Documentation

Self-hosting

• native.md: Linux hosting as a dedicated meowcord user, systemd restrictions, PostgreSQL, HTTPS, voice, backups and updates without Docker.
• databases.md: PostgreSQL and SQLite selection, migrations and backups.
• setup.md: native hosting entry point, Docker and development setup, and the first operator account.
• deploy.md: production with Docker Compose, backups, updates, reverse proxies and phones.
• external-services.md: every outside service the instance can contact and how each is turned on.
• stickers.md: provisioning the standard sticker artwork locally and editing sticker packs.
• verification.md: how an instance gets approved, how instance admins verify servers for global discovery, and who can remove or block what.
• registry.md: the federation registry Worker, its endpoints, how we review instances and discovery servers, and how an instance gets listed.
• change-url.md: moving an instance to a new address without losing its users, servers and DMs on other instances.

Features

• admin.md: the admin dashboard at /admin.
• activities.md: embedded activities, their hosting and API.
• announcements.md: encrypted announcements from the official account.
• automod.md: the slur auto-ban, word lists, join reasons, account approval, sign-in and signup limits, spam rules, raid detection, server AutoMod rules and the Automod admin page with its raid incidents.
• captcha.md: Cap challenge work for registration, sign-in and password reset, and refusing automated browsers.
• discovery.md: what Discover lists, how search and ranking work, the search index, categories and keywords.
• e2ee.md: end-to-end encrypted DMs, key backup and recovery.
• federation.md: Other instances in Discovery, chat with servers and people on other instances, the owner switch, the Federation admin page, its config keys and endpoints.
• link-embeds.md: link previews, video players and components media.
• homepage.md: the instance homepage at / and the settings that change it.
• identity-moderation.md: blocked words in usernames, display names and nicknames.
• invites.md: invite-only registration, member and staff instance invites, and invite trees.
• loading-screen.md: custom loading tips and loading animation.
• notifications.md: notification settings, mention counts, read states and Web Push.
• pride-badges.md: the pride flag catalog and picking flags at signup.
• profile-widgets.md: application profile widgets made in the developer portal.
• signup.md: Cap verification on registration.

Security

• upload-limits.md: attachment upload slots and per-user staging limits.
• upload-buffering.md: memory admission for CDN uploads.
• cloud-attachments.md: who can turn a cloud upload into a message attachment.
• public-url-fetching.md: the bounded, DNS-pinned helper for outbound requests.
• remote-media.md: message component media downloads.
• image-decoding.md: limits on images the server decodes itself.
• security.md: the October 2026 security review, its findings and fixes, and how to run the route audit, unit tests and attack probe again.

Development

• client-patches.md: how the Discord client is patched, built and checked.
• native-ui.md: shared native UI adapters for plugins.
• dialog-dismissal.md: how owned dialogs dismiss and how the developer portal handles late responses.
• parity.md: every Discord feature and its state here.
• federation.md: the plan for discovery and chat across instances. Phases 1 to 5 are built, including encrypted DMs and group DMs, and voice, video, Go Live and DM calls with DAVE across instances.
• federation-protocol.md: the version 1 contract between instances and the registry, and version 2 for chat between instances.
• work-backlog.md: the task queue.
• admin-api-coverage.md: which API operations the admin dashboard covers, with the machine-readable map.