This repository is a copy of [coop-cloud/mastodon](https://git.autonomic.zone/coop-cloud/mastodon) but with a fresh README and some Hometown specific configuration. It seems like a good idea to keep the deployment separate since the apps may diverge in their deployment or configuration instructions at some point despite best wishes to remain as mainline Mastodon as possible.
Then, on your host (outside of the containers), you'll need to fix permissions for the volume (see [#2](https://git.autonomic.zone/coop-cloud/hometown/issues/2)):
Check the [sidekiq logs](https://social.lumbung.space/sidekiq/retries), is a bunch of stuff failing? What is the error?
If it looks anything like `blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)];` then it might mean that your elastic search service has put itself into "read-only" state. This could be due to running close to no free disk space one time. ES doesn't undo this state, even when you have more free disk space once more, so you need to handle this manually: