A cozy online home for arthropod enthusiasts, fungi fans, herpers, and other lovers of weird little creatures.

Flipping.rocks is a cozy online home for arthropod enthusiasts, fungi fans, herpers, and other lovers of weird little creatures. You could probably describe us as "goblincore". We use the Hometown fork of Mastodon.

Rules & policies

Flipping.rocks adheres to the Mastodon Server Covenant, which requires:

• Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia
• Daily backups
• At least one other person with emergency access to the server infrastructure
• Commitment to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down

For more details, see our documentation site.

For rules, see the "Server rules" section below.

How to use flipping.rocks

Our documentation site has guides to how flipping.rocks and the wider fediverse work, including:

• Timelines and post visibility
• Safety and privacy settings
• Filtering, muting, blocking
• Server-wide muting/blocking
• Alt text, content warnings, and sensitive media

Emoji

We have numerous custom emoji, including:

• many Pride flags in various forms
• blobs, blobcats, and blobraccoons
• Creative Commons and Open Access icons
• various birds and other creatures

Here is a list of custom emoji created especially for flipping.rocks.

News

See the blog for news on major updates, policy changes, etc.

1. Don't be racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, fatphobic, etc., you know the drill. Don't interact with people if they've asked you to stop doing so. Don't be a "reply guy".
2. Use informative descriptions, hashtags, content warnings, etc., to allow people to filter out posts if necessary. Don't be a dick about it.
3. Credit other creators appropriately when posting their work. No generative AI.
4. Don't do/discuss doing/link to illegal shit.