Mastodon
Mastodon | |
Social networking, back in your hands | |
URL | https://joinmastodon.org/ |
Status | Special case |
Archiving status | Special case |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Mastodon is a federated social network which is comparable in functionality to Twitter and part of the Fediverse. Due to the federation, instances are constantly joining the network or disappearing.
As of January 2019, it is not possible to properly migrate an account from one instance to another[1].
Archival
Instances can be archived reasonably well by starting a recursive crawl from the "about" page, which contains a link to the admin profile. This may not cover the entire instance though.
Lists of instances
- instances.social[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] – As of 2019-01-15, this lists 6066 instances, a bit over 4100 of which are marked as down.
- the-federation.info[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] – Not only Mastodon but the entire Fediverse. Opt-in and therefore incomplete. As of 2019-01-28, 4298 nodes (instances) are listed in total, 2748 of them running Mastodon.
- https://github.com/distsn/instances[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] – Automated discovery through each instance's peers. Covers also GNU social, Pleroma, and Misskey.
Dead and dying instances
- 2019-05-07: smusi.ch[2], 548 users, 4776 statuses, Saved!, job:a1ylhltresype3wqgti7j75xq
- 2019-04-28: friends.nico[3], 48k users, 23.6M statuses, In progress..., job:bnep6tuzykw7n2p00d1fzo8os
- 2019-04-22: humanities.one[4][5], 71 users, 800 statuses, Saved!, job:ae3aq93csqv597wdzlatfjvj4
- 2019-04-??: lamp.institute[6] disappeared between 2019-04-08[7] and 2019-04-13[8], 46 users, 84k statuses, Saved!, job:8kqsx32rlhdtclls5g1b37la2
- 2019-04-09: pleasehug.me[9], 192 users, 15k statuses, Saved!, job:2nn2fx0ge4zf7az19gyfj5g10
- 2019-02-28: djs.social[10][11], 174 users, 2.9k statuses, Saved!, job:4v0owecf2yc17orqaavuggpdr
- Still online as of 2019-03-22; shutdown appears to have been averted for the time being[12].
- 2019-01-??: mastodon.rocks seems to have broken entirely sometime between 2019-01-23[13][14] and 2019-02-03[15] with the "about" page returning an error 500 page, and the SSL certificate expired on 2019-03-05[16] and was not renewed as of 2019-03-24[17]; 441 users, 2781 statuses as of 2019-01-15[18], Lost
- 2019-01-19: ilovela.in[19], 34 users, 18k statuses, Saved!, job:cme7xo8rj4oacpkbkll0tffga
- 2018-12-??: apoil.org, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
- 2018-12-??: webdev.network[20], 144 users, 765 statuses, Saved!, job:3w7bgh9a2or69ke15dfyttzib
- 2018-11-01: unixcorn.xyz[21], 1k users and 33k statuses as of May 2018, Lost
- ca. 2018-10-??: bofa.lol, created 2018-08-17 according to WHOIS[22], 630 users and 143k statuses as of 2018-09-05[23], Lost
- after 2018-05-10: spooky.pizza, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
- 2018-04-30: witches.town[24], 2.4k users, 1.3M statuses, Saved!, job:do3wklp5q85gm4pfkhqn76gj
- 2018-03-16: mastodon.rocks crashed and lost all data, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
- after 2018-02-04[25]: social.arbleizez.bzh, Lost
- 2017-10-??: socially.constructed.space, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
- ca. 2017-09-??: fern.surgeplay.com, 163 users and 882 statuses as of June 2017[26], Lost
- ca. 2017-07-??: toot.works, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
- ca. 2017-06-??: pouet.sbaron.fr, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
- after 2017-04-??: wogan.im, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
- ca. 2017-04-??: masto.yellowkeycard.net, number of users and statuses unknown (probably single-user[27]), Lost
- ca. 2017-04-??: mastodon.cx, 1.7k users, 3.9k statuses, Lost
Other archives or attempts
- 2019-01-16: mastodon.mit.edu, 523 users, 73k statuses, Saved!, job:eld9e7mlgqqzn6eez8o6d2cds
- 2019-01-15: comm.network, 17 users, 2.3k statuses, Saved!, job:477cfpmlf91qgzahcu3doz8i7
- 2018-09-05: girlcock.club, 208 users, 17.2k statuses, Saved!, job:e0eyw802j202q2xdtb5y7vluf
- 2018-09-04: catdon.life, 779 users, 44k statuses, Saved!, job:ij3sp1n9f9o8dz8aum7z2nlb
- 2018-09-04: mst3k.interlinked.me, 191 users, 207k statuses, Saved!, job:1wrz1h6fddtug7aboj3lm6u7e
- 2018-07-04: comm.network, Not saved yet, job:4syxicv0vopadoq2qoo5uu296 failed
- 2018-04-16: tenforward.social, 338 users, 12.8k statuses, Saved!, job:4n4gyhnp9i31dxtpyi8hbedhk
Outdated instances
Instances that are running old versions of Mastodon are likely to not be properly maintained anymore and may be at risk of disappearing. They are tracked at:
Instance homepage grabs
User:JustAnotherArchivist is regularly running !ao
jobs for all known instances' homepages (= "about" pages for current versions of Mastodon) through ArchiveBot based on the instances.social list:
- 2019-01-15: job:47hdn6nhv6ed9fvd7mzjuweqr
- 2019-02-03: job:132ttwrv8yg8mxk5hr0d8w73u
- 2019-03-08: job:btkyf4lv1ldln7ztfqaypb1r1
- 2019-03-24: job:4cs2unovzjjkyv0kdcuwnqsns
- 2019-04-13: job:377h9t2x30x8q9r8qbcbitiu4
References
- ↑ https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://smusi.ch/@smusi/101844877814629349[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://friends.nico/@friends_nico/101827010188335801[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://humanities.one/@lrhodes/101818106595113336[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://humanities.one/@lrhodes/101870169333337017[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://lamp.institute/@amy/101860606687776398[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190408175646/https://lamp.institute/about
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190413174519/http://lamp.institute/
- ↑ https://pleasehug.me/@Kirschn/101891650141822033[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://djs.social/@damien/101381657119712906[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://djs.social/@tipsandtricks/101387593257993357[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://djs.social/@damien/101549632451437412[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://mastodon.rocks/@Glenn[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://mastodon.rocks/@UBports/with_replies?max_id=101419312194725348[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ job:132ttwrv8yg8mxk5hr0d8w73u
- ↑ https://crt.sh/?id=1003316809[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://crt.sh/?q=mastodon.rocks[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190115160206/https://mastodon.rocks/about
- ↑ https://ilovela.in/@tA/101404667036176695[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://webdev.network/@akmur/101259121075585625[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://unixcorn.xyz/@unixcorn/100661126190416872[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://www.whois.com/whois/bofa.lol[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180905070653/https://bofa.lol/about
- ↑ https://witches.town/@TheSupreme/99790692010452099[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://framapiaf.org/@franckridel/99466298851989160[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170615132342/https://fern.surgeplay.com/about/more
- ↑ https://mastodon.social/@bkeej[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]