🆚 Facebook vs. Mastodon
- 📈 Facebook is much more popular than Mastodon.
- 🌍 Facebook is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
FacebookType
Social media platform
Social media platform
About
Facebook is a social media platform owned by Meta.
It enables users to create profiles, post text, photos, and videos, join groups, follow pages, and interact through reactions and comments. With about 3 billion monthly active users, Facebook is currently the most popular social media platform in the world.
Mastodon is a decentralized social network running on independent servers and powered by 
Mastodon open-source software.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Berlin, Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Social Media › Rank #1
Social Media › Rank #25
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook social media platform is 202 times more popular than Mastodon.
Total websites
Market share
Social Media
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook is more popular than Mastodon in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Japan
Spain
Australia
India
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy 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.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Ireland in the Social Media category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany 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.
Facebook is more popular than Mastodon in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta company profile🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.