Cybersecurity, fandom, video games, technology, dog photos and most importantly, you.

Life from the trenches. Cybersecurity, fandom, video games, technology, dog photos and most importantly, you.

Federated with other Mastodon instances minus the nazis, this server is monitored 24/7 and backed up daily. We fully subscribe to and comply with the Mastodon Server Covenant.

The intention is to have light touch moderation and empower you to bring yourself to the table and interact.

1. No discrimination -- including racism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia.
2. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
3. No impersonation of a person or brand. Even parodies.
4. Spam. Don't join if you just want to spam links to things you represent.
5. No attacking or pentesting of this instance, or any other instance.
6. Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.
7. Do not join to primarily publicise or promote 'red team' tools.
8. No porn or nudity.
9. No posting identifiable personal information from data breaches.

1. bladerunner.social: suspension
2. fedi.kyuties.rocks: suspension
3. mastodon.derpstra.nl: suspension
4. mytter.jp: suspension

A place to chat and hang out.

1. No Harassment: Harassment, including but not limited to bullying, is not allowed and will not be tolerated. Failure to comply after a warning will result in an immediate ban from the server.

1. bae.st: suspended
2. detroitriotcity.com: suspended
3. elonsucks.org: suspended (reason: This domain looks suspicious.)

1. biscuit.town: suspension
2. left-tusk.com: suspension

Technodon is an English speaking Mastodon instance that is open to anyone, especially those who are interested in technology & software.

Welcome!

Technodon is the Mastodon server for techies.

Status

Current infrastructure status can be found at: https://status.technodon.org

1. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
4. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
5. No content illegal in the United States
6. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information

1. artisan.chat: suspension
2. cathode.church: suspension
3. circumstances.run: suspension
4. cupoftea.social: suspension
5. fedi.kyuties.rocks: suspension
6. icosahedron.website: limitation
7. mastodon.actors.social: suspension
8. monads.online: suspension
9. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension
10. simcha.lgbt: suspension
11. social.nekover.se: suspension
12. veganism.social: suspension
13. zeal.center: limitation

Server by @cleatsandcode's business Isitmeanttodothat.io. Keep it friendly, insulting Gallybagger will get you banned, probably.
Banner photo: https://unsplash.com/@lison

Welcome (🎵to the Isle of Wight...) IOW.Social

Keep it clean, polite(ish). If you must look down on someone, only do it with the intention of helping them back up.

Funding

This server is funded by @cleatsandcode and @isitmeanttodothat at present. Donations/support are gratefully received though the Patreon lkink to donate here.

Reporting and moderation

When reporting accounts, please make sure to include at least a few posts that show rule-breaking behaviour, when applicable. If there is any additional context that might help make a decision, please also include it in the comment. This is especially important when the content is in a language nobody on the moderation team speaks.

We usually handle reports within 24 hours. Please mind that you are not notified when a report you have made has led to a punitive action, and that not all punitive actions are externally visible. For first time offences, we may opt to delete offending content, escalating to harsher measures on repeat offences.

Overview of Rules

Please read the below basic rules:

1. You must comply with the Code of Conduct (see below). In general, be respectful of each other and we'll all get on just fine.
2. Commercial use; company accounts are welcome but advertising is not permitted on this server. Over promotion, bot like behaviour replying to users, etc. will not be tolerated.
3. Bots are allowed on this server as long as they are useful, interesting, or amusing. Bots that post excessively, that simply boost or link other posts, that just follow other users, or that produce badly-formed output will be suspended.

Arriving from Twitter?

If you're coming from Twitter, here are a few useful tools:

• Find people you know over there by connecting your accounts up to Fedifinder or Twitodon.
• Cross-post your toots to Twitter with Moa Bridge, if you want to stay active over there as well as here.

Code of Conduct

Our Pledge

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

Our Standards

Examples of behaviour that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Focusing on what is best for the community
• Showing empathy towards other community members

Examples of unacceptable behaviour by participants include:

• The use of sexualised language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
• Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks Public or private harassment
• Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
• Use of accounts for public figures is encouraged however, we ask you interact with comments and the community and not use your account as a notice board or press release hub by ignoring comments/interactions with other users.

Our Responsibilities

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behaviours and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behaviour.

Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviours that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, and it also applies when an individual is representing the project or its community in public spaces. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported by contacting the project team at james2isitmeanttodothat.io. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.

Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other members of the project’s leadership.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.4, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html

Roadmap

As the server grows we plan to scale infrastructure accordingly. As part of this there may be scheduled downtime which will be announced long before.

