diff --git a/rel/files/bin/pleroma_ctl b/rel/files/bin/pleroma_ctl
index f05e3cd57..42fa06a53 100755
--- a/rel/files/bin/pleroma_ctl
+++ b/rel/files/bin/pleroma_ctl
@@ -2,21 +2,28 @@
 # XXX: This should be removed when elixir's releases get custom command support
 
 detect_flavour() {
-    arch="amd64"
-    if getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION >/dev/null; then
-      libc_postfix=""
-    elif [ "$(ldd 2>&1 | head -c 9)" = "musl libc" ]; then
-      libc_postfix="-musl"
-    elif [ "$(find /lib/libc.musl* | wc -l)" ]; then
-      libc_postfix="-musl"
-    else
-      echo "Unsupported libc" >&2
-      exit 1
+	machine_type=$(uname -m)
+	if [ ${machine_type} = 'aarch64' ] ; then
+		arch='arm64'
+	elif [ ${machine_type} = 'x86_64' ] ; then
+		arch='amd64'
+		if getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION >/dev/null; then
+			libc_postfix=""
+		elif [ "$(ldd 2>&1 | head -c 9)" = "musl libc" ]; then
+			libc_postfix="-musl"
+		elif [ "$(find /lib/libc.musl* | wc -l)" ]; then
+			libc_postfix="-musl"
+		else
+			echo "Unsupported libc" >&2
+			exit 1
+		fi
+	else
+		echo "Could not detect your architecture please pass them via --flavour"
+		exit 1
     fi
 
-	echo "$arch$libc_postfix"
+    echo "$arch$libc_postfix"
 }
-
 detect_branch() {
 	version="$(cut -d' ' -f2 <"$RELEASE_ROOT"/releases/start_erl.data)"
 	# Expected format: major.minor.patch_version(-number_of_commits_ahead_of_tag-gcommit_hash).branch