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Mastodon Bird UI

Twitter-like theme for self-hosted Mastodon

Social Networks ★ 511 stars Easy setup MIT

Mastodon Bird UI is a popular user style and theme that restyles the standard Mastodon web interface to resemble the classic Twitter layout. It can be installed on any self-hosted Mastodon instance.

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Key features

  • Twitter-style theme for Mastodon
  • Drop-in CSS customization
  • Works on any instance

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in SCSS
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 32 MB RAM

Is Mastodon Bird UI secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Mastodon Bird UI's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Mastodon Bird UI replaces

Self-hosted Twitter web interface alternatives

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