Mastodon

Where conversations happen

Mastodon - Conversations Without Algorithms

"Mastodon" is an official Android app that provides a decentralized social media experience, allowing users to follow conversations across the fediverse in real time without algorithms or ads. With features like chronological feeds, customizable filters, and seamless communication with users on different servers, it empowers users to create, read, and curate content effortlessly. Designed for both casual and advanced users, Mastodon prioritizes user control and privacy in a non-profit environment.
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By: Mastodon
Version: 2.9.3 (Last updated: 2024-11-21)
Creation date: 2022-04-13
Permissions
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • full network access
  • control vibration

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App summary

Mastodon is the best way to keep up with what’s happening. Follow anyone across the fediverse and see it all in chronological order. No algorithms, ads, or clickbait in sight.

This is the official Android app for Mastodon. It is blazing fast and stunningly beautiful, designed to be not just powerful but also easy to use. In our app, you can:

EXPLORE

■ Discover new writers, journalists, artists, photographers, scientists and more
■ See what’s happening in the world

READ

■ Keep up with people you care about in a chronological feed with no interruptions
■ Follow hashtags to keep up with specific topics in real time

CREATE

■ Post to your followers or the whole world, with polls, high quality images and videos
■ Participate in interesting conversations with other people

CURATE

■ Create lists of people to never miss a post
■ Filter words or phrases to control what you do and don’t want to see

AND MORE!

■ A beautiful theme that adapts to your personalized color scheme, light or dark
■ Share and scan QR codes to quickly exchange Mastodon profiles with others
■ Login and switch between multiple accounts
■ Get notified when a specific person posts with the bell button
■ No spoilers! You can put your posts behind content warnings

A POWERFUL PUBLISHING PLATFORM

You no longer have to try and appease an opaque algorithm that decides if your friends are going to see what you posted. If they follow you, they’ll see it.

If you publish it to the open web, it’s accessible on the open web. You can safely share links to Mastodon in the knowledge that anyone will be able to read them without logging in.

Between threads, polls, high quality images, videos, audio, and content warnings, Mastodon offers plenty of ways to express yourself in a way that suits you.

A POWERFUL READING PLATFORM

We don’t need to show you ads, so we don’t need to keep you in our app. Mastodon has the richest selection of 3rd party apps and integrations so you can choose the experience that fits you best.

Thanks to the chronological home feed, it’s easy to tell when you’ve caught up on all updates and can move on to something else.

No need to worry that a misclick will ruin your recommendations forever. We don’t guess what you want to see, we let you control it.

PROTOCOLS, NOT PLATFORMS

Mastodon is not like a traditional social media platform, but is built on a decentralized protocol. You can sign up on our official server, or choose a 3rd party to host your data and moderate your experience.

Thanks to the common protocol, no matter what you choose, you can communicate seamlessly with people on other Mastodon servers. But there’s more: With just one account, you can communicate with people from other fediverse platforms.

Not happy with your choice? You can always switch to a different Mastodon server while taking your followers with you. For advanced users, you can even host your data on your own infrastructure, since Mastodon is open-source.

NON-PROFIT IN NATURE

Mastodon is a registered non-profit in the US and Germany. We are not motivated by extracting monetary value from the platform, but by what’s best for the platform.

AS FEATURED IN: TIME, Forbes, Wired, The Guardian, CNN, The Verge, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Gizmodo, PCMAG.com, and more.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Great layout and easy navigation compared to previous versions.
  • Functionalities similar to Twitter, with potential for more customization and features.
  • No advertising, creating a more user-friendly experience.
  • Responsive developers who address reported bugs.
  • Ability to connect with various communities across different servers.
Cons
  • Confusing signup process and email verification issues.
  • Lack of direct messaging feature.
  • Limited options for managing followers and following accounts.
  • UI/UX difficulties, especially when navigating between instances.
  • Several bugs affecting functionality, such as polling errors.
Most mentioned
  • Difficulties with the signup and email confirmation process.
  • Absence of a dedicated user interface for direct messages.
  • User interface is considered unintuitive compared to other apps.
User reviews
Great platform 1 suggestion, when I open following, it would be nice to alphabetize them so in case I accidentally follow a booster bot, I can find them and unfollow. Or some other method. When I click the boosted post, I see no link to the booster to do so, and as followed seem to be in the order they were selected, it's hard to undo an old mistake.
by Brian Rakita, 2023-08-05

Previous version of the app was pretty awful to use, with confusing blank-slate UX and several key missing features (most notably, no dedicated UI for DMs), but I put up with it. However, the recent Material redesign is a very welcome change! The interface now feels much more at home on Android in virtually all respects. It's leagues better than before. Sadly, there's still no UI for user DMs. I also rarely (if ever) receive system notifications from this app on my S22+ for some reason.
by Eyal Kalderon, 2023-07-18

This is a great app for me since Twitter decided to have tweet view limits. It's super easy to navigate and the app layout looks great! The one issue I have with it is not having the option to pin a post or reply to your profile. I think it will be great if that feature gets added. A lot of my friends have gotten this ever since the problem with Twitter.
by Meya Dionisio, 2023-07-02
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