diff --git a/components/Register.vue b/components/Register.vue
index 19879340..82303e88 100644
--- a/components/Register.vue
+++ b/components/Register.vue
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
     p(v-html="$t('register.description')")
     div(v-loading='loading')
 
-      el-input.mb-2(v-model='user.username' type='text' name='username'
-        :placeholder='$t("common.username")' prefix-icon='el-icon-user')
-
       el-input.mb-2(ref='email' v-model='user.email' type='email' required
         :placeholder='$t("common.email")' autocomplete='email'
         prefix-icon='el-icon-message' name='email')
diff --git a/components/admin/Federation.vue b/components/admin/Federation.vue
index 87b87659..d3d9c45d 100644
--- a/components/admin/Federation.vue
+++ b/components/admin/Federation.vue
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <template lang="pug">
   div
-    el-form(inline label-width='200px')
+    el-form(label-width='200px')
       el-form-item(:label="$t('admin.enable_federation')")
         el-switch(v-model='enable_federation')
         el-popover(:content="$t('admin.enable_federation_help')" trigger='hover')
diff --git a/components/admin/Users.vue b/components/admin/Users.vue
index db2f24d6..4bcf69d1 100644
--- a/components/admin/Users.vue
+++ b/components/admin/Users.vue
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ div
       template(slot='title')
         el-button(mini size='mini')  <v-icon name='plus'/> {{$t('common.new_user')}}
       el-form(inline)
-        el-form-item(:label="$t('common.username')")
-          el-input(v-model='new_user.username')
         el-form-item(:label="$t('common.email')")
           el-input(v-model='new_user.email')
         el-form-item(:label="$t('common.admin')")
@@ -17,9 +15,6 @@ div
 
   //- USERS LIST
   el-table(:data='paginatedUsers' small)
-    el-table-column(label='Username' width='250')
-      template(slot-scope='data')
-        span(slot='reference') {{data.row.username}}
     el-table-column(label='Email' width='250')
       template(slot-scope='data')
         el-popover(trigger='hover' :content='data.row.description' width='400')
@@ -39,7 +34,6 @@ div
               @click='delete_user(data.row)') {{$t('admin.delete_user')}}
         div(v-else)
           span {{$t('common.me')}}
-        el-tag(v-if='settings.fedi_admin===data.row.username' size='mini' type='primary') instance account
   client-only
     el-pagination(:page-size='perPage' :currentPage.sync='userPage' :total='users_.length')
 
diff --git a/docs/_config.yml b/docs/_config.yml
index a2ce2e05..4e8b1dd3 100644
--- a/docs/_config.yml
+++ b/docs/_config.yml
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 # You can create any custom variable you would like, and they will be accessible
 # in the templates via {{ site.myvariable }}.
 title: Gancio
-email: gancio@cisti.org
+email: lesion@autistici.org
 description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-        A shared agenda for local communities
+        A shared agenda for local communities with AP support
 baseurl: "/" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
 url: "https://gancio.org" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
 #twitter_username: jekyllrb
diff --git a/locales/email/en.json b/locales/email/en.json
index adf92018..8cc82951 100644
--- a/locales/email/en.json
+++ b/locales/email/en.json
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
   },
   "admin_register": {
     "subject": "New registration",
-    "content": "{{user.username}} has requested registration on {{config.title}}: <br/><pre>{{user.description}}</pre><br/> Confirm it <a href='{{config.baseurl}}/admin'>here</a>."
+    "content": "{{user.email}} has requested registration on {{config.title}}: <br/><pre>{{user.description}}</pre><br/> Confirm it <a href='{{config.baseurl}}/admin'>here</a>."
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/locales/email/it.json b/locales/email/it.json
index 938a0cc0..eb146542 100644
--- a/locales/email/it.json
+++ b/locales/email/it.json
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
   },
   "admin_register":{
     "subject": "Nuova registrazione",
-    "content": "{{user.username}} si è registrato/a a {{config.title}} scrivendo:<br/><pre>{{user.description}}</pre><br/> Puoi confermarlo <a href='{{config.baseurl}}/admin'>qui</a>."
+    "content": "{{user.email}} si è registrato/a a {{config.title}} scrivendo:<br/><pre>{{user.description}}</pre><br/> Puoi confermarlo <a href='{{config.baseurl}}/admin'>qui</a>."
   }
 }
diff --git a/locales/es.json b/locales/es.json
index 0acfbdda..f0a5511d 100644
--- a/locales/es.json
+++ b/locales/es.json
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
     "disable": "Deshabilita",
     "me": "Sos tú",
     "password_updated": "Contraseña actualizada!",
-    "username": "Nickname",
     "comments": "ningún comentario|un comentario|{n} comentarios"
   },
   "login": {
diff --git a/locales/it.json b/locales/it.json
index 16a50bbd..243511cb 100644
--- a/locales/it.json
+++ b/locales/it.json
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
     "disable": "Disabilita",
     "me": "Sei te",
     "password_updated": "Password modificata!",
-    "username": "Nomignolo",
     "activate_user": "Confermato",
     "displayname": "Nome mostrato",
     "federation": "Federazione",
diff --git a/pages/settings.vue b/pages/settings.vue
index 88a35429..9799dd53 100644
--- a/pages/settings.vue
+++ b/pages/settings.vue
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ export default {
   name: 'Settings',
   data () {
     return {
-      username_editable: false,
       password: '',
       user: { }
     }
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ export default {
   },
   async asyncData ({ $axios, params }) {
     const user = await $axios.$get('/auth/user')
-    return { user, username_editable: user.username.length === 0 }
+    return { user }
   },
   computed: {
     ...mapState(['settings']),
diff --git a/server/api/controller/settings.js b/server/api/controller/settings.js
index a3e8bedb..31a24d9a 100644
--- a/server/api/controller/settings.js
+++ b/server/api/controller/settings.js
@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ const path = require('path')
 const fs = require('fs')
 const pkg = require('../../../package.json')
 const debug = require('debug')('settings')
+const crypto = require('crypto')
+const util = require('util')
+const generateKeyPair = util.promisify(crypto.generateKeyPair)
+
+const defaultSettings = {
+  instance_timezone: 'Europe/Rome',
+  instance_name: config.title.toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, ''),
+  allow_registration: true,
+  allow_anon_event: true,
+  allow_recurrent_event: false,
+  recurrent_event_visible: false,
+  enable_federation: true,
+  enable_resources: false,
+  hide_boosts: true
+}
+
 /**
  * Settings controller: store instance settings
  * Current supported settings:
@@ -20,13 +36,14 @@ const settingsController = {
   user_locale: {},
   secretSettings: {},
 
