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Omicron

Using Omicron

Profiles

Your public page, the About tab, avatars, links, and the settings that control all of it.

Your profile lives at /@username and is the page remote servers link to when they show your byline.

Tabs

Tab Contents
Articles Your published posts, newest first
Lists Your public reading lists, if you have any
About Your longer self-description

The About tab

Alongside your short bio, the About tab carries a custom Markdown section you control entirely. It is a layout surface, not just a paragraph: badges, tables, code blocks, and ASCII art all render, and it uses a wider measure than the reading column so wide blocks fit.

Edit it in Settings → Profile. There is a live preview so you can check formatting before saving.

Avatar and identity

  • Avatar — uploaded and stored in the uploads volume, served from your domain.
  • Display name — what readers see.
  • Username — the immutable part of your fediverse handle, @username@your-domain.

Add social and web links with a platform and an optional label. They render as compact icon-only links in the profile header, with the labelled versions in the About tab.

Settings

Settings (/settings) is organised into sections:

Section What it controls
Profile Display name, bio, avatar, links, custom About section
Appearance Theme: light, dark, or system
Reading Default feed tab (For you, Local, Global) and feed language filtering
Privacy Follower approval and related visibility settings
Followed tags The tags feeding your personalised timeline
Muted and blocked Accounts you have silenced, local or remote
Account Email, password, and session management
Delete account Permanent removal

Privacy and follower approval

With approval enabled, inbound follows — local or federated — wait in /follow-requests until you approve or reject them. Nothing is delivered to an unapproved follower.

You can also remove an existing follower, which revokes their subscription on your side and stops future deliveries.

Deleting your account

Account deletion is permanent and removes your content from the instance. Copies already delivered to remote servers are handled by the Delete activities that federation sends; whether every remote instance honours them is outside your instance’s control.

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