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# Profile

## Verify your e-mail

The first thing you'll want to do is verify your e-mail address. Without verifying your e-mail address you will not be able to update your Profile.

Go to **My Profile** > **Edit Profile** > **Email** to verify your e-mail address.

Note: because your instance is sending out e-mails for the very first time, the e-mails have an increased chance of being marked as **spam**. Please check your spam folder if the e-mail does not arrive in your inbox.

## Two-factor authentication

As the admin user of your Pixelfed instance you enjoy extraordinary powers. To ensure these powers are safeguarded we highly recommend you enable two-factor authentication.

Go to **My Profile** > **Edit Profile** > **Security** to enable two-factor authentication.

# Admin

## Open Registration

You probably want to familiarize yourself with Pixelfed before you start accepting new users. With this in mind we recommend you temporarily disable new user registrations.

Go to **Admin** > **Settings** and *disable* **Open Registrations** for now. You can re-enable it later.