Instance

Kitsune has a number of configurations that change how your instance works.

[instance]
allow-non-ascii-usernames = false
name = "Kitsune"
description = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnnPnr_0SU"
character-limit = 5000
registrations-open = true

allow-non-ascii-usernames

Kitsune’s database schema allows us to store usernames in a way that:

1. Ignores the case
2. Ignores the accent markers, etc.

That way we can store usernames in the database that aren’t strictly ASCII letters, meaning you could sign up using the username äumeträ.
And it would also automatically reserve any mutations of your username.

For example, getting the username äumeträ would automatically reserve these usernames, too:

• AUMETRA
• Äumetra
• áumetrà

and so on..

Note

This doesn’t allow you to sign up with emoji, such as 🎈. It will still require your name to be alphanumeric, just in any alphabet that unicode supports!

This is opt-in, since we aren’t quite sure yet how other fediverse software, such as Mastodon, handles non-ASCII usernames.

name

This changes the name of the instance displayed on the landing page and returned via instance metadata endpoints (such as Mastodon’s /api/v1/instance).

description

Tip

This field is interpreted as raw HTML

Similar to name, this setting adjusts the description on the landing page and the one returned via the metadata endpoints.

character-limit

This setting sets the character limit specific to your instance.

registrations-open

Determines whether your instance accepts new users or not. When set to false, the registration APIs will return a failure code.

webfinger-domain

This enables you to host your .well-known/webfinger resource on your main domain (i.e. example.com) and the web UI and inboxes on a subdomain (i.e. kitsune.example.com).
The advantage of this configuration is that your handle can be @me@example.com, while the account is hosted on fedi.example.com.

Example value

webfinger-domain = "example.com"