akkoma/docs/config.md

Configuration

This file describe the configuration, it is recommended to edit the relevant *.secret.exs file instead of the others founds in the config directory. If you run Pleroma with MIX_ENV=prod the file is prod.secret.exs, otherwise it is dev.secret.exs.

Pleroma.Upload

• uploader: Select which Pleroma.Uploaders to use
• filters: List of Pleroma.Upload.Filter to use.
• base_url: The base URL to access a user-uploaded file. Useful when you want to proxy the media files via another host.
• proxy_remote: If you're using a remote uploader, Pleroma will proxy media requests instead of redirecting to it.
• proxy_opts: Proxy options, see Pleroma.ReverseProxy documentation.

Note: strip_exif has been replaced by Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Mogrify.

Pleroma.Uploaders.Local

• uploads: Which directory to store the user-uploads in, relative to pleroma’s working directory

Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Mogrify

• args: List of actions for the mogrify command like "strip" or ["strip", "auto-orient", {"impode", "1"}].

Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Dedupe

No specific configuration.

Pleroma.Upload.Filter.AnonymizeFilename

This filter replaces the filename (not the path) of an upload. For complete obfuscation, add Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Dedupe before AnonymizeFilename.

• text: Text to replace filenames in links. If empty, {random}.extension will be used.

Pleroma.Mailer

• adapter: one of the mail adapters listed in Swoosh readme, or Swoosh.Adapters.Local for in-memory mailbox.
• api_key / password and / or other adapter-specific settings, per the above documentation.

An example for Sendgrid adapter:

config :pleroma, Pleroma.Mailer,
  adapter: Swoosh.Adapters.Sendgrid,
  api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY"

An example for SMTP adapter:

config :pleroma, Pleroma.Mailer,
  adapter: Swoosh.Adapters.SMTP,
  relay: "smtp.gmail.com",
  username: "YOUR_USERNAME@gmail.com",
  password: "YOUR_SMTP_PASSWORD",
  port: 465,
  ssl: true,
  tls: :always,
  auth: :always

:uri_schemes

• valid_schemes: List of the scheme part that is considered valid to be an URL

:instance

• name: The instance’s name
• email: Email used to reach an Administrator/Moderator of the instance
• description: The instance’s description, can be seen in nodeinfo and /api/v1/instance
• limit: Posts character limit (CW/Subject included in the counter)
• remote_limit: Hard character limit beyond which remote posts will be dropped.
• upload_limit: File size limit of uploads (except for avatar, background, banner)
• avatar_upload_limit: File size limit of user’s profile avatars
• background_upload_limit: File size limit of user’s profile backgrounds
• banner_upload_limit: File size limit of user’s profile banners
• registrations_open: Enable registrations for anyone, invitations can be enabled when false.
• invites_enabled: Enable user invitations for admins (depends on registrations_open: false).
• account_activation_required: Require users to confirm their emails before signing in.
• federating: Enable federation with other instances
• federation_reachability_timeout_days: Timeout (in days) of each external federation target being unreachable prior to pausing federating to it.
• allow_relay: Enable Pleroma’s Relay, which makes it possible to follow a whole instance
• rewrite_policy: Message Rewrite Policy, either one or a list. Here are the ones available by default:
  • Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.NoOpPolicy: Doesn’t modify activities (default)
  • Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.DropPolicy: Drops all activities. It generally doesn’t makes sense to use in production
  • Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.SimplePolicy: Restrict the visibility of activities from certains instances (See :mrf_simple section)
  • Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.RejectNonPublic: Drops posts with non-public visibility settings (See :mrf_rejectnonpublic section)
  • Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.EnsureRePrepended: Rewrites posts to ensure that replies to posts with subjects do not have an identical subject and instead begin with re:.
• public: Makes the client API in authentificated mode-only except for user-profiles. Useful for disabling the Local Timeline and The Whole Known Network.
• quarantined_instances: List of ActivityPub instances where private(DMs, followers-only) activities will not be send.
• managed_config: Whenether the config for pleroma-fe is configured in this config or in static/config.json
• allowed_post_formats: MIME-type list of formats allowed to be posted (transformed into HTML)
• finmoji_enabled: Whenether to enable the finmojis in the custom emojis.
• mrf_transparency: Make the content of your Message Rewrite Facility settings public (via nodeinfo).
• scope_copy: Copy the scope (private/unlisted/public) in replies to posts by default.
• subject_line_behavior: Allows changing the default behaviour of subject lines in replies. Valid values:
  • "email": Copy and preprend re:, as in email.
  • "masto": Copy verbatim, as in Mastodon.
  • "noop": Don't copy the subject.
• always_show_subject_input: When set to false, auto-hide the subject field when it's empty.
• extended_nickname_format: Set to true to use extended local nicknames format (allows underscores/dashes). This will break federation with older software for theses nicknames.
• max_pinned_statuses: The maximum number of pinned statuses. 0 will disable the feature.
• autofollowed_nicknames: Set to nicknames of (local) users that every new user should automatically follow.
• no_attachment_links: Set to true to disable automatically adding attachment link text to statuses

