Mastodon

Category - Message Boards

Mastodon is a free and open-source self-hosted social networking service for micro blogging.


We have discovered  2,652 live websites   that are using Mastodon.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using Mastodon2,652 websites
Most popular in the country United States
Market position in Message Boards#14
Market share in Message Boards1.42%
Most popular version4.2.14

Security vulnerabilites


PublishedCVETitleDomains
Nov, 2024CVE-2023-49952Mastodon 4.1.x before 4.1.17 and 4.2.x before 4.2.9 allows a bypass of rate limiting via a crafted H...96
Oct, 2024CVE-2024-34535In Mastodon 4.1.6, API endpoint rate limiting can be bypassed by setting a crafted HTTP request head...95
Jul, 2024CVE-2024-37903Mastodon has improper authorship check on audience extension for existing posts163
Feb, 2024CVE-2024-25623Lack of media type verification of Activity Streams objects allows impersonation of remote accounts111
Feb, 2024CVE-2024-25618External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by E-Mail Change in mastodon109
Feb, 2024CVE-2024-25619Destroying OAuth Applications doesn't notify Streaming of Access Tokens being destroyed in mastodon99
Feb, 2024CVE-2024-23832Mastodon Remote user impersonation and takeover102
Sep, 2023CVE-2023-42451Mastodon Invalid Domain Name Normalization vulnerability87
Sep, 2023CVE-2023-42452Mastodon vulnerable to Stored XSS through the translation feature58
Jul, 2023CVE-2023-36459Mastodon vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting through oEmbed preview cards57
Jul, 2023CVE-2023-36460Mastodon vulnerable to arbitrary file creation through media attachments45
Jul, 2023CVE-2023-36461Mastodon vulnerable to Denial of Service through slow HTTP responses57
Jul, 2023CVE-2023-36462Mastodon's verified profile links can be formatted in a misleading way57
Apr, 2023CVE-2023-28853Mastodon's blind LDAP injection in login allows the attacker to leak arbitrary attributes from LDAP database52
Mar, 2023CVE-2022-48364The undo_mark_statuses_as_sensitive method in app/services/approve_appeal_service.rb in Mastodon 3.5...16
Dec, 2022CVE-2022-46405Mastodon through 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large Sidekiq pull queue) by c...59
Nov, 2022CVE-2022-2166Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in mastodon/mastodon38
May, 2022CVE-2022-31263app/models/user.rb in Mastodon before 3.5.0 allows a bypass of e-mail restrictions.12
Feb, 2022CVE-2022-0432Prototype Pollution in mastodon/mastodon12

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Mastodon usage.
Websites that added Mastodon 98
Websites that dropped Mastodon 67
Websites that changed version of Mastodon  3,883

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Technology Information


Major Versions

  • 4.xx (41 subversions, 1,432 domains)
  • 3.xx (12 subversions, 38 domains)

Mastodon usage by Country

United States1,399 websites


France494 websites
Germany309 websites
Japan173 websites
Singapore75 websites
Canada23 websites
Netherlands23 websites
GB20 websites
Austria14 websites

Mastodon usage by TLD

.net1,090 websites
.com211 websites
.social187 websites
.org105 websites
.de51 websites
.club40 websites
.space39 websites
.me37 websites
.jp37 websites
.fr35 websites

Mastodon Versions

sorted by popularity
4.2.14969 websites
4.2.10151 websites
4.2.1283 websites
4.2.1346 websites
4.1.1822 websites
4.0.217 websites
4.2.815 websites
4.1.412 websites
4.2.710 websites
4.2.159 websites

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Websites utilizing Mastodon

Top websites that use Mastodon
DomainCountryRankContacts
tribe.net United States993
fosstodon.org United States28,761
tilde.zone Germany34,616
chaos.social Germany50,985
mastodon.peterjanes.ca Canada63,385
mstdn.jp United States81,418
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Alternative Technologies


bbPress: Total 40,002 domains found using bbPress
phpBB: Total 35,399 domains found using phpBB
BuddyPress: Total 22,223 domains found using BuddyPress
Discuz! X: Total 14,743 domains found using Discuz! X
XenForo: Total 10,296 domains found using XenForo
Altervista: Total 9,739 domains found using Altervista
vBulletin: Total 7,928 domains found using vBulletin
SMF: Total 7,086 domains found using SMF
IPB: Total 7,015 domains found using IPB
Discourse: Total 6,993 domains found using Discourse

FAQ

Mastodon is Message Boards.
WebTechSurvey continually and systematically explores the internet, indexing technologies employed by websites, including Mastodon. Our clients can obtain listings of websites utilizing Mastodon through WebTechSurvey's platform.
There are 2,652 live websites that currently use Mastodon.
Mastodon has 1.42% market share in Message Boards.
The primary competing technologies to Mastodon are bbPress, phpBB, BuddyPress, and Discuz! X.
Mastodon contains multiple known security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-49952, CVE-2024-34535, CVE-2024-37903, and CVE-2024-25623.