-  async initialize () {
+  async load () {
     if (!settingsController.settings.initialized) {
       // initialize instance settings from db
       // note that this is done only once when the server starts
       // and not for each request (it's a kind of cache)!
       const settings = await Setting.findAll()
       settingsController.settings.initialized = true
+      settingsController.settings = defaultSettings
       settings.forEach(s => {
         if (s.is_secret) {
           settingsController.secretSettings[s.key] = s.value
@@ -35,16 +52,26 @@ const settingsController = {
         }
       })
 
-      // set fediverse admin actor
-      const fedi_admin = await User.findOne({ where: { email: config.admin_email } })
-      if (fedi_admin) {
-        settingsController.settings.fedi_admin = fedi_admin.username
-      } else {
-        debug('Federation disabled! An admin with %s as email cannot be found', config.admin_email)
-        settingsController.settings.enable_federation = false
+      // add pub/priv instance key if needed
+      if (!settingsController.settings.publicKey) {
+        debug('Instance priv/pub key not found')
+        const { publicKey, privateKey } = await generateKeyPair('rsa', {
+          modulusLength: 4096,
+          publicKeyEncoding: {
+            type: 'spki',
+            format: 'pem'
+          },
+          privateKeyEncoding: {
+            type: 'pkcs8',
+            format: 'pem'
+          }
+        })
+
+        await settingsController.set('publicKey', publicKey)
+        await settingsController.set('privateKey', privateKey, true)
       }
 
-      // // initialize user_locale
+      // initialize user_locale
       if (config.user_locale && fs.existsSync(path.resolve(config.user_locale))) {
         const user_locale = fs.readdirSync(path.resolve(config.user_locale))
         user_locale.forEach(async f => {
@@ -97,5 +124,5 @@ const settingsController = {
   }
 }
 
-settingsController.initialize()
+// settingsController.initialize()
 module.exports = settingsController
diff --git a/server/api/controller/user.js b/server/api/controller/user.js
index 4f5111d0..05bbbfce 100644
--- a/server/api/controller/user.js
+++ b/server/api/controller/user.js
@@ -6,19 +6,14 @@ const { Op } = require('sequelize')
 const jsonwebtoken = require('jsonwebtoken')
 const config = require('config')
 const mail = require('../mail')
-const { user: User, event: Event, tag: Tag, place: Place, fed_users: FedUsers } = require('../models')
+const { user: User, event: Event, tag: Tag, place: Place } = require('../models')
 const settingsController = require('./settings')
 const debug = require('debug')('user:controller')
 
 const userController = {
   async login (req, res) {
     // find the user
-    const user = await User.findOne({ where: {
-      [Op.or]: [
-        { email: req.body.email },
-        { username: req.body.email }
-      ]
-    } })
+    const user = await User.findOne({ where: { email: req.body.email } })
     if (!user) {
       res.status(403).json({ success: false, message: 'auth.fail' })
     } else if (user) {
@@ -206,7 +201,7 @@ const userController = {
 
   async current (req, res) {
     if (!req.user) { return res.status(400).send('Not logged') }
-    const user = await User.scope('withoutPassword').findByPk(req.user.id, { include: { model: FedUsers, as: 'followers' } })
+    const user = await User.scope('withoutPassword').findByPk(req.user.id)
     res.json(user)
   },
 
