🆚 Bluesky vs. Mastodon
- 📈 Bluesky is three times more popular than Mastodon.
- 🌎 Bluesky is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Mastodon is more popular in Vietnam, India, and Indonesia.
BlueskyType
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.
It provides chronological feeds, community-based moderation, polls, media sharing, quote posts, and interoperability with other Fediverse platforms such as 
PeerTube, 
Lemmy, 
Pixelfed, and 
Threads through 
ActivityPub federation.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Canada in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the Netherlands 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.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in France in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the Netherlands in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.