As costs of this rise, I (@cleatsandcode) will put together a clear outline of monthly costs and donations to this are greatly received. At present the rough monthly running costs (currently covered through myself and my business) is £130 for mail, hosting, data storage. If you'd like to pop a coffee my way in the meantime please donate here.

1. Do: Using welcoming and inclusive language. Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences. Gracefully accepting constructive criticism. Focusing on what is best for the community. Showing empathy towards other community members.
2. Do not post: Sexualised language/imagery/unwelcome sexual attention or advances. Personal/political attacks inclusive of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia. Publishing others’ private information. Publish any illegal content in the UK. Incitement of violence/violent ideologies
3. Commercial: Company accounts are welcome but advertising is not permitted on this server. Over promotion, bot like behaviour replying to users, etc. will not be tolerated.
4. Public interest accounts: Use of accounts for public figures is encouraged however, we ask you interact with comments and the community and not use your account as a notice board or press release hub by ignoring comments/interactions with other users.
5. ** You must ** Have a link to the IoW (UK) and state how in the signup process. Requests with no link stated in the "Why do you want to join" will be rejected.

A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

About

Shakedown Social is a community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Fans of bands like Phish, Goose, the Grateful Dead, Billy Strings, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Umphrey's McGee, the Disco Biscuits and more all gather here.

Shakedown is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations. You can help cover the cost of hosting by donating here. All donations go directly to hosting costs.

Mastodon Server Covenant

We are committed to the Mastodon Server Covenant, which includes:

• Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.
• Our user data is backed up daily.
• Multiple people have emergency access to the server infrastructure.
• Users will be provided with at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down.

1. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia will be tolerated
3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
4. No harassment or doxxing of other users
5. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
6. No holocaust denialism, Nazi symbolism, promotion of National Socialism, or anything that is illegal in the European Union.
7. No fake accounts or celebrity joke accounts. Note that this rule only applies to accounts on shakedown.social.
8. No impersonation of a band, a brand, band members, crew, or management.

1. h-i.social: suspension
2. monsterfuckers.online: suspension
3. mytter.jp: suspension
4. toot.lgbt: suspension

Mastodon Instanz des DEU Kreises von Miltwitter

1. Seid Lieb und Freundlich
2. Bitte beachte die Prinzipien von PersSec & OpSec. PersDat (außer von anderen Miltrötern selbst freigegeben) hat nichts hier zu suchen

Ain't That Cunnin' is a Fediverse instance running Mastodon intended as a community hub for folks who live in Maine.

When I first found Mastodon in early 2022, I loved the idea of instances based on interest or geography or whatever it was. I looked for a Maine-centric instance, but no luck. For the next several months, I used Mastodon on and off, but it wasn't until Elon's purchase was finalized that I dove in more completely. Much to my disappointment, still no instance specific to Maine people. So here we are.

Ain't that cunnin'?

1. Don't be a dink. "Being a dink" includes but is not limited to: racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, any form of harassment or promotion of violence, or the posting of sexually explicit or illegal content.

1. aethy.com: limitation
2. c.im: limitation
3. meow.social: limitation
4. norden.social: limitation
5. social.afront.org: suspension
6. urbanists.social: limitation

this space is envisioned as a space for the diaspora ... the displaced; the sidelined; the marginalised. an option for BiPOC folks on the fediverse to move out of wholly white-controlled instances.

the what and the who?

"diaspora.im" is glitch-soc (a mastodon fork) fediverse server, envisioned as a space for the diaspora - the displaced - the sidelined - the marginalised.

the name of the server is a reference to the dictionary meaning of 'diaspora':

diaspora | dʌɪˈasp(ə)rə | noun the dispersion or spread of a folks from their original homeland

it is also a riff on the notion that non-white folks are necessarily displaced from the "common" or "dominant" culture. and while we prioritise the comfort and safety of black, disabled, queer folk, we welcome all of you here.

the why

the online digital community is a hostile place for us. the fediverse is a constant hotbed of bigotry at any given moment. my goal with this space is to provide an option for us. an option that is not white-centric, not cis- or hetero- centric, and not abled-centric. i am black, queer, and disabled myself so feel comforted in the fact that out of my own sense of self-preservation will come an approach to managing this server with sanity, safety, accessibility, and comfort at the forefront. we do not have enough options. diaspora.im is one more option.

how do i join?

click the "Create account" button and enter your sign-in details. you will be asked to confirm your account via email. please use a valid email address that you will continue to have access to. this is the primary way that you will retain access to your account.

