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Outgoing moves via account migration and incoming Move activities are both supported.

Incoming and outgoing moves; only followers are carried over.

Move account API and incoming Move activities.

CSV exports of following, followers, lists, blocks and mutes; no posts or media.

Follows, blocks, mutes, domain blocks, bookmarks, lists and filters.

Follows, blocks and mutes.

TOTP; not available when OIDC sign-in is used.

WebAuthn security keys work as a second factor after TOTP is enabled.

OIDC, SAML, CAS and LDAP via environment configuration.

OpenID Connect.

LDAP built in; other providers through Ueberauth OAuth strategies.

Default limit is 10 fields.

Formatting in posts from other servers is shown; local posts are plain text.

Markdown, BBCode and MFM source formats.

Markdown is an opt-in default post format.

Default limit is 5000 characters.

Limit is a hardcoded constant of 500.

Set statuses-max-chars in config.yaml.

Set :instance limit in config, or in admin-fe when database config is enabled.

Only through the API and third-party apps; the web interface has no scheduler.

Outgoing posts always mark quoting as author-only.

Per-post expiry; admins can also set a global expiry via MRF.

Local posts are always Note or Question; remote Articles are displayed.

Admin must configure DeepL or LibreTranslate.

Admin must configure DeepL, LibreTranslate or ArgosTranslate.

GIFs are converted to looping MP4 (gifv).

Converted to JPEG on upload.

Converted to JPEG on upload.

MP3, FLAC and other formats via embedded ffmpeg.

Limit is 4 attachments per post.

Default limit is 6 per post.

No limit on attachment count is enforced.

Best effort for images; EXIF is not removed from MP4 videos.

No EmojiReact handling; Misskey style reactions arrive as plain favourites.

Remote Events are shown as posts but cannot be created.

Crawlers are disallowed unless the account is both discoverable and indexable.

Indexing by search bots is controlled by the discoverable flag.

Always on: all incoming GET and POST requests must be signed.

SimplePolicy can remove a server from public timelines, strip media or mark it sensitive.

Documented as experimental.

Import in CSV, JSON or plaintext, or subscribe to a list URL.

Sign-ups always require admin approval.

Docs say invites are not implemented yet.

Uses hCaptcha, a third-party service.

Built-in native captcha provider.

Message Rewrite Facility, including keyword, media and per-server policies.

Needs Elasticsearch or OpenSearch; covers opted-in posts and posts you interacted with.

Only searches your own posts and replies to you.

Built-in database search; Meilisearch or Elasticsearch optional.

Opt-in per account; profile feeds only.

Inbound since 4.5; outbound as a fallback since 4.7.

Verifies incoming FEP-8b32 proofs; does not emit them.

Only ActivityPub server-to-server is supported.

Docs point people to third-party clients such as Tusky and Feditext.

Official Docker setup is provided, but the image is built locally rather than published.

PostgreSQL is required.

PostgreSQL is required.

Admins can add custom Elixir MRF policy modules; no general plugin system.