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

Incoming ActivityPub Move is processed. Outgoing moves use Friendica's own account export and import, not Move.

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

Only followed accounts can be imported from CSV, not blocks or mutes.

Self-deletion only if the admin enables open_deletion, and the deletion is not federated to other servers.

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

OIDC, SAML, CAS and LDAP via environment configuration.

Needs the saml or ldapauth addon. Core only offers legacy OpenID login.

Only the profile homepage link is checked for rel=me, not custom fields.

News pages are published as Service actors.

One account can own several blogs, each its own ActivityPub actor, up to the admin's max_blogs limit.

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

Needs the markdown addon; BBCode is the native format.

Limit is a hardcoded constant of 500.

Polls from other servers are shown with results, but polls cannot be created or voted on.

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

Future-dated posts stay hidden on the blog until their date, but are not federated when they go live.

Posts can be pinned on the blog, but pins are not federated as a featured collection.

Only per blog: posts on private or password-protected blogs are never federated.

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

Admin must configure DeepL or LibreTranslate.

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

GIFs are converted to looping MP4 (gifv).

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

Animation is kept only when the PHP Imagick extension is installed.

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

Converted to JPEG on upload.

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

Converted to JPEG on upload.

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

Not a supported image type yet (marked as a todo in the code).

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

Uploaded as a file attachment and shown as video; no transcoding.

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

Uploaded as a file attachment and shown as video; no transcoding.

No media upload; images can only be embedded by URL in Markdown.

Uploaded as a file attachment and shown as audio.

Limit is 4 attachments per post.

Needs the nsfw addon, which collapses posts matching chosen words such as #nsfw.

Likes from other servers are received and shown as a count to the author only. WriteFreely users cannot like posts.

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

Called circles.

Remote Events are shown as posts but cannot be created.

Only per blog: an unlisted blog is left out of the Reader timeline but reachable by link.

Only as an account-wide setting that makes all public posts unlisted, not per post.

Called ignoring.

People can ignore a remote server to hide its posts; it is not a full block.

Needs the advancedcontentfilter addon; core channels can also exclude terms.

Incoming Flag reports are received. The forward option is stored but no Flag is sent to the remote server.

Allowed Friend Domains limits which domains can connect; not a full federation allowlist.

Invitations are sent by email; invite-only mode needs invitation_only in local.config.php.

Uses hCaptcha, a third-party service.

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

The Reader timeline, enabled by the admin with local_timeline.

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.

iOS app for iPhone and iPad only; no Android app.

Needs the s3_storage addon.

Each blog can set custom CSS.