Why “mastodon” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
leave to where? bluesky and mastodon are nearly dead for tech. threads is facebook.
by ricardobeat · Oct 31, 2026
I would recommend Pleroma over Mastodon. Character limits are configurable and I've often seen ones 10k or higher. While Mastodon can see and reply to the fedi posts that long,…
by opan · Oct 31, 2026
Mastodon 5.0: A Closer Look
by birdculture · Oct 31, 2026 · 6 points
I have skimmed the post but some of the things are not minimalism, but replacement of delivery mechanisms. On the other hand I'm also doing something similar in my digital life.…
by bayindirh · Oct 31, 2026
I mean, the rest of us just stopped going there. The interesting tech discussions long since left twitter, and if you are jonesing for a fix there is always bluesky or mastodon
by swiftcoder · Oct 31, 2026
> Now, in fairness to X and Elon and its hard-working employees, the Adolf Hitler fandom does seem to have greatly wound down in the one and a half years since then. I suspect p…
by komali2 · Oct 31, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "mastodon" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "mastodon" over time.
A mastodon is a member of the genus Mammut, which was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths. Mammut is the type genus of the extinct family Mammutidae, which diverged from the ancestors of modern elephants at least 28 million years ago, during the Oligocene. Read more on Wikipedia