@@ -227,9 +222,6 @@ const userController = {
       return res.status(400).json({ succes: false, message: 'Not allowed' })
     }
 
-    // ensure username to not change if not empty
-    req.body.username = user.username ? user.username : req.body.username
-
     if (!req.body.password) { delete req.body.password }
 
     if (!user.is_active && req.body.is_active && user.recover_code) {
diff --git a/server/api/models/user.js b/server/api/models/user.js
index 59b91d51..f0f70259 100644
--- a/server/api/models/user.js
+++ b/server/api/models/user.js
@@ -1,20 +1,8 @@
-'use strict'
 const bcrypt = require('bcryptjs')
-const crypto = require('crypto')
-const util = require('util')
 const debug = require('debug')('model:user')
 
-const generateKeyPair = util.promisify(crypto.generateKeyPair)
-
 module.exports = (sequelize, DataTypes) => {
-  const user = sequelize.define('user', {
-    username: {
-      type: DataTypes.STRING,
-      unique: { msg: 'error.nick_taken' },
-      index: true,
-      allowNull: false
-    },
-    display_name: DataTypes.STRING,
+  const User = sequelize.define('user', {
     settings: {
       type: DataTypes.JSON,
       defaultValue: '{}'
@@ -29,53 +17,33 @@ module.exports = (sequelize, DataTypes) => {
     password: DataTypes.STRING,
     recover_code: DataTypes.STRING,
     is_admin: DataTypes.BOOLEAN,
-    is_active: DataTypes.BOOLEAN,
-    rsa: DataTypes.JSON
+    is_active: DataTypes.BOOLEAN
   }, {
     scopes: {
       withoutPassword: {
-        attributes: { exclude: ['password', 'recover_code', 'rsa'] }
+        attributes: { exclude: ['password', 'recover_code'] }
       }
     }
   })
 
-  user.associate = function (models) {
-    // associations can be defined here
-    user.hasMany(models.event)
-    user.belongsToMany(models.fed_users, { through: 'user_followers', as: 'followers' })
+  User.associate = function (models) {
+    User.hasMany(models.event)
   }
 
-  user.prototype.comparePassword = async function (pwd) {
+  User.prototype.comparePassword = async function (pwd) {
     if (!this.password) { return false }
     const ret = await bcrypt.compare(pwd, this.password)
     return ret
   }
 
-  user.beforeSave(async (user, options) => {
+  User.beforeSave(async (user, options) => {
     if (user.changed('password')) {
-      debug('Password for %s modified', user.username)
+      debug('Password for %s modified', user.email)
       const salt = await bcrypt.genSalt(10)
       const hash = await bcrypt.hash(user.password, salt)
       user.password = hash
     }
   })
 
-  user.beforeCreate(async (user, options) => {
-    debug('Create a new user => %s', user.username)
-    // generate rsa keys
-    const rsa = await generateKeyPair('rsa', {
-      modulusLength: 4096,
-      publicKeyEncoding: {
-        type: 'spki',
-        format: 'pem'
-      },
-      privateKeyEncoding: {
-        type: 'pkcs8',
-        format: 'pem'
-      }
-    })
-    user.rsa = rsa
-  })
-
-  return user
+  return User
 }
diff --git a/server/federation/follows.js b/server/federation/follows.js
index d7e04fc9..50f94145 100644
--- a/server/federation/follows.js
+++ b/server/federation/follows.js
@@ -10,26 +10,23 @@ module.exports = {
     const body = req.body
     if (typeof body.object !== 'string') { return }
     const username = body.object.replace(`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/`, '')
-    const user = await User.findOne({ where: { username }, include: { model: FedUsers, as: 'followers' } })
-    if (!user) { return res.status(404).send('User not found') }
+    if (username !== req.settings.instance_name) { return res.status(404).send('User not found') }
 
     // check for duplicate
-    if (!user.followers.includes(body.actor)) {
-      await user.addFollowers([req.fedi_user.ap_id])
-      // await user.update({ followers: [...user.followers, body.actor] })
-      debug('%s followed by %s (%d)', username, body.actor, user.followers.length + 1)
-    } else {
-      debug('duplicate %s followed by %s', username, body.actor)
-    }
+    // if (!user.followers.includes(body.actor)) {
+    // await user.addFollowers([req.fedi_user.id])
+    // await user.update({ followers: [...user.followers, body.actor] })
+    await req.fedi_user.update({ follower: true })
+    debug('Followed by %s', body.actor)
     const guid = crypto.randomBytes(16).toString('hex')
     const message = {
       '@context': 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
       'id': `${config.baseurl}/federation/${guid}`,
       'type': 'Accept',
-      'actor': `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}`,
+      'actor': `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${username}`,
       'object': body
     }
-    Helpers.signAndSend(message, user, req.fedi_user.object.inbox)
+    Helpers.signAndSend(message, req.fedi_user.object.inbox)
     res.sendStatus(200)
   },
 
