Hi, I am

John Mastodon.

I was born on December 16

Celebrate John Mastodon Day on December 16-17, 2024. (Tell Me How!)

Celebrating

Has John Mastodon inspired you? Did you do something incredible like invent a social network and name it after yourself? On #JohnMastodonDay update your profile to tell the world your fictious claim to fame, just like John:

I invented the question mark when I was only 4 years old. I currently hold patents on 12 different punctuation symbols. #JohnMastodonDay

Be sure to put the #JohnMastodonDay hashtag in your profile. Spread John’s love!

Following hashtags is how you see conversations that involve people you don’t directly follow. Follow the #JohnMastodonDay hashtag on your Mastodon account and your feed will overflow with John’s love!
Following hashtags is how you see conversations that involve people you don’t directly follow. Follow the #JohnMastodonDay hashtag in your profile. Spread John’s love!

Origin Story

16 December 2022
Immaculate Conception

It began as a typo. Isaac Schorr published an article titled Hypocrisy and Fear All the Way Down at Twitter on mediaite.com creating John Mastodon from whole cloth saying:

Before this latest wave of suspensions, Twitter had already suspended the account posting the location of Musk’s jet. Then, the platform removed John Mastodon, the founder of a competing social media company named after himself, for posting a link to the jet tracker’s Mastodon account.

13 December 2023
What is this really?

We’re taking the piss out of this article and remembering all the fun we had back in 2022. It was so sloppy, so totally rushed out with no checking at all in the breathless days after Elon Musk acquired Twitter.

Here are some contemporaneous accounts from that time.