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Mastodon on new websites

Name: Mastodon adoption on new websites
Creator: StackScope

Decentralized open-source social network (ActivityPub/fediverse)

#37 of 256 in Social In our data since Apr 2026 Last seen: Oct 16, 2026 Most recent launch: Rally News, Oct 16, 2026 Website: mastodon.social

337 sites

268 found by StackScope, 69 via launch platforms

StackScope Wider Web 233
StackScope Discovery (Indie) 35
Product Hunt 43
Hacker News 13
Other 7
PeerPush 6

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Mastodon appeared on about 82 new sites in the last 30 days.

These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.

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Share of new sites using Mastodon

Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.

0.0%

last 7 days

+0.0pp vs prior week

0.0%

30 days to Oct 15

-0.0pp vs 30 days before

337

sites all time

since Apr 2026

Mar 30, 2026 90 days Oct 15, 2026

The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Mastodon itself changing.

Coverage details

Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.

Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.

Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.

The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.

How StackScope detects technologies

What kind of sites use Mastodon

107 sites with a known type, all time

Developer Tools

26.2%

Productivity

18.7%

Content

11.2%

Health

10.3%

Social

6.5%

Games

5.6%

Education

3.7%

Finance

3.7%

Marketing

3.7%

Crypto

2.8%

1.9%

Design

1.9%

Domain endings using Mastodon

337 sites, all time

.com 38.3%
.blog 6.8%
.app 5.6%
.site 5.6%
.dev 4.8%
.org 4.2%
.io 3.9%
.me 3.9%
.xyz 3.3%
.de 3.0%
.fr 1.8%
.us 1.8%
.ch 1.5%
.space 1.5%

Country

Country likely for 67 of 337 sites (19.9%), all time.

How we know

Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.

Germany 17.9%
United States 17.9%
France 9.0%
South Korea 9.0%
Switzerland 7.5%
United Kingdom 7.5%
Australia 6.0%
Canada 4.5%
Estonia 3.0%
India 3.0%
Austria 1.5%
Spain 1.5%
Greece 1.5%
Croatia 1.5%

Green hosting

68 checked sites since Apr 2026.

What this means

The share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, against the average for every new site we checked.

Mastodon 59%
Average 47%

Social leaders

		Tool	% of sitesall time	% of categoryall time
#1	–	Gravatar	0.7%	29.3%
#2	–	Facebook	0.6%	24.0%
#3	–	Instagram	0.2%	9.0%
#4	–	Facebook SDK	0.2%	8.2%
#5	▲3	Telegram	0.2%	7.1%
…
#37	▼1	Mastodon Current page	<0.1%	0.2%

Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Social tool. All 256 in Social →

Often used with

Tool	Sites	vs all new sites
WordPress	113	2.7x
nginx	77	2.4x
PHP	120	2.1x
Google Search Console	136	2.1x
Google Analytics	73	2.1x

Tools that turn up far more often on Mastodon sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recent launches using Mastodon

104 of the 337 sites using Mastodon are product launches we list individually. The other 233 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts. How StackScope Discovery works