@@ -37,16 +34,14 @@ module.exports = {
   async unfollow (req, res) {
     const body = req.body
     const username = body.object.object.replace(`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/`, '')
-    const user = await User.findOne({ where: { username }, include: { model: FedUsers, as: 'followers' } })
-    if (!user) { return res.status(404).send('User not found') }
+    if (username !== req.settings.instance_name) { return res.status(404).send('User not found') }
 
     if (body.actor !== body.object.actor || body.actor !== req.fedi_user.ap_id) {
       debug('Unfollow an user created by a different actor !?!?')
       return res.status(400).send('Bad things')
     }
-
-    if (req.fedi_user) { await user.removeFollowers(req.fedi_user.ap_id) }
-    debug('%s unfollowed by %s', username, body.actor)
+    await req.fedi_user.update({ follower: false })
+    debug('Unfollowed by %s', body.actor)
     res.sendStatus(200)
   }
 }
diff --git a/server/federation/helpers.js b/server/federation/helpers.js
index c0c7c9d6..0bf50798 100644
--- a/server/federation/helpers.js
+++ b/server/federation/helpers.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const crypto = require('crypto')
 const config = require('config')
 const httpSignature = require('http-signature')
 const debug = require('debug')('federation:helpers')
-const { user: User, fed_users: FedUsers, instances: Instances } = require('../api/models')
+const { APUser, Instance } = require('../api/models')
 const url = require('url')
 const settingsController = require('../api/controller/settings')
 
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ const Helpers = {
     next()
   },
 
-  async signAndSend (message, user, inbox) {
+  async signAndSend (message, inbox) {
     // get the URI of the actor object and append 'inbox' to it
     const inboxUrl = new url.URL(inbox)
-    const privkey = user.rsa.privateKey
+    const privkey = settingsController.secretSettings.privateKey
     const signer = crypto.createSign('sha256')
     const d = new Date()
     const stringToSign = `(request-target): post ${inboxUrl.pathname}\nhost: ${inboxUrl.hostname}\ndate: ${d.toUTCString()}`
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ const Helpers = {
     signer.end()
     const signature = signer.sign(privkey)
     const signature_b64 = signature.toString('base64')
-    const header = `keyId="${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}",headers="(request-target) host date",signature="${signature_b64}"`
+    const header = `keyId="${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${settingsController.settings.instance_name}",headers="(request-target) host date",signature="${signature_b64}"`
     const ret = await fetch(inbox, {
       headers: {
         'Host': inboxUrl.hostname,
@@ -49,82 +49,38 @@ const Helpers = {
     debug('sign %s => %s', ret.status, await ret.text())
   },
 
-  async sendEvent (event, user, type = 'Create') {
+  async sendEvent (event, type = 'Create') {
     if (!settingsController.settings.enable_federation) {
       debug('event not send, federation disabled')
       return
     }
 
-    // event is sent by user that published it and by the admin instance
-    // collect followers from admin and user
-    const instanceAdmin = await User.findOne({ where: { email: config.admin_email }, include: { model: FedUsers, as: 'followers' } })
-    if (!instanceAdmin || !instanceAdmin.username) {
-      debug('Instance admin not found (there is no user with email => %s)', config.admin_email)
-      return
-    }
-
+    const followers = await APUser.findAll({ where: { follow: true } })
     const recipients = {}
-    instanceAdmin.followers.forEach(follower => {
+    followers.forEach(follower => {
       const sharedInbox = follower.object.endpoints.sharedInbox
       if (!recipients[sharedInbox]) { recipients[sharedInbox] = [] }
       recipients[sharedInbox].push(follower.ap_id)
     })
 
