Mastodon with Docker rootless, compose, and Nginx reverse proxy

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[this is a repost, I thought I would do it once, since the first got buried fast]

I've written down how I set up my Mastodon server here. This includes some topics that seem not well covered currently:

- use nginx reverse proxy with the official nginx.conf [1], but with some changes for compatibility with docker

- use rootless docker, for security, together with bind mounts, for maintainability; including automatic updates with cron (without Watchtower)

- use compose, with some modifications to the official docker-compose.yml [2] that make life easier and are compatible with the reverse proxy

The rootless docker setup can be used as a blueprint for any docker stack.