Mastodon vs Moshidon
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Mastodon
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.
Moshidon
Moshidon is a modified version of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer. Key features - Many colors: Brings material you theme and many colorful options for themes! - Filtered posts!: The ability to have filtered posts show with a warning! - Translate button: Brings a translate button! - Toot language picker: Brings in a toot language picker! - Unlisted posting: Post publicly without having your post show up in trends, hashtags or public timelines. - Federated timeline: See all public posts from people on all other Fediverse neighborhoods your home instance is connected to. - Image description viewer: Quickly check whether an image or video has an alt text attached to it. - Pinning posts: Pin your most important posts to your profile and see what others have pinned using the “Pinned“ tab. - Follow hashtags: See new posts from specific hashtags directly in your home timeline by following them. - Answering follow requests: Accept or decline follow requests from your notifications or the dedicated Follow requests list. - Delete and re-draft: The much-loved feature that made editing possible without an actual editing function. - Extras: Brings many extra UI features, such as interaction icons on the Notifications and removing many annoyances with the original UI!
| Feature | Mastodon | Moshidon |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Media PlayerMessagingVideoBrowserSocial | Media PlayerMessagingVideoBrowserSocial |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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