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Misskey

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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintNeeds Postgres19+ active committers (12mo)

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Misskey is an open-source federated social media platform designed for people and communities that want to run their own social instance. The README positions it as free forever and directs readers...

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Features

  • federated social networking
  • instance-based hosting
  • community support
  • contributor workflows
  • localization

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Last Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Created
Dec 25, 2016
Runtime / Stack
NodejsDocker
Privacy & Independence
Cloud: Optional
User Model
Multi-UserMulti-Tenant
Deployment

Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers

Run Misskey with Docker Compose

Compose file from the Misskey project repository.

2 services · database: postgres · infra: redis, postgres

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (2 volumes)

compose.local-db.yml · @ feaa29f · scanned Sep 24, 2026

# このconfigは、 dockerでMisskey本体を起動せず、 redisとpostgresql などだけを起動します

services:
  redis:
    restart: always
    image: redis:7-alpine
    ports:
      - "6379:6379"
    volumes:
      - ./redis:/data
    healthcheck:
      test: "redis-cli ping"
      interval: 5s
      retries: 20

  db:
    restart: always
    image: postgres:18-alpine
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"
    env_file:
      - .config/docker.env
    volumes:
      - ./db:/var/lib/postgresql
    healthcheck:
      test: "pg_isready -U $$POSTGRES_USER -d $$POSTGRES_DB"
      interval: 5s
      retries: 20

#  meilisearch:
#    restart: always
#    image: getmeili/meilisearch:v1.3.4
#    environment:
#      - MEILI_NO_ANALYTICS=true
#      - MEILI_ENV=production
#    env_file:
#      - .config/meilisearch.env
#    volumes:
#      - ./meili_data:/meili_data


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