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Describe premium account in manual

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type of thing which would appear on a spam account. When other fediverse
users are judging a follow request from you they will want to know that
you are a real person and not a spammer or troll.</p>
<h3 id="premium-account">Premium Account</h3>
<p>There is an option to set your account as “premium”. This is intended
for an <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyFans">OnlyFans</a>-like
situation in which followers need to subscribe with some payment before
making a follow request to receive your posts. If this option is
selected then recent posts on your profile won’t be shown to
unauthorized viewers and the terminology of donations is switched to
subscriptions. You will need to set a link where followers can register,
and ask fans to specify their fediverse handle so that you can approve
it.</p>
<p>A difference with corporate content subscription services is that the
federated nature of instances means that once a post has been sent out
to fans/followers then you won’t have any control over what they
subsequently do with your content. So they could boost/announce posts to
non-subscribers, for example.</p>
<h3 id="other-fediverse-accounts">Other fediverse accounts</h3>
<p>If you have any other fediverse accounts on different instances then
you might want to add URLs for those. You can set the languages which
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<p>You can set your posts to expire after a number of days. If this
value is zero then the instance will keep your posts indefinitely.</p>
<h3 id="quitting-twitter">Quitting Twitter</h3>
<p>If you are coming to the fediverse as an exile from Twitter then you
may want to select the option to remove any Twitter posts from your
timeline. Sometimes people want to make a clean break from Twitter and
have no further involvement with it.</p>
<p>If you are coming to the fediverse as an exile from the website
formerly known as Twitter then you may want to select the option to
remove any Twitter posts from your timeline. Sometimes people want to
make a clean break from Twitter and have no further involvement with
it.</p>
<h3 id="alternative-contact-details">Alternative contact details</h3>
<p>You can set additional contact details, such as email, XMPP and
Matrix addresses. So if people want to contact you for private <a

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### Describe yourself
Add an appropriate description of youself, which doesn't resemble the type of thing which would appear on a spam account. When other fediverse users are judging a follow request from you they will want to know that you are a real person and not a spammer or troll.
### Premium Account
There is an option to set your account as "premium". This is intended for an [OnlyFans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyFans)-like situation in which followers need to subscribe with some payment before making a follow request to receive your posts. If this option is selected then recent posts on your profile won't be shown to unauthorized viewers and the terminology of donations is switched to subscriptions. You will need to set a link where followers can register, and ask fans to specify their fediverse handle so that you can approve it.
A difference with corporate content subscription services is that the federated nature of instances means that once a post has been sent out to fans/followers then you won't have any control over what they subsequently do with your content. So they could boost/announce posts to non-subscribers, for example.
### Other fediverse accounts
If you have any other fediverse accounts on different instances then you might want to add URLs for those. You can set the languages which you can read, as [two letter abbreviations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1). This helps to avoid having posts from other people within your timeline which you can't read.