Emerald Social is a social network for Eugene-Springfield (Oregon) and the surrounding area, and a gateway to the world.

Emerald Social is a social network for Eugene-Springfield (Oregon) and the surrounding area, and a gateway to the world.

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Mastodon Server Covenant

We are currently in the process of working towards compliance with the Mastodon Server Covenant. Finished items are marked with an X.

1. [X] Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia
2. [X] Daily Backups
3. [ ] At least one other person with emergency access to the server infrastructure
4. [X] Commitment to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down

Metadata Guidelines

Within the page for the Mastodon Covenant is also a list of metadata guidelines which we are now compliant.

1. [X] Short Description
2. [X] Thumbnail
3. [X] Language
4. [X] Rules
5. [X] Contact Information

Upkeep Costs

In the interest of transparency, we maintain a list of all upkeep costs for this instance. (All in USD)

• Linode Object Storage: $5 per month
• Domain (via Njalla): ~$15.92 per year

Haven Policy

While we are primarily an instance for those in the Eugene-Springfield area, we are open as a haven for marginalized people who are facing harassment or other harm in other instances. Just let us know when signing up!

User-Agent Blocks

In addition to the servers listed in the Moderated Servers section, all servers of the type wildebeest are blocked through an NGINX config option. To do this yourself for your own server, add the linked code in the server block in your NGINX site configuration file. Why is this being done? In-short, wildebeest is a fork of Mastodon designed to run on Cloudflare. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince describes himself as a "free-speech absolutist" which is really just a roundabout way of saying that he supports the right for people to use speech to spread rhetoric which causes real-world harm. At Emerald Social, we would rather not let that risk affect our instance, and so have elected to block all wildebeest instances entirely.

Tor

This instance supports federating over the tor network!

Check out this page if you want to add similar support to your instance.

You can also directly access this instance over Tor, although the web frontend still requires JavaScript to access.

Tor for the frontend is not available right now, although we still federate with Tor instances. Sorry for the inconvenience!

1. Don't post harmful content including but not limited to: racism (whether it's antiblackness, antisemitism, islamophobia, or some other form of racism), sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, enby erasure, fatphobia, casteism, pluralphobia, disinformation and copaganda
2. Posting images of people without their consent is not tolerated here. If your image was posted without your consent, please contact staff at emeraldsocial@riseup.net
3. Usage of captions and descriptive text when posting images is heavily encouraged for the benefit of those using screen readers
4. This instance is intended for those located in or having relation to Eugene-Springfield and the surrounding area.
5. Don't post spam
6. Please use content warnings for NSFW, spoilers and potentially triggering content. If you're not sure, it's a safe bet to just add a content warning anyways.

1. jubi.life: suspension
2. kasumi.loliimoutolove.com: suspension
3. mastodon.art: suspension
4. solarpunk.moe: suspension