:logger

• backends: :console is used to send logs to stdout, {ExSyslogger, :ex_syslogger} to log to syslog

An example to enable ONLY ExSyslogger (f/ex in prod.secret.exs) with info and debug suppressed:

config :logger, 
  backends: [{ExSyslogger, :ex_syslogger}]

config :logger, :ex_syslogger,
  level: :warn

Another example, keeping console output and adding the pid to syslog output:

config :logger,
  backends: [:console, {ExSyslogger, :ex_syslogger}]

config :logger, :ex_syslogger,
  level: :warn,
  option: [:pid, :ndelay]

See: logger’s documentation and ex_syslogger’s documentation

:frontend_configurations

This can be used to configure a keyword list that keeps the configuration data for any kind of frontend. By default, settings for pleroma_fe are configured.

Frontends can access these settings at /api/pleroma/frontend_configurations

To add your own configuration for PleromaFE, use it like this:

config :pleroma, :frontend_configurations, pleroma_fe: %{redirectRootNoLogin: "/main/all", ...}

These settings need to be complete, they will override the defaults. See priv/static/static/config.json for the available keys.

:fe

THIS IS DEPRECATED

If you are using this method, please change it to the frontend_configurations method. Please set this option to false in your config like this: config :pleroma, :fe, false.

This section is used to configure Pleroma-FE, unless :managed_config in :instance is set to false.

• theme: Which theme to use, they are defined in styles.json
• logo: URL of the logo, defaults to Pleroma’s logo
• logo_mask: Whether to use only the logo's shape as a mask (true) or as a regular image (false)
• logo_margin: What margin to use around the logo
• background: URL of the background, unless viewing a user profile with a background that is set
• redirect_root_no_login: relative URL which indicates where to redirect when a user isn’t logged in.
• redirect_root_login: relative URL which indicates where to redirect when a user is logged in.
• show_instance_panel: Whenether to show the instance’s specific panel.
• scope_options_enabled: Enable setting an notice visibility and subject/CW when posting
• formatting_options_enabled: Enable setting a formatting different than plain-text (ie. HTML, Markdown) when posting, relates to :instance, allowed_post_formats
• collapse_message_with_subjects: When a message has a subject(aka Content Warning), collapse it by default
• hide_post_stats: Hide notices statistics(repeats, favorites, …)
• hide_user_stats: Hide profile statistics(posts, posts per day, followers, followings, …)

:mrf_simple

• media_removal: List of instances to remove medias from
• media_nsfw: List of instances to put medias as NSFW(sensitive) from
• federated_timeline_removal: List of instances to remove from Federated (aka The Whole Known Network) Timeline
• reject: List of instances to reject any activities from
• accept: List of instances to accept any activities from

:mrf_rejectnonpublic

• allow_followersonly: whether to allow followers-only posts
• allow_direct: whether to allow direct messages

:mrf_hellthread

• delist_threshold: Number of mentioned users after which the message gets delisted (the message can still be seen, but it will not show up in public timelines and mentioned users won't get notifications about it). Set to 0 to disable.
• reject_threshold: Number of mentioned users after which the messaged gets rejected. Set to 0 to disable.

