For any enquiry regarding this announcement, please contact press joinmastodon.org Mastodon was founded on the principles that people should be able to control their social circle online, curate their own timeline, and convene freely with any community of their choosing. We believe social media...

   Trunk amp; Tidbits, December A belated happy wish, from the Mastodon team although, if you’ve been paying attention, there has been some important news already this month . We’re a little later than planned in posting a summary of the work that happened during December, but let’s get...

   If you’re curious how Mastodon is doing by the numbers, the Annual Report is finally here. A bit late in the year, perhaps, but we’ve got a lot more numbers to share this time Mastodon is a non profit, and open source, so we revel in the transparency. How large is our budget, and where does...

   Trunk amp; Tidbits, November Hi everyone We’re back with our monthly engineering update, looking back at a busy November. General news We were pleased to see our friends at NGI Next Generation Internet announce a major transition to using Mastodon and PeerTube as primary communication...

   Trunk amp; Tidbits, October Welcome back to our monthly engineering series. In October, our long anticipated plushies got out into the wild mostly in Europe, for now , and we were busy tuning the code and planning what’s next. This is also a larger entry in our blog series, for updates from...

   Trunk amp; Tidbits, September Hello, friends It’s time for another installment of our engineering updates series. Here’s what’s been happening in the code this past month. Releases Mastodon . is here After months of hard work, several beta versions, and a release candidate for testing,...

   Mastodon . just landed If you’re a mastodon.social user, you might have already seen some of this in action as we’ve been gradually rolling out these updates over the course of the last months in nightly releases, but we’re finally making a new stable release available to the community. If...

   Trunk amp; Tidbits, August It was a big month for the Mastodon team, with a lot of work going into getting the first beta release of version . ready but that’s not all that we’ve worked on. Here is our monthly update on what we’ve been up to. Releases During August, we released versions ...

   Trunk amp; Tidbits, July Hey, friends here is another instalment in our engineering updates series. This is what has been happening in the code lately. Team Updates At the very end of July we opened a role for an iOS developer to look after the official Mastodon for iOS app. If you are...

   The European Union must keep funding free software The Next Generation Internet NGI program from the European Commission has been crucial for the development of many open source products, including Mastodon. They are one of the best initiatives worldwide to finance work on OSS projects. The...

   Looking back at June and just sneaking in to the start of July , we have a lot to share with you. Let’s dive in Growing the team First of all, we are delighted to announce a new member of the core development team David Roetzel joined us as a core web developer. Welcome, dave Keeping things...

   To reinforce and encourage Mastodon as the go to place for journalism, we’re launching a new feature today. You will notice that underneath some links shared on Mastodon, the author byline can be clicked to open the author’s associated fediverse account, right in the app. This highlights writers...

   Welcome again to Trunk amp; Tidbits, our engineering updates blog series. Let us fill you in on what we’ve been focused on during this past month. Releases you should know about During May, we released some important updates for the . and . releases, and nightly builds. They contain minor...

   Welcome to the first in a planned ongoing series of updates from the core Mastodon engineering team. We’ll also take a quick look at what’s been happening around the broader community. What we’ve been working on The Mastodon . release is around the corner we only have one big feature grouped...

   As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a c non profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax deductible U.S. donations and in kind support. We’re excited to...

   After we’ve released our new line of merch last year, we’ve heard a lot of questions about a potential stuffed toy. After all, our official mascot is so suitable. But it is, problematically, a two dimensional character. We sat down with our artist, Dopatwo, to try and imagine what a character like...

   At the beginning of February, our team attended our very first conference at FOSDEM in Brussels. As a remote only company, it was also the first time a lot of us met each other in real life. It was a very fun time, and a lot of people came up to take selfies in front of our company roll up, buy our...

   In our most recent Mastodon for Android release, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb unneccesary negativity that comes from being on the Internet. Complete strangers using an overly familiar tone, offering unsolicited advice, or starting arguments that are completely besides the point these...

   Today we would like to thank Sujitech for kindly donating k USD to Mastodon, by far the largest single donation to our non profit so far. Building Mastodon, which encompasses the core software on one end, and two native mobile applications on the other, is not cheap, and we can only afford a...

   The most recent update of Mastodon for Android introduces a highly anticipated feature lists. With the new update, you now have the ability to create custom lists and categorize your follows based on specific topics or interests, while removing them from your home feed. This not only helps in...

   Some of your were asking for it, some of you had no idea it was coming. The Annual Report is ready As a non profit organization supported exclusively by donations, we like to keep our community updated on our yearly progress, and was an interesting year to say the least. Keep in mind...

   As Mastodon continues to grow, we’d like to make sure we’re doing all we can to help you connect with your friends and your interests. Most importantly, we want to bring you features that make it much easier to connect with people that matter to you. In this version we overhauled search. The...

   To help us raise more funds for our development efforts, we are launching a new line of merchandise for Mastodon including t shirts, mugs, enamel pins, and stickers. Our artist, Dopatwo, has come up with brand new, exclusive designs for each item, and we’ve partnered with FRESH Merch to manufacture...

