# Depot builds Mastodon multi-platform images 53x faster (https://depot.dev/changelog/2023-02-15-mastodon-benchmark)

> Published 2023-02-15

<img alt="Depot builds Mastodon 53x faster" src="/images/mastodon-benchmark.png" width="1322" height="927" />

We have always believed in showing rather than telling, which is the philosophy behind the benchmarks on our landing page. We benchmark real-world open-source projects, building them with both `depot build` and `docker build` in GitHub Actions, for every upstream commit. And the benchmarks themselves are open source, you can click on any of them and see the side-by-side comparison of every run.

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub, where users can follow friends and discover new ones. They have been building multi-platform images in GitHub Actions, with 3-hour build times.

We set up [a benchmark using Depot](/benchmark/mastodon) and the results shattered our existing records. We built Mastodon's multi-platform image **53x faster** than building it in GitHub Actions with Docker. We hope to contribute this back upstream to Mastodon in the weeks ahead.

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