     for (const sharedInbox in recipients) {
-      debug('Notify %s with event %s (from admin %s) cc => %d', sharedInbox, event.title, instanceAdmin.username, recipients[sharedInbox].length)
+      debug('Notify %s with event %s cc => %d', sharedInbox, event.title , recipients[sharedInbox].length)
       const body = {
         id: `${config.baseurl}/federation/m/${event.id}#create`,
         type,
         to: ['https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public'],
-        cc: [`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${instanceAdmin.username}/followers`, ...recipients[sharedInbox]],
+        cc: [`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${settingsController.settings.instance_name}/followers`, ...recipients[sharedInbox]],
         // cc: recipients[sharedInbox],
-        actor: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${instanceAdmin.username}`,
-        // object: event.toAP(instanceAdmin.username, [`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${instanceAdmin.username}/followers`, ...recipients[sharedInbox]])
-        object: event.toAP(instanceAdmin.username, recipients[sharedInbox])
+        actor: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${settingsController.settings.instance_name}`,
+        // object: event.toNoteAP(instanceAdmin.username, [`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${instanceAdmin.username}/followers`, ...recipients[sharedInbox]])
+        object: event.toNoteAP(settingsController.settings.instance_name, recipients[sharedInbox])
       }
       body['@context'] = [
         'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
         'https://w3id.org/security/v1',
         { Hashtag: 'as:Hashtag' } ]
-      Helpers.signAndSend(body, instanceAdmin, sharedInbox)
+      Helpers.signAndSend(body, sharedInbox)
     }
-
-    // TODO
-    // in case the event is published by the Admin itself do not add user
-    // if (instanceAdmin.id === user.id) {
-    //   debug('Event published by instance Admin')
-    //   return
-    // }
-    // if (!user.settings.enable_federation || !user.username) {
-    //   debug('Federation disabled for user %d (%s)', user.id, user.username)
-    //   return
-    // }
-
-    // debug('Sending to user followers => ', user.username)
-    // user = await User.findByPk(user.id, { include: { model: FedUsers, as: 'followers' } })
-    // debug('Sending to user followers => ', user.followers.length)
-    // recipients = {}
-    // user.followers.forEach(follower => {
-    //   const sharedInbox = follower.object.endpoints.sharedInbox
-    //   if (!recipients[sharedInbox]) { recipients[sharedInbox] = [] }
-    //   recipients[sharedInbox].push(follower.ap_id)
-    // })
-
-    // for (const sharedInbox in recipients) {
-    //   debug('Notify %s with event %s (from user %s) cc => %d', sharedInbox, event.title, user.username, recipients[sharedInbox].length)
-    //   const body = {
-    //     id: `${config.baseurl}/federation/m/${event.id}#create`,
-    //     type: 'Create',
-    //     to: ['https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public'],
-    //     cc: [`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}/followers`, ...recipients[sharedInbox]],
-    //     // cc: recipients[sharedInbox],
-    //     actor: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}`,
-    //     // object: event.toAP(user.username, [`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}/followers`, ...recipients[sharedInbox]])
-    //     object: event.toAP(user.username, recipients[sharedInbox])
-    //   }
-    //   body['@context'] = 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams'
-    //   Helpers.signAndSend(body, user, sharedInbox)
-    // }
   },
 
   async getActor (URL, instance, force = false) {
@@ -132,7 +88,7 @@ const Helpers = {
 
     // try with cache first
     if (!force) {
-      fedi_user = await FedUsers.findByPk(URL, { include: Instances })
+      fedi_user = await APUser.findByPk(URL, { include: Instance })
       if (fedi_user) {
         if (!fedi_user.instances) {
           fedi_user.setInstance(instance)
@@ -151,7 +107,7 @@ const Helpers = {
       })
 
     if (fedi_user) {
-      fedi_user = await FedUsers.create({ ap_id: URL, object: fedi_user })
+      fedi_user = await APUser.create({ ap_id: URL, object: fedi_user })
     }
     return fedi_user
   },
@@ -163,7 +119,7 @@ const Helpers = {
     debug('getInstance %s', domain)
     let instance
     if (!force) {
-      instance = await Instances.findByPk(domain)
+      instance = await Instance.findByPk(domain)
       if (instance) { return instance }
     }
 
@@ -174,7 +130,7 @@ const Helpers = {
           stats: instance.stats,
           thumbnail: instance.thumbnail
         }
-        return Instances.create({ name: instance.title, domain, data, blocked: false })
+        return Instance.create({ name: instance.title, domain, data, blocked: false })
       })
       .catch(e => {
         debug(e)
diff --git a/server/federation/index.js b/server/federation/index.js
index e736c175..1004113b 100644
--- a/server/federation/index.js
+++ b/server/federation/index.js
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ router.get('/m/:event_id', async (req, res) => {
 
   const event = await Event.findByPk(req.params.event_id, { include: [ User, Tag, Place ] })
   if (!event) { return res.status(404).send('Not found') }
-  return res.json(event.toAP(event.user.username))
+  return res.json(event.toNoteAP(event.user.username))
 })
 
 // get any message coming from federation
diff --git a/server/federation/users.js b/server/federation/users.js
index 25c0e973..0c6a9a8e 100644
--- a/server/federation/users.js
+++ b/server/federation/users.js
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ module.exports = {
       id: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}`,
       type: 'Person',
       summary: config.description,
-      name: user.display_name || user.username,
-      preferredUsername: user.username,
+      name,
+      preferredUsername: name,
       inbox: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/inbox`,
       // outbox: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/outbox`,
       // followers: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/followers`,
@@ -42,19 +42,23 @@ module.exports = {
       publicKey: {
         id: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}#main-key`,
         owner: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}`,
-        publicKeyPem: get(user, 'rsa.publicKey', '')
+        publicKeyPem: req.settings.publicKey
       }
     }
     res.type('application/activity+json; charset=utf-8')
     res.json(ret)
   },
-  async followers (req, res) {
+
+  async followers(req, res) {
+    // TODO
     const name = req.params.name
     const page = req.query.page
     debug('Retrieve %s followers', name)
     if (!name) { return res.status(400).send('Bad request.') }
-    const user = await User.findOne({ where: { username: name }, include: [{ model: FedUsers, as: 'followers' }] })
-    if (!user) { return res.status(404).send(`No record found for ${name}`) }
+    if (name !== req.settings.instance_name) {
+      return res.status(404).send(`No record found for ${name}`)
+    }
+    const followers = await APUser.findAll({ where: { follower: true } })
 
     res.type('application/activity+json; charset=utf-8')
 
