Overview

Mastodon is a free, open-source decentralized social network. Create your own social network and join the fediverse while keeping control of your data.

Key Features

  • Federated Network: Connect with millions across the fediverse
  • Content Control: Robust moderation and content warning tools
  • No Algorithms: Chronological timeline without manipulation
  • Data Portability: Move your account between servers

Architecture

This pattern deploys a complete Mastodon infrastructure including:

  • Auto-scaling EC2 instances for web and Sidekiq
  • RDS PostgreSQL database
  • ElastiCache Redis for caching and queues
  • OpenSearch for full-text search
  • S3 for media storage
  • CloudFront CDN

Getting Started

  1. Subscribe to the pattern on AWS Marketplace
  2. Launch the CloudFormation stack
  3. Configure your instance settings
  4. Start building your community

Open Source Resources

This pattern is fully open source. View the code, report issues, or contribute on GitHub.

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