# M for Mastodon

My name is Eugen Rochko and I’m the creator of Mastodon, a free, open-source federated social network with over 760,000 users. You can check it out here. The Mastodon project is finally well-represented visually. I always felt like the previous logo did not do it justice. To its credit, it was both an M, and 3 sideways speech bubbles, but it did not scale well and overall it was just a circle. Now, after months of planning and weeks of back and forth with the designer, we have a distinct shape and a distinct font. Along with the logo, we now have a beautiful homepage for the project itself.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2017/08/m-for-mastodon/

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Created: 2026-10-26T02:27:10.396970+00:00

Last edited: 2026-10-26T02:27:10.396970+00:00

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Original source: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2017/08/m-for-mastodon/