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Mastodon for iOS

Entertainment — The official Mastodon app brings the decentralized social network to iOS with an intuitive, poli…
Entertainmentopen-source
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 49.4 · 2/4
49.4
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
8
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 34 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 34 probesavg response 788 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentreal
Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack
TechCrunch · Apr 20 · importance 3/5 · 1 tracked mention
Web footprintreal
resolved host
joinmastodon.org
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#6,724
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Mastodon for iOS's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.4 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 1 tracked press mention, 8 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Mastentertainmentcurated0.00.0■ inactive
Twitterentertainmentcurated16.00.0→ redirected
StarCatentertainmentsimilar88%8.00.0— unverified
Facebook Groups (iOS)communicationtag-overlap75%0.00.0■ inactive
Geogramentertainmentsimilar75%40.00.0● live
‎Steam Chat iOScommunicationtag-overlap75%40.0+7.2● live
Live Location in Messengercommunicationtag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
MapSwipe, by Ivan Gayton, Pim de Witte, Sadok Rabadan, Alison Malouf, and Pete Mastersothertag-overlap67%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelopen-source
Liveness tieractive
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:10Z200joinmastodon.org631alive
2026-08-26 09:41Z200joinmastodon.org1022alive
2026-08-19 14:02Z200joinmastodon.org2202alive
2026-08-11 00:37Z200joinmastodon.org973alive
2026-08-08 06:31Z200joinmastodon.org358alive
2026-08-05 18:50Z200joinmastodon.org1267alive
2026-07-30 18:04Z200joinmastodon.org319alive
2026-07-23 09:25Z200joinmastodon.org505alive
2026-07-22 09:28Z200joinmastodon.org279alive
2026-07-21 09:30Z200joinmastodon.org546alive
2026-07-20 09:57Z200joinmastodon.org486alive
2026-07-19 09:08Z200joinmastodon.org930alive
2026-07-18 08:49Z200joinmastodon.org593alive
2026-07-17 09:11Z200joinmastodon.org922alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Mastodon for iOS · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/mastodon-for-ios · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.