@@ -64,19 +68,19 @@ module.exports = {
         '@context': 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
         id: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/followers`,
         type: 'OrderedCollection',
-        totalItems: user.followers.length,
+        totalItems: followers.length,
         first: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/followers?page=true`,
         last: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/followers?page=true`,
-        orderedItems: user.followers.map(f => f.ap_id)
+        orderedItems: followers.map(f => f.ap_id)
       })
     }
     return res.json({
       '@context': 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
       id: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/followers?page=${page}`,
       type: 'OrderedCollectionPage',
-      totalItems: user.followers.length,
+      totalItems: followers.length,
       partOf: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/followers`,
-      orderedItems: user.followers.map(f => f.ap_id)
+      orderedItems: followers.map(f => f.ap_id)
     })
   },
 
@@ -115,7 +119,7 @@ module.exports = {
       totalItems: user.events.length,
       partOf: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${name}/outbox`,
       orderedItems: user.events.map(e => ({
-        ...e.toAP(user.username), actor: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}`}))
+        ...e.toNoteAP(user.username), actor: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}` }))
       //   user.events.map(e => ({
       //   id: `${config.baseurl}/federation/m/${e.id}#create`,
       //   type: 'Create',
@@ -123,7 +127,7 @@ module.exports = {
       //   cc: [`${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}/followers`],
       //   published: e.createdAt,
       //   actor: `${config.baseurl}/federation/u/${user.username}`,
-      //   object: e.toAP(user.username)
+      //   object: e.toNoteAP(user.username)
       // }))
     })
   }
diff --git a/server/federation/webfinger.js b/server/federation/webfinger.js
index 03a1d100..e32cd94d 100644
--- a/server/federation/webfinger.js
+++ b/server/federation/webfinger.js
@@ -15,23 +15,20 @@ router.use((req, res, next) => {
   res.status(404).send('Federation disabled')
 })
 
-router.get('/webfinger', async (req, res) => {
+router.get('/webfinger', (req, res) => {
   if (!req.query || !req.query.resource || !req.query.resource.includes('acct:')) {
     debug('Bad webfinger request => %s', req.query && req.query.resource)
     return res.status(400).send('Bad request. Please make sure "acct:USER@DOMAIN" is what you are sending as the "resource" query parameter.')
   }
 
   const resource = req.query.resource
-  const domain = url.parse(req.settings.baseurl).host
+  const domain = (new url.URL(req.settings.baseurl)).host
   const [, name, req_domain] = resource.match(/acct:(.*)@(.*)/)
-
   if (domain !== req_domain) {
     debug('Bad webfinger request, requested domain "%s" instead of "%s"', req_domain, domain)
     return res.status(400).send('Bad request. Please make sure "acct:USER@DOMAIN" is what you are sending as the "resource" query parameter.')
   }
-
-  const user = await User.findOne({ where: { username: name } })
-  if (!user) {
+  if (name !== req.settings.instance_name) {
     debug('User not found: %s', name)
     return res.status(404).send(`No record found for ${name}`)
   }
diff --git a/server/firstrun.js b/server/firstrun.js
index e1f059a0..e3a6284c 100644
--- a/server/firstrun.js
+++ b/server/firstrun.js
@@ -39,24 +39,10 @@ module.exports = {
     await db.user.create({
       email: admin.email,
       password: admin.password,
-      username: config.title.toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, ''),
-      display_name: config.title,
       is_admin: true,
       is_active: true
     })
 
-    // set default settings
-    consola.info('Set default settings')
-    const settings = require('./api/controller/settings')
-    await settings.set('allow_registration', true)
-    await settings.set('allow_anon_event', true)
-    await settings.set('allow_recurrent_event', false)
-    await settings.set('recurrent_event_visible', true)
-    await settings.set('enable_federation', false)
-    await settings.set('enable_comments', false)
-    await settings.set('disable_gamification', true)
-    await settings.set('instance_timezone', 'Europe/Rome')
-
     // add default notification
     consola.info('Add default notification')
 
diff --git a/server/helpers.js b/server/helpers.js
index fa79995d..82c57d54 100644
--- a/server/helpers.js
+++ b/server/helpers.js
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 const settingsController = require('./api/controller/settings')
 const { user: User } = require('./api/models')
-const { Op } = require('sequelize')
 const acceptLanguage = require('accept-language')
 const expressJwt = require('express-jwt')
 const moment = require('moment-timezone')
@@ -22,7 +21,8 @@ const jwt = expressJwt({
 })
 
 module.exports = {
-  initMiddleware (req, res, next) {
+  async initMiddleware (req, res, next) {
+    await settingsController.load()
     // initialize settings
     req.settings = settingsController.settings
     req.secretSettings = settingsController.secretSettings
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ module.exports = {
     jwt(req, res, async () => {
       if (!req.user) { return next() }
       req.user = await User.findOne({
-        where: { id: { [Op.eq]: req.user.id }, is_active: true } })
+        where: { id: req.user.id, is_active: true } })
       next()
     })
   }
diff --git a/server/notifier.js b/server/notifier.js
index a89ffc7a..ed3c21eb 100644
--- a/server/notifier.js
+++ b/server/notifier.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const debug = require('debug')('notifier')
 const fediverseHelpers = require('./federation/helpers')
 