   Today, Meta is launching its new microblogging platform called Threads. What is noteworthy about this launch is that Threads intends to become part of the decentralized social web by using the same standard protocol as Mastodon, ActivityPub. There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads...

   While usually our app updates don’t get a dedicated blog post, this one is a bit bigger and provides a good opportunity to reflect on how the Android app changed since launch roughly a year ago. Today, Mastodon for Android has received a complete Material You redesign. We left no stone unturned tab...

   Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are...

   On Dec , Twitter suspended our joinmastodon account after we shared a link to the newly registered Mastodon account of ElonJet, an account that broadcasts public flight path data of Elon Musk’s private jet, which was previously suspended from Twitter itself. At the same time, accounts of...

   I’m pleased to announce that our new joinmastodon.org website is now live. We teamed up with the design agency Oak to give our project a modern and professional presence. The website is responsible for explaining what Mastodon is, why it is better than other social media platforms, what makes it...

   We’re teaming up with the design agency Oak to update our homepage and our brand. We’re leaving the ubiquitous blue that every social app seems to have behind in favour of a vibrant purple. Our logo also gets some subtle shape fixes that makes it look more precise. I originally picked our color...

   The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over , new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any...

   With the release of our Android app on the Play Store we are now present on both major mobile platforms. The apps are gaining overwhelmingly positive reviews, some even going so far as to claim that our onboarding is smoother than any other social media platform’s; our iOS app is rising through the...

   Work on multiple features in this release has been kindly sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the Prototype Fund. We’ve added one of the most requested functions among our competitors, the ability to edit posts. Since older Mastodon versions would not...

   Following the successful launch of our official iOS app, in January we’ve begun the development of an Android version. We continue working with the NYC design agency Lickability and welcome Gregory Klyushnikov, better known as grishka on the fediverse, as the lead Android developer. Gregory is a...

   Disclaimer: Since Mastodon is decentralized, different Mastodon servers have a different view of the network depending on user activity, and providing an objective data summary across the entire network is not currently possible. Data provided in this blog post is provided as seen from mastodon...

   From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform...

   On behalf of the EUNOMIA project, in which I represent Mastodon, I am happy to announce that after nearly years of development there is now a public pilot for the Mastodon community. But first, what is EUNOMIA and who is EUNOMIA EUNOMIA is a digital companion for social media, a set of...

   In June, I was able to officially register Mastodon gGmbH after nearly months of legal work gGmbH means non profit limited liability company . A non profit limited liability company in Germany is structered and operates similarly to a for profit limited liability company with a few key...

   One of the ways Mastodon sets itself apart from current day Twitter is its API first approach every function available through the web interface is available through the API, in fact, our web client is just an API client that runs in the browser . A third party app ecosystem contributed in large...

   It’s Mastodon . time We’ve got security fixes, performance fixes, new moderation tools and quality of life features

   An ever growing problem of the modern social media rich world is misinformation. The trust that was previously placed into government officials and journalism has eroded; the internet gave everyone a voice but with it made it so much more difficult to distinguish truth from fabrication. The...

   The new Mastodon release brings you a much better audio player and improved support for different audio and video formats, as well as some additional security mechanisms. The audio player has been completely reworked to have a more eye catching design. It will extract album art from the uploaded...

   Since Mastodon . , it is actually possible to let users sign up through your app, instead of asking them to go to a Mastodon website directly and then return. Let’s go over how this can be done.

   New REST APIs Profile directory The profile directory is a way to discover users who want to be discovered. To fetch the profile directory, access GET api v directory with the possible params local boolean and order new or active . Pagination is accomplished using offset and limit params....

   It’s finally here Mastodon . is live The team has been hard at work on making sure that this release is one of our most user friendly yet with some exciting new features Here are just a few: Stronger anti harassment tools We’re always looking for new ways to provide users and admins with the...

   After crowdfunding millions of dollars, social media platform Gab abandoned its own code and switched to the freely available Mastodon software in early as a way of circumventing Google’s and Apple’s ban on their own app from their app stores, since offering Mastodon’s client side API would...

   One of the biggest obstacles for new users to Mastodon has been the multi column UI. For users accustomed to the single column layouts of Twitter or Tumblr, Mastodon’s multi column layout can be overwhelming. At Mastodon, we want users’ first day experience with us to be a positive and accessible...

   With the sad news that KNZK was shutting down we thought it might be useful for people to have a refresher on the features that Mastodon has built in that make moving instances easy and painless. Backing up Your Data Data export If you are moving to a new instance the first thing you will want...

   Although Mastodon has no central authority, we as a project still want to provide a safer experience than found on Twitter or Reddit. One of the things that gave impetus to the creation of Mastodon was a lack of moderation on Twitter against hate groups. The no nazis rule of the original mastodon...

   The latest point release of Mastodon adds a small new feature that might have a significant impact on all adult content creators on the platform. The feature has a fancy, memorable name: Blurhash. But first, let’s talk about how adult content works on Mastodon. Mastodon allows you to put content...

   In this long awaited release: Polls, new tools for managing followers, new frontpage design, new admin features, Keybase integration, and more. A poll Mastodon now has a poll feature. Instead of attaching images or video to your post, you can ask your followers to choose an answer to your...