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

No Move activity support in beta.14.

The actor has no alsoKnownAs.

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

People can delete their own account by default, but no Delete for the account is sent to other servers.

Deletion can be requested in settings, but beta.14 does not send an account Delete to other servers.

Needs the bundled 2factor plugin, which is not enabled by default.

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

WebAuthn security keys as a second factor via the bundled 2factor plugin, not enabled by default.

Two-factor is TOTP only; no WebAuthn code in beta.14.

OIDC, SAML, CAS and LDAP via environment configuration.

Needs a plugin, such as the official OAuth2 multiple-client SSO plugin.

Admins define the custom fields and users fill in the values; federated as PropertyValue.

Profiles have an avatar only.

Actors are always type Person.

Content warnings on incoming remote posts are shown; local posts are not sent with one.

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

Limit is a hardcoded constant of 500.

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

Topics only; by default only admins and global moderators have the schedule privilege.

Comments can only be turned on or off per video.

Videos have a language field, but it is not federated.

Pinned videos show on the profile but are not published as a featured collection.

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

The first post of a topic federates as an Article with the topic title.

Hashtag feeds exist only for trending tags shown in Explore.

Needs the bundled link-preview plugin, which is not enabled by default.

Admin must configure DeepL or LibreTranslate.

Posts are videos only.

Posts are videos only.

GIFs are converted to looping MP4 (gifv).

Posts are videos only.

Posts are videos only.

Converted to JPEG on upload.

Posts are videos only.

Converted to JPEG on upload.

Posts are videos only.

mp4 is an allowed extension, but by default only global moderators have the file upload privilege.

webm is an allowed extension, but by default only global moderators have the file upload privilege.

Not in the default allowed types (mp4, mov, m4v).

Admins must add audio extensions and grant the file upload privilege, which only global moderators have by default.

Posts are videos only.

One video per post.

Limit is 4 attachments per post.

One video per post.

Videos can be grouped into playlists.

Videos are served as one transcoded MP4; no HLS output.

No live streaming in beta.14.

Upvotes federate as Like.

No repost action in beta.14; incoming Announces of Loops videos are accepted.

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

Downvotes federate as Dislike.

Chat messages federate as private Notes.

Remote groups appear as remote categories that people can follow and post topics to.

Each category is a Group actor.

Remote Events are shown as posts but cannot be created.

Incoming Flag reports are received; local reports are not sent to other servers.

Admins subscribe to CSV blocklist URLs.

Admins can paste a list of domains to add in bulk; no blocklist file import.

Curated onboarding mode.

Invites are created by admins.

Uses hCaptcha, a third-party service.

Needs the bundled Spam Be Gone plugin, which uses reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha or Turnstile.

Needs hCaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile.

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

Popular and top topic pages.

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.

Loops has its own REST API.

Apps for iOS and Android.