 const { event: Event, notification: Notification, event_notification: EventNotification,
-  user: User, place: Place, tag: Tag, fed_users: FedUsers } = require('./api/models')
+  user: User, place: Place, tag: Tag, ap_user: APUser } = require('./api/models')
 const eventController = require('./api/controller/event')
 
 const notifier = {
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ const notifier = {
         promises.push(p)
         break
       case 'ap':
-        p = fediverseHelpers.sendEvent(event, event.user, notification.action)
+        p = fediverseHelpers.sendEvent(event, notification.action)
         promises.push(p)
     }
     return Promise.all(promises)
   },
   async notifyEvent (action, eventId) {
     const event = await Event.findByPk(eventId, {
-      include: [ Tag, Place, Notification, { model: User, include: { model: FedUsers, as: 'followers' } } ]
+      include: [ Tag, Place, Notification, { model: User, include: { model: APUser, as: 'followers' } } ]
     })
 
     debug('%s -> %s', action, event.title)
diff --git a/store/index.js b/store/index.js
index c1ad7210..a8a50d2b 100644
--- a/store/index.js
+++ b/store/index.js
@@ -10,13 +10,14 @@ export const state = () => ({
   places: [],
   settings: {
     instance_timezone: 'Europe/Rome',
+    instance_name: '',
     allow_registration: true,
     allow_anon_event: true,
     allow_recurrent_event: true,
     recurrent_event_visible: false,
     enable_federation: false,
-    enable_comments: false,
-    disable_gamification: true
+    enable_resources: false,
+    hide_boosts: true
   },
   in_past: false,
   filters: {
diff --git a/views/feed/rss.pug b/views/feed/rss.pug
index b758af09..472d6686 100644
--- a/views/feed/rss.pug
+++ b/views/feed/rss.pug
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ rss(version='2.0' xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")
                         | <img src="#{settings.baseurl}/media/#{event.image_path}"/>
                     | <pre>!{event.description}</pre>
                     | ]]>
-                pubDate= new Date(event.createdAt).toUTCString()
+                pubDate= new Date(event.updatedAt).toUTCString()
                 guid(isPermaLink='false') #{settings.baseurl}/event/#{event.id}
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 308950fa..4f272e8f 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1642,6 +1642,11 @@ array-includes@^3.0.3:
     define-properties "^1.1.2"
     es-abstract "^1.7.0"
 
+array-uniq@^1.0.2:
+  version "1.0.3"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/array-uniq/-/array-uniq-1.0.3.tgz#af6ac877a25cc7f74e058894753858dfdb24fdb6"
+  integrity sha1-r2rId6Jcx/dOBYiUdThY39sk/bY=
+
 array-unique@^0.3.2:
   version "0.3.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/array-unique/-/array-unique-0.3.2.tgz#a894b75d4bc4f6cd679ef3244a9fd8f46ae2d428"
@@ -5120,7 +5125,7 @@ html-webpack-plugin@^3.2.0:
     toposort "^1.0.0"
     util.promisify "1.0.0"
 
-htmlparser2@^3.10.1, htmlparser2@^3.3.0, htmlparser2@^3.9.1, htmlparser2@^3.9.2:
+htmlparser2@^3.10.0, htmlparser2@^3.10.1, htmlparser2@^3.3.0, htmlparser2@^3.9.1, htmlparser2@^3.9.2:
   version "3.10.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/htmlparser2/-/htmlparser2-3.10.1.tgz#bd679dc3f59897b6a34bb10749c855bb53a9392f"
   integrity sha512-IgieNijUMbkDovyoKObU1DUhm1iwNYE/fuifEoEHfd1oZKZDaONBSkal7Y01shxsM49R4XaMdGez3WnF9UfiCQ==
@@ -6188,6 +6193,11 @@ lodash.camelcase@^4.1.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.camelcase/-/lodash.camelcase-4.3.0.tgz#b28aa6288a2b9fc651035c7711f65ab6190331a6"
   integrity sha1-soqmKIorn8ZRA1x3EfZathkDMaY=
 
+lodash.clonedeep@^4.5.0:
+  version "4.5.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.clonedeep/-/lodash.clonedeep-4.5.0.tgz#e23f3f9c4f8fbdde872529c1071857a086e5ccef"
+  integrity sha1-4j8/nE+Pvd6HJSnBBxhXoIblzO8=
+
 lodash.defaults@^4.0.1:
   version "4.2.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.defaults/-/lodash.defaults-4.2.0.tgz#d09178716ffea4dde9e5fb7b37f6f0802274580c"
@@ -6198,6 +6208,11 @@ lodash.defaultsdeep@^4.6.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.defaultsdeep/-/lodash.defaultsdeep-4.6.1.tgz#512e9bd721d272d94e3d3a63653fa17516741ca6"
   integrity sha512-3j8wdDzYuWO3lM3Reg03MuQR957t287Rpcxp1njpEa8oDrikb+FwGdW3n+FELh/A6qib6yPit0j/pv9G/yeAqA==
 
