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🐘 Mastodon instances overview
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This list may be useful for new users who wish to choose a server by theme.
🎉 Notable mention
// some are open only to particular audience, i.e., to students of university
- mastodon.mit.edu - for the MIT community
- mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu - for Berkeley students, faculty, and staff
- mastodon.acc.sunet.se - by Academic Computer Club at Umeå University, Sweden
- mastodon.iut-larochelle.fr - by University of La Rochelle
- mastodon.iut-larochelle.fr - by Redbrick, Dublin City University
- w3c.social - for people involved in the activities of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- mastodon.greenpeace.ch - by Greenpece Switzerland
🐚 Run by tech-savvy organizations
- en.osm.town - for the OpenStreetMap Community
- fr.osm.social - for francophone OpenStreetMap Community
- chaos.social - CCC related
- framapiaf.org - by Framasoft
- mastodon.dotopia.dk - by DO:TOPIA, Denmark based tech activism collective
- mastodon.hackerlab.fr - by Hackerlab
- mi.pede.rs - by Hacklab-in-Mama hackerspace, Zagreb
- social.weho.st - by WeHost, non-profit internet service provider, Amsterdam
- m.g3l.org - by G3L, libre software association
- mastodon.nzoss.nz - by New Zealand Open Source Society
- mamot.fr - by Quadrature du Net, association for the defence of digital rights and freedoms
- mastodon.roflcopter.fr - by Roflcopter, CHATONS member
- mastodon.zaclys.com - by Zaclys, association francophone
- social.buffalomesh.net - by Buffalomesh, mesh network in Buffalo, NY
- eunivers.social - by Eunivers online edition
- libretooth.gr - by LibreOps, who contribute to (re-)decentralizing the net
🐧 For techies
- infosec.exchange - infosec and IT security discussions
- mastodon.technology - for people interested in technology
- fosstodon.org - dedicated to Free and Open Source Software
- floss.social - for people who support or build Free Libre Open Source Software
- miaou.drycat.fr - for geeks, FOSS and cat lovers, CHATONS member
- mastodon.partecipa.digital - conversations about IT, Open Source, Linux
- pao.moe - cat, FOSS, nix
- linuxrocks.online - dedicated to Linux and technologies
- oldbytes.space - for old hardware fans
- mathstodon.xyz - for Maths people
- calc.news - for the graphic calculator community, open to programmers and artists
- digipres.club - conversations about digital preservation
💻 Programming
- ruby.social - for people interested in Ruby, Rails and related topics
- phpc.social - PHP community
- functional.cafe - for people interested in functional programming and languages
- social.csswg.org - for anyone interested in CSS or general web development
🎮 Gamedev
- mastodon.gamedev.place - gamedev and related professions
- elekk.xyz - by gamers, for gamers
- gamemaking.social - amateur videogame making: game writers, game players welcome
- mastodon.sergal.org - general trends toward tech, games, and everything fluffy
- social.noff.co - for tech, gaming, and good times
- unityjp-mastodon.tokyo - Unity Japan
- gameliberty.club - mainly gaming / nerd instance
- pcgamer.social - by PC gamer, for PC gamers
🎬 Game / Book / Show theme
- tenforward.social - theme Star Trek
- irakiratter.com - for Aikatsu fans
- donphan.social - for Pokémon enthusiasts
- cmdr.social - dedicated to Elite: Dangerous
🎨 Humanities
- humanities.one
- mastodon.art - for artists
- muses.gallery - community of compassionate artists, musicians, and other creatives
- artalley.porn - for artists and commissioners
- baraag.net - freely share all types of art, uncensored, 18+
- bookwor.ms - for book-lovers
- wandering.shop - science fiction and fantasy community
- imaginair.es - for writers, photographers, painters, cartoonists and people with imagination
- social.nasqueron.org - for creative people, writers, developers and thinkers
- vis.social - for anyone into data, visualization, creative coding, related arts and research
- photographer.pro - for working professional photographers to share gigs
- photog.social - place for your photos
