Pixelfed · Rate Limits

Rate Limits

Name: Rate Limits
Creator: Pixelfed
Keywords: Fediverse, ActivityPub, Photo Sharing, Social Media, Open Source, Decentralized, Mastodon Compatible, Federation

Pixelfed implements Mastodon-compatible rate limiting. The defaults below reflect the upstream Mastodon reference values that Pixelfed inherits. Individual instance operators may tighten or relax these limits through server configuration. Rate-limit state is conveyed in response headers.

Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Pixelfed on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions.

Tagged areas include Fediverse, ActivityPub, Photo Sharing, Social Media, and Open Source.

5 Limits

FediverseActivityPubPhoto SharingSocial MediaOpen SourceDecentralizedMastodon CompatibleFederation

Limits

per-account (general)

per-ip (general)

per-account (media upload)

per-account (status deletion)

per-ip (account creation)