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@@ -14,11 +14,8 @@ An Ansible playbook to install Mastodon
   sure this is not a database you are currently using**
 - Copy roles/mastodon-config/templates/.env.production.sample to
   roles/mastodon-config/templates/.env.production, edit with all
-  relevant details. (SMTP details are probably the only required one,
-  the others you can leave be)
-- Make a hosts file that looks like this (**Make sure that the nodename
-  here is the domain/sub-domain you want for your Mastodon instance, we
-  use it as a variable**):
+  relevant details (LOCAL_DOMAIN value is mandatory, it is your instance domain/sub-domain.)
+- Make a hosts file that looks like this:
 
 ```
 [mastodon]