Mastodon
Mastodon is a free and open-source software platform for decentralized social networking.
Owner
Mastodon gGmbH
Type
backend, social media, web
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Last evaluated
28.07.2026
Origin country
Germany
contact
hello@joinmastodon.orgRelease date
-
DPG since
20.05.2025
Core Components Assessed/Included Repositories
The following repositories were submitted by the solution and included in our evaluation. Any repositories, add-ons, features not included in here were not reviewed by us.
Feature
Scale of the Solution*
Connected members
N/A
Participated Programs
N/A
Available Languages
Italian, Basque, Asturian, Scottish Gaelic, Estonian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Uyghur, Turkish, Breton, Telugu, Esperanto, Welsh, Bosnian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Croatian, Czech, Ukrainian, Tamil, Hebrew, Interlingua, Tatar, Japanese, Sanskrit, Malay, Slovenian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Burmese, Marathi, Hindi, Portuguese, Sinhala, Greek, Azerbaijani, Urdu (Pakistan), Swedish, French, Georgian, Indonesian, Serbian (Latin), Faroese, Standard Moroccan Tamazight, Irish, Persian, Korean, Norwegian, Finnish, Cornish, Arabic, Slovak, Belarusian, Polish, German, Punjabi, Spanish, Hungarian, Danish, Romanian, Thai, Kazakh, Kabyle, Icelandic, Galician, Malayalam, Macedonian, Nepali, Sardinian, Igbo, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Kannada, English, Catalan, Uzbek, Filipino, Toki Pona, Occitan, Mexico, Taigi, Sorani (Kurdish), Brazilian, United Kingdom, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Quebec, Taiwanese (Hokkien), Ido, Aragonese, Chinese Simplified, Klingon, Scots, Kurmanji (Kurdish), Latin, Frisian, Hong Kong, Chinese Traditional, Argentina Dutch, Corsican, Interlingue, Bengali, Rusyn, Silesian
Organisations using it
Political / government: EUC, social.bund.de, Land Schleswig-Holstein Media: ARD/ZDF Germany Education: University of Gronigen, University of Innsbruck
* This information is self-reported and updated annually
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Application Details
DPG ID
GID0092176
Status
DPG
Date Created
2026-03-21
Date Submitted
2026-05-21
Date Reviewed
2026-07-28
Date of Expiry
2027-07-28
Application Log Details
Timestamp
Activity
2026-07-28 04:07:59
Ricardo Torres (L2 Reviewer) submitted their review of Mastodon (152) and found it to be a DPG
2026-07-28 04:07:58
System moved Mastodon (13973) to expired because parent application is now DPG.
2026-07-28 04:07:58
System unmarked Mastodon (13973) as a nominee
2026-07-28 04:07:53
Ricardo Torres (L2 Reviewer) passed Scale of Solution for Mastodon (13973)
2026-07-28 04:07:46
Ricardo Torres (L2 Reviewer) passed 9C. Protection from Harassment for Mastodon (13973)
