diff --git a/docs/dev/engines/online/mastodon.rst b/docs/dev/engines/online/mastodon.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+.. _mastodon engine:
+
+========
+Mastodon
+========
+
+.. contents:: Contents
+   :depth: 2
+   :local:
+   :backlinks: entry
+
+.. automodule:: searx.engines.mastodon
+  :members:
diff --git a/searx/engines/mastodon.py b/searx/engines/mastodon.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f9d4014f
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@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+# lint: pylint
+"""Mastodon_ is an open source alternative to large social media platforms like
+Twitter/X, Facebook, ...
+
+Since it's federated and self-hostable, there's a large amount of available
+instances, which can be chosen instead by modifying ``base_url``.
+
+We use their official API_ for searching, but unfortunately, their Search API_
+forbids pagination without OAuth.
+
+That's why we use tootfinder.ch for finding posts, which doesn't support searching
+for users, accounts or other types of content on Mastodon however.
+
+.. _Mastodon: https://mastodon.social
+.. _API: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/
+
+"""
+
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+from datetime import datetime
+
+about = {
+    "website": 'https://joinmastodon.org/',
+    "wikidata_id": 'Q27986619',
+    "official_api_documentation": 'https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/',
+    "use_official_api": True,
+    "require_api_key": False,
+    "results": 'JSON',
+}
+categories = ['social media']
+
+base_url = "https://mastodon.social"
+mastodon_type = "accounts"
+
+# https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/2857#issuecomment-1741713999
+page_size = 40
+
+
+def request(query, params):
+    args = {
+        'q': query,
+        'resolve': 'false',
+        'type': mastodon_type,
+        'limit': page_size,
+    }
+    params['url'] = f"{base_url}/api/v2/search?{urlencode(args)}"
+    return params
+
+
+def response(resp):
+    results = []
+
+    json = resp.json()
+
+    for result in json[mastodon_type]:
+        if mastodon_type == "accounts":
+            results.append(
+                {
+                    'url': result['uri'],
+                    'title': result['username'] + f" ({result['followers_count']} followers)",
+                    'content': result['note'],
+                    'thumbnail': result.get('avatar'),
+                    'publishedDate': datetime.strptime(result['created_at'][:10], "%Y-%m-%d"),
+                }
+            )
+        elif mastodon_type == "hashtags":
+            uses_count = sum(int(entry['uses']) for entry in result['history'])
+            user_count = sum(int(entry['accounts']) for entry in result['history'])
+            results.append(
+                {
+                    'url': result['url'],
+                    'title': result['name'],
+                    'content': f"Hashtag has been used {uses_count} times by {user_count} different users",
+                }
+            )
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unsupported mastodon type: {mastodon_type}")
+
+    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 0d3c73341..5012f07ad 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -1016,6 +1016,18 @@ engines:
       require_api_key: false
       results: HTML
 
+  - name: mastodon users
+    engine: mastodon
+    mastodon_type: accounts
+    base_url: https://mastodon.social
+    shortcut: mau
+
+  - name: mastodon hashtags
+    engine: mastodon
+    mastodon_type: hashtags
+    base_url: https://mastodon.social
+    shortcut: mah
+
   - name: matrixrooms
     engine: matrixrooms
     shortcut: mtrx