Is Mastodon down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Mastodon right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Mastodon continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are can't post or comment, feed won't load, can't log in, can't connect, no notifications, images not loading, website / app down and search not working. Those are the options the report button offers for Mastodon, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Mastodon specifically, federation delays mean your instance may be unreachable while others remain up, or your instance's database and media storage can fail independently from the wider network. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Mastodon, try posting from a different Mastodon instance (like fosstodon.org) and checking if you can see your home instance's public timeline. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Mastodon's side. Specifically: do not repeatedly refresh or retry posting, as queued posts may duplicate when the instance recovers. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Mastodon does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe mastodon.social directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Mastodon says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.mastodon.social, and it is linked further up this page. That is Mastodon's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Mastodon or mastodon.social. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Mastodon's own support, not us.