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. Due to the federation, instances are constantly joining the network or disappearing.

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 full list as JSON is available here^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}.

Major dead and dying instances

• 2019-02-28: djs.social, 174 users, 2.9k statuses, Saved!, job:4v0owecf2yc17orqaavuggpdr
• 2019-01-19: ilovela.in, 34 users, 18k statuses, In progress..., job:cme7xo8rj4oacpkbkll0tffga
• 2018-12-xx: webdev.network, 144 users, 765 statuses, Saved!, job:3w7bgh9a2or69ke15dfyttzib
• 2018-03-16: mastodon.rocks crashed and lost all data, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost

Other archives or attempts

• 2018-09-04: catdon.life, 779 users, 44k statuses, Saved!, job:ij3sp1n9f9o8dz8aum7z2nlb
• 2018-07-04: comm.network, Not saved yet, job:4syxicv0vopadoq2qoo5uu296 failed
• 2018-04-16: tenforward.social, 338 users, 12.8k statuses, Saved!, job:4n4gyhnp9i31dxtpyi8hbedhk

Links

• Official website^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}