pleroma/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Note: strip_exif has been replaced by Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Mogrify.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", {"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
• 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 See: logger’s documentation and ex_syslogger’s documentation

:fe

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: Whenether to mask the logo
• 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

• threshold: Number of mentioned users after which the message gets discarded as spam

: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