Setting up your own mastodon instance

So simply joining an existing mastodon instance is not enough for you, you want control? Set up your own! The official documentation has a page about that, including listing a bunch of specialised hosting providers that will do this installation bit for you. But we like the more difficult road with the rewarding learning curve around here. Make sure you get get your linux box prepared, and we'll get into setting up a mastodon instance on local hardware, running linux, without docker, and without cloud storage.

Step 1; Get to installing mastodon

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Step 2; Get to customising mastodon

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Step 3; Should you set up an instance for other people?

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