+lodash.escaperegexp@^4.1.2:
+  version "4.1.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.escaperegexp/-/lodash.escaperegexp-4.1.2.tgz#64762c48618082518ac3df4ccf5d5886dae20347"
+  integrity sha1-ZHYsSGGAglGKw99Mz11YhtriA0c=
+
 lodash.filter@^4.4.0:
   version "4.6.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.filter/-/lodash.filter-4.6.0.tgz#668b1d4981603ae1cc5a6fa760143e480b4c4ace"
@@ -6268,6 +6283,11 @@ lodash.merge@^4.4.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.merge/-/lodash.merge-4.6.2.tgz#558aa53b43b661e1925a0afdfa36a9a1085fe57a"
   integrity sha512-0KpjqXRVvrYyCsX1swR/XTK0va6VQkQM6MNo7PqW77ByjAhoARA8EfrP1N4+KlKj8YS0ZUCtRT/YUuhyYDujIQ==
 
+lodash.mergewith@^4.6.1:
+  version "4.6.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.mergewith/-/lodash.mergewith-4.6.2.tgz#617121f89ac55f59047c7aec1ccd6654c6590f55"
+  integrity sha512-GK3g5RPZWTRSeLSpgP8Xhra+pnjBC56q9FZYe1d5RN3TJ35dbkGy3YqBSMbyCrlbi+CM9Z3Jk5yTL7RCsqboyQ==
+
 lodash.once@^4.0.0:
   version "4.1.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/lodash.once/-/lodash.once-4.1.1.tgz#0dd3971213c7c56df880977d504c88fb471a97ac"
@@ -9187,6 +9207,22 @@ safefs@^3.1.2:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/safer-buffer/-/safer-buffer-2.1.2.tgz#44fa161b0187b9549dd84bb91802f9bd8385cd6a"
   integrity sha512-YZo3K82SD7Riyi0E1EQPojLz7kpepnSQI9IyPbHHg1XXXevb5dJI7tpyN2ADxGcQbHG7vcyRHk0cbwqcQriUtg==
 
+sanitize-html@^1.20.1:
+  version "1.20.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/sanitize-html/-/sanitize-html-1.20.1.tgz#f6effdf55dd398807171215a62bfc21811bacf85"
+  integrity sha512-txnH8TQjaQvg2Q0HY06G6CDJLVYCpbnxrdO0WN8gjCKaU5J0KbyGYhZxx5QJg3WLZ1lB7XU9kDkfrCXUozqptA==
+  dependencies:
+    chalk "^2.4.1"
+    htmlparser2 "^3.10.0"
+    lodash.clonedeep "^4.5.0"
+    lodash.escaperegexp "^4.1.2"
+    lodash.isplainobject "^4.0.6"
+    lodash.isstring "^4.0.1"
+    lodash.mergewith "^4.6.1"
+    postcss "^7.0.5"
+    srcset "^1.0.0"
+    xtend "^4.0.1"
+
 sass-loader@^8.0.0:
   version "8.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/sass-loader/-/sass-loader-8.0.0.tgz#e7b07a3e357f965e6b03dd45b016b0a9746af797"
@@ -9646,6 +9682,14 @@ sqlite3@^4.1.0:
     node-pre-gyp "^0.11.0"
     request "^2.87.0"
 
+srcset@^1.0.0:
+  version "1.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/srcset/-/srcset-1.0.0.tgz#a5669de12b42f3b1d5e83ed03c71046fc48f41ef"
+  integrity sha1-pWad4StC87HV6D7QPHEEb8SPQe8=
+  dependencies:
+    array-uniq "^1.0.2"
+    number-is-nan "^1.0.0"
+
 sshpk@^1.14.1, sshpk@^1.7.0:
   version "1.16.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/sshpk/-/sshpk-1.16.1.tgz#fb661c0bef29b39db40769ee39fa70093d6f6877"
@@ -11113,7 +11157,7 @@ xregexp@^2.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/xregexp/-/xregexp-2.0.0.tgz#52a63e56ca0b84a7f3a5f3d61872f126ad7a5943"
   integrity sha1-UqY+VsoLhKfzpfPWGHLxJq16WUM=
 
-xtend@^4.0.0, xtend@^4.0.2, xtend@~4.0.1:
+xtend@^4.0.0, xtend@^4.0.1, xtend@^4.0.2, xtend@~4.0.1:
   version "4.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/xtend/-/xtend-4.0.2.tgz#bb72779f5fa465186b1f438f674fa347fdb5db54"
   integrity sha512-LKYU1iAXJXUgAXn9URjiu+MWhyUXHsvfp7mcuYm9dSUKK0/CjtrUwFAxD82/mCWbtLsGjFIad0wIsod4zrTAEQ==