Mastodon is growing by the day, and there seems to be many people that are seeking help in some form or another. So I thought it may be of help to list what I’ve come across in my travels reading about Mastodon.
If I’m missing a good resource, or you think I should remove a link, then please consider contacting me.
How To Use Mastodon
- 10 Quick Mastodon Tips by Per Axbom
- A Look Inside Mastodon by James Gayfer
- Add Mastodon Link Verification for Gitea by Adam Douglas
- Complete guide to Mastodon for beginners by eGPlearning
- Confusion In The Land of Mastodon Features by Adam Douglas
- Getting Started with Mastodon by Kev Quirk
- Guide To Mastodon by Noëlle Anthony
- How Does Mastodon Work? by Kev Quirk
- How to write an image description by Alex Chen
- Mastodon documentation
- Mastodon Guide
- Mastodon Profile Setup by Adam Douglas
- Mastodon Wiki by Daniel Schuman
- Mastodon.help
- Moving a Mastodon account to another server by Fabrizio Musacchio
Find an Instance
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Curated list of instances by categories.
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Official instance directory that can be filtered by region, and topic.
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Search for an instance by using a wizard or a list.
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To The Fediverse by Ayush Sharma
Search or browse by category, software, language or by domain.
Find People
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Curated lists of academics on Mastodon.
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Find people you follow-on Twitter for possible Mastodon accounts.
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Followgraph for Mastodon GitHub
Find new people to follow by looking up your follows’ follows.
Tools
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Connect your website to Mastodon, and the fediverse directly or cross posting.
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List of custom emojis by instance.
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Automatically parses RSS feeds, identifies new posts, and posts them on Mastodon.
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Backup your statuses, favorites, and media using Mastodon API (application programming interface).
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Embedded Mastodon feeds for blogs, websites, etc.
- Mastodon scheduler
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Link your Mastodon account to Twitter.
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Find journalists on Mastodon.
- Search Mastodon tools
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Mirror your favorite Twitter accounts in the Fediverse, so you can follow on the desired instance or migrate to the Fediverse using a Twitter archive.
Statistics
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Fediverse stats database for instances (servers) on user count, status count, software version, etc.
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Another database for viewing stats of user count, up and down times, network traffic speed, etc. Additionally, a visual map to list each instance, and also helps to find an instance close to you.
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Fediverse stats database for instances (servers) with graphs, user count, status count, software version, etc.
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A bot that counts, and posts every hour the total users on all known instances.
Other
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Curated list of awesome Mastodon-related stuff.
- Mastodon apps
- Mastodon Brand Toolkit
- Mastodon Fediverse.party
- Mastodon icon - Font Awesome
- Mastodon logos - SVG Repo
- Mastodon logos - Wikimedia Commons
- Mastodon mascot - Wikimedia Commons
This is post 68 of 100, and is round 2 of the 100 Days To Offload challenge.
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