:mrf_keyword

• reject: A list of patterns which result in message being rejected, each pattern can be a string or a regular expression
• federated_timeline_removal: A list of patterns which result in message being removed from federated timelines (a.k.a unlisted), each pattern can be a string or a regular expression
• replace: A list of tuples containing {pattern, replacement}, pattern can be a string or a regular expression

:media_proxy

• enabled: Enables proxying of remote media to the instance’s proxy
• base_url: The base URL to access a user-uploaded file. Useful when you want to proxy the media files via another host/CDN fronts.
• proxy_opts: All options defined in Pleroma.ReverseProxy documentation, defaults to [max_body_length: (25*1_048_576)].

:gopher

• enabled: Enables the gopher interface
• ip: IP address to bind to
• port: Port to bind to

:activitypub

• accept_blocks: Whether to accept incoming block activities from other instances
• unfollow_blocked: Whether blocks result in people getting unfollowed
• outgoing_blocks: Whether to federate blocks to other instances
• deny_follow_blocked: Whether to disallow following an account that has blocked the user in question

:http_security

• enabled: Whether the managed content security policy is enabled
• sts: Whether to additionally send a Strict-Transport-Security header
• sts_max_age: The maximum age for the Strict-Transport-Security header if sent
• ct_max_age: The maximum age for the Expect-CT header if sent
• referrer_policy: The referrer policy to use, either "same-origin" or "no-referrer".

:mrf_user_allowlist

The keys in this section are the domain names that the policy should apply to. Each key should be assigned a list of users that should be allowed through by their ActivityPub ID.

An example:

config :pleroma, :mrf_user_allowlist,
  "example.org": ["https://example.org/users/admin"]

:web_push_encryption, :vapid_details

Web Push Notifications configuration. You can use the mix task mix web_push.gen.keypair to generate it.

• subject: a mailto link for the administrative contact. It’s best if this email is not a personal email address, but rather a group email so that if a person leaves an organization, is unavailable for an extended period, or otherwise can’t respond, someone else on the list can.
• public_key: VAPID public key
• private_key: VAPID private key

Pleroma.Captcha

• enabled: Whether the captcha should be shown on registration
• method: The method/service to use for captcha
• seconds_valid: The time in seconds for which the captcha is valid

Pleroma.Captcha.Kocaptcha

Kocaptcha is a very simple captcha service with a single API endpoint, the source code is here: https://github.com/koto-bank/kocaptcha. The default endpoint https://captcha.kotobank.ch is hosted by the developer.

• endpoint: the kocaptcha endpoint to use

:admin_token

Allows to set a token that can be used to authenticate with the admin api without using an actual user by giving it as the 'admin_token' parameter. Example:

config :pleroma, :admin_token, "somerandomtoken"

You can then do

curl "http://localhost:4000/api/pleroma/admin/invite_token?admin_token=somerandomtoken"

Pleroma.Web.Federator

• max_jobs: The maximum amount of parallel federation jobs running at the same time.

Pleroma.Web.Federator.RetryQueue

• enabled: If set to true, failed federation jobs will be retried
• max_jobs: The maximum amount of parallel federation jobs running at the same time.
• initial_timeout: The initial timeout in seconds
• max_retries: The maximum number of times a federation job is retried

Pleroma.Web.Metadata

• providers: a list of metadata providers to enable. Providers availible:
  • Pleroma.Web.Metadata.Providers.OpenGraph
  • Pleroma.Web.Metadata.Providers.TwitterCard
• unfurl_nsfw: If set to true nsfw attachments will be shown in previews

:rich_media

• enabled: if enabled the instance will parse metadata from attached links to generate link previews

:hackney_pools

Advanced. Tweaks Hackney (http client) connections pools.

There's three pools used:

• :federation for the federation jobs. You may want this pool max_connections to be at least equal to the number of federator jobs + retry queue jobs.
• :media for rich media, media proxy
• :upload for uploaded media (if using a remote uploader and proxy_remote: true)

For each pool, the options are:

• max_connections - how much connections a pool can hold
• timeout - retention duration for connections