once you have confirmed you email address, you will be asked to enter a reason for joining. all accounts require approval on this server and a reason is required. let us know a little about you and why you want to be here. be aware that there will be a waiting period while we process your join request and allow for some time for that process to complete.

note that we prioritise black, disabled, queer folk here. (see "the what and the who" above.)

moderation policies

we are a proactively moderated server. we take swift and decisive action with reports and pre-emptively issue blocks and suspensions liberally to ensure a minimal amount of the harassment we often get from the rest of the world.

here on diaspora.im, we are explicitly anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, and anti-capitalist and we subscribe to the following political philosophies:

• Black liberation
• gender expansiveness
• disability justice
• fat liberation
• class warfare
• prison abolition

any actions taken by users that align with white supremacy, antiblackness, colorism, ableism, transmisia, misogyny, fat hate, gender binarism, or cissexism/heterosexism will be addressed. warnings, post deletion, silencing, and suspension are all on the table when it comes to moderation.

we started out with thebad.space blocklist export at heat rating 50% because we wanted to make sure we filter out the problematic instances right off the bat. i ( @fyrfli ) personally vetted the list before importing it to confirm the domains on the list were domains we wanted blocked.

our blocklist will be maintained by hand in the immediate future by making instance block decisions on a case by case basis. that might change once thebad.space has matured fully.

whole instance blocks will be communicated to the community with at least 30 days notice.

sibling instances!

these are instances whose mod/admin teams we work very closely with, given our shared vision and goals for building a safer fediverse for marginalised groups and oppressed peoples. think of us as different houses in the same neighbourhood.

if you've used akkoma, you would recognise this as a kind of similar to bubble instances.

these instances are as follows:

• artcrimes.gay - donate here
• blackqueer.life - donate here

best practices for accessibility

some of our users are disabled (for example, 1 in 4 black american adults), and to make sure that everyone is provided with the tools they need to participate fully in our community, here are some collective habits that we should adopt:

• alt-text your images. if you are not in a position to do so, please use #AltTextHelp and someone from the community should be able to help and provide it. another tag you can use,#ALT4me, lets you ask for an alt text for your image and #ALT4you or #ALT4U can be used in the comments to indicate to the op that you've written an alt text for them to add to their image
• avoid using too many emojis in a row. example: putting 3 smiley faces in a row, or 60 red flags. screen readers do not handle them well
• use PascalCase for hashtags e.g. #AltTextHelp
• when sharing a link, provide a brief description of where the link directs to
• use captions in uploaded videos

(these best practices were inspired by disabled.social via bql)

a note on privacy and security

the privacy policy is the stock one that comes with glitch, so here is a bit of additional info:

• we only retain data that we absolutely need to log you in and let you post and interact
• we will not retain anything if you delete your account outside of details that may linger as a result of filing a report. the internal moderation page will show your username but crossed out
• we don't control other servers however so we can't control or even know if they're not doing iffy shit, whether they mean to or not - one of the downsides of federation is that once it leaves our server, it's pretty much out of our hands.
• we do not allow scraping or archiving, however we have little power to stop such things. remember, this is the internet. nothing is private really.

(this section shamelessly adapted from the artcrimes.gay code of conduct - thanks evel)

server details

this server is running glitch-soc, a fork of mastodon, using the managed hosting provider, fedi monster. you can see more information by going to their page, but daily backups and regular updates are included.

if you would like to help sustain the server, you can donate via liberapay or ko-fi or contribute to the collective.

at the moment, i ( @fyrfli ) am the only person on the administration team but that will change in the near future as we grow.

final thoughts

i am an open book. you can ask me anything. i try to think of myself as approachable and i expend extra effort to address any and all concerns in a measured manner. please feel free to @ me, dm me, email me, or whatever if you have any concerns, feedback, questions, etc.

(adapted from bql - thanks eva)

1. no antiblackness, colorism, transmisia, cisheterosexism, ableism, misogyny, fat hate, or gender binarism
2. no harassment, bullying, or doxxing other users
3. no misinformation, disinformation, or deliberate obfuscation of facts
4. always add content warnings for lewd content
5. you must be 18 years or older to have an account here
6. every human deserves dignity - treat them with respect

1. aethy.com: suspension
2. emeraldsocial.org: suspension
3. furry.community: suspension
4. gender.systems: suspension
5. social.cutiecluster.cc: suspension
6. squawk.silvereagle.dev: suspension