🆚 Mastodon CMS vs. Refinery
- 📈 Mastodon CMS is much more popular than Refinery.
- 🌎 Mastodon CMS is more popular in Germany, the United States, and France.
- 🌍 Refinery is more popular in South Africa and Slovenia.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Mastodon CMS
RefineryType
Content management system
Content management system
About
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, and 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.
Refinery CMS is a content management system based on 
Ruby on Rails.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Mastodon CMS platform is 9 times more popular than Refinery.
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, the United States, and France, while Refinery is more popular in South Africa and Slovenia.
Germany
United States
France
Portugal
Japan
Finland
United Kingdom
Canada
South Africa
Netherlands
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Mastodon CMS is more popular than Refinery in all market segments.
Social Networking
Business
Content Server
Potentially Unwanted Programs
Internet Services
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Religion/Ideology
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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.