Accounts and profiles

You can sign in to, or sign up for, an account on any server that speaks the Misskey or Mastodon API, even without an account here. GoToSocial, Akkoma and Misskey-family servers get profile support, and all your accounts can be refreshed at once.

Your preferences are backed up automatically once you sign up, and backing them up to the server and restoring them works better.

Following and follower lists can be sorted by server name, and your bookmarks can be searched.

Links on your profile are verified the way Mastodon does it, with rel="me".

A profile now shows, under the counters, a row of faces for the accounts you follow who also follow it, with the total beside them. It is Mastodon's “followers you know”, and the Mastodon route for it stops answering an empty list for every account.

When the server is connected to an OpenID Connect provider such as Keycloak, Authentik or Entra ID, the sign-in and sign-up dialogs offer a button for it, while the server's usual sign-up rules still apply. Existing accounts can link or unlink the provider in Settings > Security. Admins list providers in the new sso section of the configuration file, which can also let the provider manage roles.

As in Mastodon 4.6, a visitor without an account can leave an email address on a profile that offers it and receive that account's public posts by email, once the address is confirmed, with an unsubscribe link in every email. An account turns it on in Settings > Privacy, where it sees how many subscribers it has but never their addresses. Admins enable it per role, and apps can use POST /api/v1/accounts/:id/email_subscriptions.

Mastodon's profile redirect, beside the full move that was until now the only way to leave. The destination is announced on the profile and over federation, no follower is asked to move, nothing is copied, and unlike a move it can be taken back.

The redirect added on the server in 26.10.0 now has a screen in Settings → Manage account → Account Migration. Visitors to your profile see a notice pointing to the other account, while your followers, posts and follows stay where they are; you cannot post while the redirect is set, and unlike a migration it can be cancelled at any time.

When an account has a verified link, checked the same way as Mastodon's, the line under its handle in posts, follower lists, a post's tabs and user search shows it as a chip with a check. Catodon checks links from other servers itself rather than trusting them, and follower lists, search results and profile previews get more compact cards.

Settings → Profile has an optional date for the day you first joined the Fediverse, on any server, shown on your profile beside the date you joined this one, now labelled Member since. It is shared with other servers, which Catodon servers display, and admins can turn the feature off for their server.

Like Mastodon's Wrapstodon, every account that posted during the year gets a summary of it in December: cards with its posts by month, new followers, an archetype, its most used hashtags and apps, the accounts it replied to and reposted most, and its most popular public posts. Only the account can see it, earlier years stay reachable, and Mastodon apps read it through /api/v1/annual_reports.

/login now shows the sign-in form on every server, with the sign-up and other-server options, so visitors on servers whose landing page is a timeline or Explore can sign in on a phone, where the round button used to lead back to the same page. Signing in returns to the page the visitor came from, and the Landing page setting can now show this sign-in page at the site root.

As with ListenBrainz, a profile can show the track its owner is playing on Last.fm, or the last one played, in a line under the handle with its cover, title and artist. Enter your Last.fm username in Settings > Profile once the admin has set a Last.fm API key; your server asks Last.fm, not the visitor's browser. Apps read it through users/lastfm-now-playing.