To add configuration to your config file, you can copy it from the base config. The latest version of it can be viewed [here](https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/blob/develop/config/config.exs). You can also use this file if you don't know how an option is supposed to be formatted.
-## :chat
+## :shout
-* `enabled` - Enables the backend chat. Defaults to `true`.
+* `enabled` - Enables the backend Shoutbox chat feature. Defaults to `true`.
+* `limit` - Shout character limit. Defaults to `5_000`
## :instance
* `name`: The instance’s name.
* `description`: The instance’s description, can be seen in nodeinfo and ``/api/v1/instance``.
* `limit`: Posts character limit (CW/Subject included in the counter).
* `description_limit`: The character limit for image descriptions.
-* `chat_limit`: Character limit of the instance chat messages.
* `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.
* `federating`: Enable federation with other instances.
* `federation_incoming_replies_max_depth`: Max. depth of reply-to activities fetching on incoming federation, to prevent out-of-memory situations while fetching very long threads. If set to `nil`, threads of any depth will be fetched. Lower this value if you experience out-of-memory crashes.
* `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.
+* `allow_relay`: Permits remote instances to subscribe to all public posts of your instance. This may increase the visibility of your instance.
* `public`: Makes the client API in authenticated mode-only except for user-profiles. Useful for disabling the Local Timeline and The Whole Known Network. Note that there is a dependent setting restricting or allowing unauthenticated access to specific resources, see `restrict_unauthenticated` for more details.
* `quarantined_instances`: List of ActivityPub instances where private (DMs, followers-only) activities will not be send.
* `allowed_post_formats`: MIME-type list of formats allowed to be posted (transformed into HTML).
* `Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.ObjectAgePolicy`: Rejects or delists posts based on their age when received. (See [`:mrf_object_age`](#mrf_object_age)).
* `Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.ActivityExpirationPolicy`: Sets a default expiration on all posts made by users of the local instance. Requires `Pleroma.Workers.PurgeExpiredActivity` to be enabled for processing the scheduled delections.
* `Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.ForceBotUnlistedPolicy`: Makes all bot posts to disappear from public timelines.
- * `Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.FollowBotPolicy`: Automatically follows newly discovered users from the specified bot account.
+ * `Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.FollowBotPolicy`: Automatically follows newly discovered users from the specified bot account. Local accounts, locked accounts, and users with "#nobot" in their bio are respected and excluded from being followed.
* `transparency`: Make the content of your Message Rewrite Facility settings public (via nodeinfo).
* `transparency_exclusions`: Exclude specific instance names from MRF transparency. The use of the exclusions feature will be disclosed in nodeinfo as a boolean value.
#### :mrf_follow_bot
-* `follower_nickname`: The name of the bot account to use for following newly discovered users.
+* `follower_nickname`: The name of the bot account to use for following newly discovered users. Using `followbot` or similar is strongly suggested.
### :activitypub
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