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 Admin UI for pleroma instance owners.
 
+### Branches
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+There are two main branches here:
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+- `develop`: ongoing work and all merge requests go here, *unstable*
+- `master`: after `develop` is stabilized it is merged to `master`, `master` is *stable*, allegedly
+
 ### Features
 
 1. User administration: grant roles to users (admin/moderator), deactivate/delete as well as force their statuses to have NSFW tag, strip media and many more