- music.glitch.pizza- dedicated to talking about and sharing music
- linernotes.club - for fans of recorded music
- ausglam.space - for Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records people
- oulipo.social - a lipogrammatic server
- expshift.com - for creatives (place to share your art, music, movie reviews)
- www.bookbeezhive.com - for authors and their readers
💡 Sciences
- scholar.social - for researchers, undergrads, journal editors, librarians, administrators
- scicomm.xyz - discussions for scientists and science enthusiasts
- qoto.org - for scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
🎓 Education
- tusk.schoollibraries.net - helping educators improve the School Libraries Resource Network
- openbiblio.social - German libraries and information facilities
💼 Law
- legal.social - instance for legal debate
🙏 Religion
- rcsocial.net - for Catholics and those interested in Catholicism
- ganesha.masto.host - Dharma community (Buddhism, Yoga, Advaita, Hinduism, Tantra, Tao)
🎵 Music
- smusi.ch - for musicians, by musicians
- metalhead.club - for metal friends
- djs.social - by DJs for DJs
- koreadon.com - for K-POP music fans
🔭 Hobbies
- cruisers.social - for sailors, cruisers, boat owners, and anyone exploring the world's coastlines
- makestuff.club - for people that make stuff
- scramble.city - Transformers, super robots, mecha and related subjects
- mhz.social - for radio amateurs, DXers and anyone interested to geek out about radio
- afu.social - for radio amateurs in German-speaking (and other) countries
- mastodon.radio - for Amateur (Ham) Radio community
- dice.camp - for tabletop gamers
- mastodon.beerfactory.org - for beermakers
- motogp.space - for MotoGP and motorbikes fans
- cartodon.com - to discuss anything related to cars, racing, and car care
- ocr.social - for the global Obstacle Course Running (OCR) community
- occult.camp - focused on spitituality, witchcraft and various shades of woo
- witchcraft.cafe - for witches
- witches.live - for witches
- travel-friends.chat - for people who like to travel
- worldtravel.photos - social space for travel
- mmorpg.social - for those who love MMOs
- walkers.social - for those who like walking, trekking, hiking, camping, climbing, and other outdoor adventuring
- kith.kitchen - centered around food, cooking
- about-bitcoin.com - anything related to bitcoin and other crypto-currencies
🎏 Language specific
- polyglot.city - for polyglots, multilinguals, interested in languages and translating
- esperanto.masto.host - for those interested in Esperanto
- tooot.im - main instance language is Hebrew
- persadon.com - for Persian speaking folks
- toot.si - Slovenian (multilingual) instance
- mastodontti.fi - Finnish (public toots should be in Finnish)
- fikaverse.club - Swedish and other Scandinavian languages
- mstdn.su - for Russian speaking users
- mastodon.sk - for Slovak users
⛺ Regional
- mstdn.hu - Hungary
- frei.social - Munich, Germany
- muenchen.social - Munich, Germany
- mastodon.bayern - Bavaria, Germany
- mastodon.hamburg - Hamburg, Germany
- toot.koeln - Koeln, Germany (generalistic)
- ruhr.social - Ruhr area, Germany
- social.saarland - Saarland, Germany
- dresden.network - Dresden, Germany
- machteburch.social - Magdeburg, Germany
- mastodon.se - Sweden
- mastodont.cat - Catalonia
- mastodon.uy - Uruguay
- mastodon.scot - Scotland, or who identify as Scottish
- toot.wales - home of Wales and the Welsh
- mastodon.me.uk - UK tech community
- kokomo.space - community of Kokomo city, Indiana, USA
- rva.party - Richmond, USA
- txsocial.club - Texas, USA
- polska.masto.host - Poland
- mastodon.mg - Madagascar
- balkan.fedive.rs - the Balkans (generalistic)
- mstdn.quebec.gq - Quebec, Canada
- mastodon.uno - Italy
- kazvam.com - Bulgaria
- mastodonsocial.ru - Russia
- mastodos.com - Kyoto, Japan
- kopiti.am - Singapore
- mastodon.opencloud.lu - for Luxembourgish / European private and public organisations
🔴 Political and social views
- todon.nl - for leftists, socialists, anarchists, Marxists, social democrats, social liberals
- hispagatos.space- for hackers, social anarchists, and anarchist hackers
- anarchism.space - for social anarchists
