🆚 Bluesky vs. Mastodon
- 📈 Bluesky is twice as popular as Mastodon.
- 🌎 Bluesky is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Mastodon is more popular in Italy, Vietnam, and India.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
BlueskyType
Social media platform
Social media platform
About
Bluesky is a social network designed to operate without control by a single company, built as a reference implementation of the AT Protocol for distributed social networks.
It supports rich text and media posts, follows and timelines, custom feeds with different feed algorithms, and decentralized account hosting across independent servers.
Mastodon is a decentralized social network running on independent servers and powered by 
Mastodon open-source software.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Berlin, Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Social Media › Rank #15
Social Media › Rank #25
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Bluesky social media platform is 2.1 times more popular than Mastodon.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Bluesky is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Mastodon is more popular in Italy, Vietnam, and India.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Canada
Spain
Switzerland
Japan
Australia
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Canada in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Switzerland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Sweden in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Belgium in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Ireland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in France in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Bluesky is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, blogs and wiki, and business, while Mastodon is more commonly used on software and hardware, and technical, business forums sites.
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
General News
Internet Services
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Nostr🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.