🆚 Elgg vs. Mastodon CMS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Elgg is an open-source social networking engine for building social applications with PHP and MySQL.

Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the ActivityPub protocol.

It allows users to host independent “instances” that communicate across the global “Fediverse,” supports up to 500-character posts (toots), images, video, audio, polls, local and federated timelines, chronological feeds with no ads or algorithms, and community-based moderation.

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #223
CMS › Rank #59

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Mastodon CMS is 17 times more popular than Elgg.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Mastodon CMS is more popular in Germany, France, and the United States, while Elgg is more popular in India.
Germany
France
United States
Portugal
United Kingdom
Japan
Netherlands
Finland
Canada
Austria

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Mastodon CMS is more popular among sites focused on social networking, business, and content server, while Elgg is more commonly used on education and reference sites.
Social Networking
Business
Content Server
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Humor/Comics
Pornography
Art/Culture/Heritage
Dating/Personals

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#199,507
#237,025
#314,316
#424,369
#449,788
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Name
Rank
#35,763
#148,953
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See also

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