So, you have a working Mastodon instance... now what?
The following rake task:
rails mastodon:make_admin USERNAME=alice
Would turn the local user "alice" into an admin.
A user that is designated as admin = TRUE
in the database is able to access a suite of administration tools:
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:
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).