Comparison

Mastodon vs Strategy & Solidarity

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mastodon

Connect with others on a decentralized social network. Share posts, images, and videos in chronological order without algorithms or ads. Discover new content and participate in conversations across the fediverse.

Highlights
  • Chronological feed
  • No algorithms or ads
  • Discover new users and topics
  • Post with images, videos, and polls
  • Create custom lists
  • Filter content
  • Cross-platform communication
Features
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Mastodon is the best way to keep up with what’s happening. Follow anyone across the fediverse and see it all in chronological order. No algorithms, ads, or clickbait in sight. This is the official iOS app for Mastodon. In our app, you can: EXPLORE ■ Discover new writers, journalists, artists, photographers, scientists and more ■ See what’s happening in the world READ ■ Keep up with people you care about in a chronological feed with no interruptions ■ Follow hashtags to keep up with specific topics in real time CREATE ■ Post to your followers or the whole world, with polls, high quality images and videos ■ Participate in interesting conversations with other people CURATE ■ Create lists of people to never miss a post ■ Filter words or phrases to control what you do and don’t want to see AND MORE! ■ Login and switch between multiple accounts ■ No spoilers! You can put your posts behind content warnings A POWERFUL PUBLISHING PLATFORM You no longer have to try and appease an opaque algorithm that decides if your friends are going to see what you posted. If they follow you, they’ll see it. If you publish it to the open web, it’s accessible on the open web. You can safely share links to Mastodon in the knowledge that anyone will be able to read them without logging in. Between threads, polls, high quality images, videos, audio, and content warnings, Mastodon offers plenty of ways to express yourself in a way that suits you. A POWERFUL READING PLATFORM We don’t need to show you ads, so we don’t need to keep you in our app. Mastodon has the richest selection of 3rd party apps and integrations so you can choose the experience that fits you best. Thanks to the chronological home feed, it’s easy to tell when you’ve caught up on all updates and can move on to something else. No need to worry that a misclick will ruin your recommendations forever. We don’t guess what you want to see, we let you control it. PROTOCOLS, NOT PLATFORMS Mastodon is not like a traditional social media platform, but is built on a decentralized protocol. You can sign up on our official server, or choose a 3rd party to host your data and moderate your experience. Thanks to the common protocol, no matter what you choose, you can communicate seamlessly with people on other Mastodon servers. But there’s more: With just one account, you can communicate with people from other fediverse platforms. Not happy with your choice? You can always switch to a different Mastodon server while taking your followers with you. For advanced users, you can even host your data on your own infrastructure, since Mastodon is open-source. NON-PROFIT IN NATURE Mastodon is a registered non-profit in the US and Germany. We are not motivated by extracting monetary value from the platform, but by what’s best for the platform. AS FEATURED IN: TIME, Forbes, Wired, The Guardian, CNN, The Verge, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Gizmodo, PCMAG.com, and more.

About

Strategy & Solidarity

This app fosters a community for leaders and activists to develop strategies, build solidarity, and cultivate skills for social justice. It offers a private forum, practice sessions, and spaces for healing and connection.

Highlights
  • Community forum for discussions and resource sharing
  • Live practice sessions for communication and strategy
  • Respite and refuge space for global majority
  • Self-care resources for leader well-being
  • Private virtual workspaces for workshops
  • Mutual support and best practice sharing
Features
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Join us in building Building skills, strategy, solidarity & community for more meaningful outcomes. What is Strategy & Solidarity? Strategy & Solidarity is Subduction Consulting & El Porvenir Services' growing community of leaders, activists, artists, and practitioners! We come together to cultivate skills, develop strategies, foster collaboration, and build solidarity in our collective pursuit of racial justice. Through meaningful engagement and shared experiences, we empower each other to effect positive change in our daily work and beyond. Join us as we work towards realizing our vision of a more just & sustainable world. This is a space for our consultants, colleagues, workshop participants and community members to: —> develop strategies and tactics for advancing social justice in the workplace and beyond; share resources & referrals, provide mutual support, —> create opportunities for collaboration, —> sharpen our skills, —> support individual & collective healing from systems of oppression, —> celebrate our victories, mourn our losses, and get ready for the next fight. What's inside? When you join Strategy & Solidarity you’ll get access to: Solidarity Café: our private community forum for discussing current issues, sharing resources & referrals, making connections, brainstorming strategic interventions & more. The Danger Room: live practice sessions and on demand resources for effective communication, precise strategy, and debriefing the wins and losses in our work for justice. The Affinity Lounge: a place of respite & refuge for the global majority. The Self-Care Sanctuary: meditation moments, nervous system regulation practice sessions, lunch time divination skill shares and more to help leaders avoid burnout, move from passion and with power, without sacrificing physical, emotional, mental or spiritual well being along the way, Private Virtual Workspaces: Dedicated discussion space, resource libraries & private discussion forums for participants in our public workshops & intensive professional development programs. Community Building & Mutual Support: Connect with other leaders & community members dedicated to intersectional social justice, workplace praxis, personal & professional development, to share best practices, troubleshoot challenges and laugh off the shenanigans.

Screenshots

Mastodon4 screens
Strategy & Solidarity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Strategy & Solidarity at 100% against Mastodon's 48%. Strategy & Solidarity also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Mastodon's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Strategy & Solidarity holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mastodon has 13K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Mastodon's written reviews are positive against 100% of Strategy & Solidarity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mastodon ships an update monthly, Strategy & Solidarity weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mastodon versus Strategy & Solidarity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMastodonStrategy & Solidarity
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13K — better7
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB132 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperMastodon GmbHSubduction Consulting, LLC

Customer experience

Mastodon

All ratings13,482 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral5.9%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews890 reviews
Positive48.3%
Neutral18.8%
Negative32.9%

Strategy & Solidarity

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Mastodon

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Can't log in or create account
  • Keyboard freezes during editing
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching accounts
  • Notifications not working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add local and federated timelines
  • Improve search and discovery features
  • Implement edit and delete post functionality
  • Add support for animated GIFs
  • Provide better accessibility options

Strategy & Solidarity

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mastodon

No in-app purchases

None

Strategy & Solidarity

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mastodon free?
Mastodon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strategy & Solidarity free?
Strategy & Solidarity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mastodon or Strategy & Solidarity?
Strategy & Solidarity is rated higher. Mastodon averages 4.5 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Strategy & Solidarity averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Mastodon or Strategy & Solidarity have ads?
Neither Mastodon nor Strategy & Solidarity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mastodon or Strategy & Solidarity?
Mastodon ships an update monthly, and Strategy & Solidarity weekly. Most recently, Mastodon was updated on November 8, 2026 and Strategy & Solidarity on November 4, 2026.

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