Account & security
Your account and subscription
Your InterlinedList account is a SubstratalApps account. SubstratalApps handles your sign-in, password, two-factor authentication and billing. InterlinedList is included with a SubstratalApps Standard subscription, and everyone gets the same features and the same fair-use limits.
You manage all of this from InterlinedList, in Settings → Account and Settings → Subscription.
Signing up
- Create an account with your email, a password of 12–128 characters, and a display name.
- Subscribe, monthly or yearly.
- Claim your handle, which becomes your address:
/@handle.
See Getting started.
Verifying your email
You can sign in and look around before you verify, but you need a verified email to post, reply, send direct messages, comment or publish. Follow the link in the email we send you. If it didn't arrive, open Verify email and choose Resend verification email.
Settings → Account shows whether your email is verified.
Signing in
Sign in with your email and password. If you've turned on two-factor authentication, you then enter a code from your authenticator app, or choose Use a recovery code instead.
Signing in with GitHub, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn or X isn't available. Those connections are only for cross-posting and lists.
Changing your email or password
- Change email: enter the new address. You confirm it from that inbox.
- Change password: enter your current password and a new one of 12–128 characters.
Some changes ask for your password again before they go through.
Forgotten password
Choose Forgot your password? on the sign-in page and enter your email. If an account exists for it, a reset link is on its way. Follow the link to set a new password, then sign in with it.
Two-factor authentication
- In Settings → Account, choose Set up authenticator app.
- Scan the QR code with your authenticator app, enter the code it shows, and choose Confirm.
- Save the 10 recovery codes. Each works once, and they're only shown once.
To turn it off, enter a code from your app (or a recovery code) and choose Turn off.
Sessions and devices
Sessions lists where you're signed in. Choose Sign out next to one, or Sign out all others.
Accounts on this device lets you stay signed in to up to 5 accounts and Switch between them. Add account signs in another one.
Your subscription
Settings → Subscription shows your status, plan and renewal or end date. Manage billing opens the SubstratalApps billing portal, where you change your payment details or cancel.
If your subscription ends:
- You're signed out.
- Scheduled messages go back to your drafts, and cross-posting stops.
- Your public content stays visible, marked Inactive.
Subscribe again and everything works as before.
Account standing
Most accounts are simply active. If moderators act on your account, it can be restricted (read-only), suspended or banned. You're told in the app and by email, and a banner explains what's happened. See Reporting & safety.
Deleting your account
At the bottom of Settings → Account, type your handle to confirm and choose Delete account. You'll be asked for your password.
- Your profile is removed straight away.
- It's permanently deleted after 7 days. Until then, choose Cancel deletion to keep it.
- Your content is purged within 30 days.
Deleting your account doesn't cancel your subscription. Cancel it with Manage billing in Settings → Subscription. To keep a copy of your content first, see Export your data.
Staying secure
- Use a strong password that you don't use anywhere else.
- Turn on two-factor authentication.
- Check Sessions now and then, and sign out of devices you don't recognize.