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

Move account API and incoming Move activities.

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

Follows, blocks and mutes.

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

OIDC, SAML, CAS and LDAP via environment configuration.

LDAP is built in; OAuth consumer login (Keycloak, Google and others) is set via an environment variable.

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.

Plain text, HTML, Markdown and BBCode are allowed post formats by default.

Markdown, BBCode and MFM source formats.

Default limit is 5000 characters.

Limit is a hardcoded constant of 500.

Set in the config file, or in AdminFE only if database config is enabled (off by default).

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.

One pinned post by default (max_pinned_statuses).

Per-post expiry via expires_in.

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.

Needs an admin to configure DeepL, LibreTranslate, Mozhi or translateLocally.

Admin must configure DeepL, LibreTranslate or ArgosTranslate.

Any file type can be attached by default.

GIFs are converted to looping MP4 (gifv).

Converted to JPEG on upload.

Converted to JPEG on upload.

Limit is 4 attachments per post.

max_media_attachments defaults to 1000.

No limit on attachment count is enforced.

Needs the Exiftool StripLocation upload filter; setup enables it by default only when exiftool is installed.

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

Remote Events are shown as posts but cannot be created.

Controlled by the discoverable setting.

Indexing by search bots is controlled by the discoverable flag.

Off by default (authorized_fetch_mode).

SimplePolicy can remove a server from the federated timeline, force NSFW or strip media.

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

SimplePolicy accept list.

Uses hCaptcha, a third-party service.

Built-in native captcha, enabled by default.

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.

Built-in database search by default; Meilisearch or Qdrant optional.

Built-in database search; Meilisearch or Elasticsearch optional.

User RSS and Atom feeds and hashtag RSS feeds.

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.

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

PostgreSQL only.

PostgreSQL is required.

PostgreSQL only.

PostgreSQL is required.

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