Bluesky AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Mastodon Clients

The best Mastodon Client alternative to Bluesky is Mastodon, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Bluesky and three of them are Mastodon Clients so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mastodon Client alternatives to Bluesky are Flare social client and Enafore.

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    Mastodon

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    Decentralized and federated social platform with no ads, focusing on personal interaction, and offering 500 character posts, custom emojis, content warnings, and robust moderation tools.

    133 Mastodon alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
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    • iPad
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    • F-Droid
    • Cloudron
    • Android Tablet
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    Comments about Mastodon as an Alternative to Bluesky
    naught101
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    It's open source, and already functionally operating as a federated network.

    ourari
    Positive
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    Unlike Bluesky, Mastodon has not taken on venture capital. Venture capital leads to ensh*ttification. Mastodon is a non-profit, paid for by users, donations and subsidies. It really is the billionaire-proof social network that Bluesky only pretends to be.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Mastodon is a great Bluesky alternative.

    • Mastodon is the most popular Web-based, Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to Bluesky.

    • Mastodon is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Bluesky.

    • Mastodon is Free and Open SourceBluesky is also Free and Open Source
    • Mastodon is Privacy focusedBluesky is not according to our users
  2. Flare social client icon

    Flare social client

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    Flare is an open-source social client that merges your feeds from Mastodon, Misskey, Bluesky, X, and RSS into a single timeline, turning it into your personal information hub, with Android/iOS and macOS/Windows Support

    49 Flare social client alternatives

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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    Enafore

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    Maintained fork of Pinafore. A somewhat unstable fediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp instances.

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    • Online
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