- sunbeam.city - libertarian Socialist and solarpunk community
- activism.openworlds.info - for activists
- campaign.openworlds.info - for campaigners and NGOs
🐰 Ecology and animals
- mastodon.latransition.org - francophone movement for ecological transition
- onerescue.org - for animal lovers, and dedicated to helping rescue animals in need
- donteatanimals.org - discussion of animal rights and veganism
- toot.cat - instance for cats, the people who love them, and kindness in general
- waterfowl.social - for waterfowl lovers who keep ducks, geese, and other waterfowl as pets
- ecosteader.com - for builders, designers, and innovators of green / eco-friendly habitats
🌈 Safe spaces
- queer.party - for queer folk and non-queer folk alike
- queer.town - space for queer people to be positive and have fun
- social.wxcafe.net - for social justice activists, LGBTQIA+ people
- tech.lgbt - for tech workers, academics, students, and others in tech who are LGBTQA+ allies
- biscuit.town - feminist movement and queer/lgbt+
- eldritch.cafe - for queer, feminist and anarchist people
- deadinsi.de - anti-fascist, LGBT friendly
- colorid.es- LGBTQIA+ / queer instance primarily for Portuguese speakers
- pipou.academy - emphasis on kindness
- notbird.site
👽 Fandoms
- fandom.ink - for fans and fandoms of all types
- monsterpit.net - for monsters, strange creatures, and those who love them
- canislupus.im
- vulpine.club - community for foxes, friends, and other furry (and non-furry) creatures
🐾 Subcultures
- bark.house - open community of furries based in the UK
- this.mouse.rocks - furry instance for all the mouse adjacent folks who rock
🌏 Notable generalistic
// small-to-medium sized instances that will be happy to have new users
- libertalia.world - named after a legendary colony forged by pirates
- nerdculture.de
- mastodon.earth
- weirder.earth - for thoughtful weirdos
- projectx.fun - will be open for up to 100 users, for sanity and sustainability
- nulled.red - refuses to block or silence any instances
- ieji.de - no logs, has Tor .onion address
- assortedflotsam.com - instance committed to truth in discourse
- mstdn.fr - by sysadmins, with a goal to provide robust experience for tens of thousands of users
- scifi.fyi - runs glitch-soc, a version of Mastodon with experimental new features
- mstdn.gnous.eu - instance francophone
- social.tchncs.de - one of the oldest instances
😸 For people with a sense of self-irony
- bibeogaem.zone - for silly people who like funny swearing
- ephemeral.glitch.social - toots are ephemeral and disappear after a while
- dolphin.town - instance where you can only say the letter 'e'
- botsin.space - for bots
Disclaimer
Following instances skipped: closed registration at the moment of checking, running old code, theme / description not understood due to language barrier or scarce description, long blocklists, experimental servers.
Add your own themed Mastodon instance by opening an issue or via MR. If your server already has many users, it will be nice of you to let other instances grow, for a healthier decentralization.
❌ Closed registration / Invite only
- naos.crypto.church - powers of cryptography and cryptanalysis
- bsd.network - for *BSD users and devs
- mastodon.cc - for art
- writing.exchange - community for poets, writers, bloggers
- mastd.racing - dedicated to motosports
- masto.pt - for people speaking Portuguese
- the.wired.sehol.se - for Hungarian speakers
- ceilidh.space - Scottish Gaelic (?)
- bonn.social - Bonn, Germany
- toot.berlin - Berlin, Germany
- ps.s10y.eu - like-minded people in Brussels, Belgium
- babelut.be - Belgium
- occitanie.social - Occitania
- bne.social - Queensland, Australia
- masto.donte.com.br - Brazil
- mspsocial.net - Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- insoumis.social - for comrades, combatants, fighters
- anticapitalist.party
- lgbt.io - for LGBT+ and allies
- sleeping.town - for people who like to sleep
- ociety.oftrolls.com - mild trolling encouraged, but not required
- dragon.style - for dragons, and people who like dragons
- equestria.social - for pony fans
- blimps.xyz - for inflatable lovers and critters