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Deploy Mastodon on your own server.

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Mastodon is a unique social networking app that puts control back in your hands. It allows you to curate your own home feed, free from algorithms or ads, ensuring you see only what matters most to you. The app supports a wide range of content types, including audio, video, and picture posts, polls, content warnings, and more, enabling…

Your infrastructureAutomatic HTTPSNo lock-in

Screenshots

A closer look at Mastodon.

Mastodon screenshot 1

Setup time

A few minutes

Deployment

Your own server

Services

5 connected services

Why Mastodon

Everything you need, running where you choose.

Get the full Mastodon experience with Easypanel handling the repetitive infrastructure work around it.

Follow Across Servers
Follow anyone across any Mastodon server from a single account and receive their posts in chronological order. Make your corner of the internet a little more like you.
Moderation Your Way
Each server creates their own rules and regulations, which are enforced locally and not top-down like corporate social media. Join a server with the rules you agree with, or host your own.
Unparalleled Creativity
Mastodon supports audio, video and picture posts, accessibility descriptions, polls, content warnings, animated avatars, custom emojis, thumbnail crop control, and more, to help you express yourself online.
Interoperable
Built on open web protocols, Mastodon can speak with any other platform that implements ActivityPub. With one account you get access to a whole universe of social apps—the fediverse.
Control Your Own Social Media Experience
Mastodon gives you the power to curate your own home feed, without interference from algorithms or ads. Your timeline is filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see.
Decentralized and Independent
Each Mastodon server is a completely independent entity, yet able to interoperate with others to form one global social network. This decentralization ensures that instant global communication doesn't belong to one company.
How it works

From template to live app in three steps.

Easypanel turns the template into real services, storage, and domains on the server you already control.

Already have Easypanel? Open your dashboard at the URL or IP of your own installation.

Installation guide
1
Open your dashboard
Visit the URL or IP of your Easypanel installation and choose the target project.
2
Choose Mastodon
Open Templates, select Mastodon, then review its service names and configuration.
3
Deploy and open your app
Easypanel starts every service and provisions an HTTPS domain for you.
Installation options
The template asks for these values before creating your services.
OptionDefaultRequired

Enable Streaming Service

falseOptional

SMTP Server

Optional

SMTP Port

587Optional

SMTP Login

Optional

SMTP Password

Set during installOptional

SMTP From Address

[email protected]Optional

App Service Name

mastodonRequired

App Service Image

ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon:v4.5.9Required
Resources
Project documentation and source code.
Latest template update
May 4, 2026

Version bumped to v4.5.9

Questions

Deploy with confidence.

The template handles the application setup while Easypanel keeps the infrastructure understandable and under your control.

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Ready to deploy Mastodon?
Open your own Easypanel dashboard, choose Mastodon from Templates, and review the deployment options.