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setting up your new instance mastodon documentation what is mastodon using mastodon signing up for an account setting up your profile posting to your profile using the network features quoting other posts dealing with unwanted content promoting yourself and others set your preferences more settings using mastodon externally moving or leaving accounts official ios and android apps running your own server running mastodon preparing your machine installing from source configuring your environment configuring full text search installing optional features object storage onion services captcha single sign on setting up your new instance using the admin cli upgrading to a new release backing up your server migrating to a new machine scaling up your server moderation actions troubleshooting errors database index corruption webhooks roles developing mastodon apps getting started with the api playing with public data obtaining client app access logging in with an account libraries and implementations implementing quote posts implementing collections contributing to mastodon technical overview setting up a dev environment code structure routes security issues and responsible disclosure frontend guide components state management css and styling creating themes design tokens reference spec compliance activitypub webfinger security microformats oauth bearcaps rest api datetime formats guidelines and best practices oauth tokens oauth scopes rate limits api methods accounts blocks bookmarks domain_blocks endorsements favourites featured_tags filters follow_requests followed_tags mutes preferences reports suggestions tags admin accounts canonical_email_blocks dimensions domain_allows domain_blocks email_domain_blocks ip_blocks measures reports retention trends annual reports apps emails oauth async_refreshes collections grouped notifications health instance announcements custom_emojis directory trends notifications push oembed profile proofs search statuses media polls scheduled_statuses timelines conversations lists markers streaming api entities account accountwarning admin account admin canonicalemailblock admin cohort admin dimension admin domainallow admin domainblock admin emaildomainblock admin ip admin ipblock admin measure admin report announcement annualreport appeal application asyncrefresh collection collectionitem collectionwithaccounts context conversation customemoji domainblock error extendeddescription familiarfollowers featureapproval featuredtag filter filterkeyword filterresult filterstatus identityproof instance list marker mediaattachment notification notificationfallback notificationpolicy notificationrequest poll preferences previewcard previewcardauthor privacypolicy profile quote quoteapproval reaction relationship relationshipseveranceevent report role rule scheduledstatus search shallowquote shallowtag status statusedit statussource suggestion tag termsofservice token translation v1 filter v1 instance v1 notificationpolicy webpushsubscription setting up your new instance things to do after installing mastodon creating an admin account filling in server information creating an admin account registrations are disabled by default in the browser so you will need to use the command line to create an account with admin privileges assuming your username is alice rails_env production bin tootctl accounts create alice email alice example com confirmed role owner a randomly generated password will be shown in the terminal you will need to approve your new admin account rails_env production bin tootctl accounts modify alice approve prior to mastodon 4 0 roles were hardcoded to be one of user moderator or admin since mastodon 4 0 there is a customizable role system with default roles created for moderator admin and owner names of custom roles are case sensitive filling in server information after logging in navigate to the site settings page under preferences administration while there are no technical requirements for filling in this information it is considered crucial for operating a server for humans setting meaning contact username your username so people know who owns the server business email an email address so people locked out of their accounts or people without accounts can contact you instance description why did you start this server who is it for what makes it different custom extended information you can put all sorts of information in here but a code of conduct is recommended after you fill these in click save changes last updated august 27 2025 improve this page also available in 简体中文 sponsored by join mastodon blog view source cc by sa 4 0 imprint