Your federated social network, hosted in France
🔒 VPS onlyA decentralized social network powered by Sharkey (fork of Misskey), installed and maintained by DINAO. Join the Fediverse with your own instance — your posts stay on your French servers.
What is Sharkey?
Sharkey is a decentralized social network software, a modern fork of Misskey, that allows you to host your own instance connected to the Fediverse. Thanks to the ActivityPub protocol, your instance exchanges data with Mastodon, Misskey, and thousands of other servers, without belonging to any centralized platform.
The experience is rich and customizable: custom emoji reactions, discussion threads, quotes, MFM formatting, themes, widgets, and a smooth interface. Sharkey also exposes a Mastodon-compatible API, allowing you to use many existing Fediverse client applications.
On the administration side, you retain control over moderation, registration rules (open, invitation-only, closed), and the instances you federate with. Built on PostgreSQL, Redis and queue workers, with S3 media storage, Sharkey deploys via Docker for a sovereign and controlled community.
Host Sharkey at DINAO
No managed container for Sharkey: this application is installed on a VPS hosted in France (2 vCPU / 2 Go / 10 Go minimum).
Application available on a VPS
This application requires privileged access to the host machine, which is incompatible with managed shared hosting. It is installed on a VPS (virtual private server) that you administer: DINAO delivers it with Docker and the management panel of your choice, and you install and maintain Sharkey yourself. The VPS is not managed by DINAO unless you add the managed-services option when ordering.
Technical reason: bind-mount d'un chemin hôte (volumes nommés uniquement en managé).
Discover the Docker VPS →Requirements for Sharkey: 2 vCPU, 2 Go, 10 Go. Our Docker VPS at €11 excl. VAT per month covers them.
Technical details
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You might be wondering…
What is the Fediverse and why Sharkey?
The Fediverse is a decentralized social network where thousands of instances communicate via ActivityPub. Sharkey, a modern fork of Misskey, gives you your own instance — feature-rich — connected to Mastodon and the rest of the network.
Can my members follow Mastodon accounts?
Yes. Thanks to ActivityPub, your members interact with Mastodon, Misskey, and all other compatible instances, from your Sharkey instance.
Where is the data hosted?
On DINAO infrastructure in France, in one of the available data centers. Your posts and media do not leave the territory.
Can I control moderation and registrations?
Yes. You choose the rules, open or close registrations, manage moderation, and decide which instances you federate with (allow or block lists).
Can I change my plan or export my data?
Yes. You can upgrade or downgrade at any time, and your data remains exportable — no proprietary lock-in.
