Administration guide ==================== So, you have a working Mastodon instance... now what? ## Turning into an admin The following rake task: rails mastodon:make_admin USERNAME=alice Would turn the local user "alice" into an admin. ## Administration web interface A user that is designated as `admin = TRUE` in the database is able to access a suite of administration tools: * View, edit, silence, or suspend users - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/accounts * View PubSubHubbub subscriptions - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/pubsubhubbub * View domain blocks - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/domain_blocks * Sidekiq dashboard - https://yourmastodon.instance/sidekiq * PGHero dashboard for PostgreSQL - https://yourmastodon.instance/pghero * Edit site settings - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/settings ## Site settings Your site settings are stored in the `settings` database table, and editable through the admin interface at https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/settings. You are able to set the following settings: - Site title - Contact username - Contact email - Site description - Site extended description You may wish to use the extended description (shown at https://yourmastodon.instance/about/more ) to display content guidelines or a user agreement (see https://mastodon.social/about/more for an example).