a blockhain based decentralized video streaming platform)
- Peertubeꜛ (a decentralized video streaming platform)
Friendly reminder
At the end, a friendly reminder: Don’t forget to support your local Mastodon instance and the Mastodon projectꜛ.
You can support Mastodonꜛ, e.g., on Patreon.
