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sfba.social
Languages English (en)
Users 39,426
Active users (last month) 1,542
Active users (last six months) 2,648
Characters per post (max) 1,024
Known instances 47,435
First sight Not available
Last successful check Sep 10, 2026 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.7.0
Registrations Open (by admin approval)
Meta’s Threads moderation Unknown (this instance is not listed in the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact list), and its list of moderated instances is not accessible.
Most used hashtags (last week) apple, AppleEvent, iphone, MeerMittwoch, StarTrekDanceParty, iphoneduo, internationalsandwichasong, SeaWednesday, WhiskersWednesday, MusicWomenWednesday
Short description
A Mastodon instance for the San Francisco Bay Area. Come on in and join us!
Long description
Welcome to SFBA.social!

We are the regional Mastodon instance for the San Francisco Bay Area. Everyone is welcome - Current/past Bay Area citizens, Bay Area admirers, and people who want to move here one day :-)

Yay-Area Resident?

Signs you are from the SF Bay Area:
http://www.daveyd.com/sanfranpol.html
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/18-signs-grew-san-francisco

Contributions

Our Admin/Mod team members are all volunteers. The costs for hosting this instance are running at about $750/month.

Please consider contributing to our Instance: https://ko-fi.com/sfba_fedi

More Information

More information is available on the SFBA Community Hub

To submit a copyright claim, visit the DMCA Requests page on our community hub.
Instance rules
  1. Do not use slurs or racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or otherwise discriminatory or hateful jokes or language; or promote white supremacy, anti-Semitism, transphobia, casteist, or other hateful ideologies.
  2. Do not post content that is illegal in the USA or California.
  3. Do not harass anyone, participate in group harassment of anyone, or otherwise engage in name calling or personal attacks.
  4. Do not post or threaten to post other people’s personally identifying information (“doxxing”).
  5. Do not tone police.
  6. Do not “shitpost” hateful content
  7. Do not sell or promote cryptocurrencies or NFTs.
  8. Do not litigate moderation decisions on the timeline.
  9. Mark content that contains nudity, gore, violence, etc. as sensitive and clearly label it with a content warning and/or hashtag.
  10. Do not post spam.
  11. Organizations must be based in the SF Bay Area.
Moderated instances [?]
Not available
Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
  1. art.masto.host: suspension
  2. bdsm-jp.club: limitation
  3. eldritch.cafe: limitation
  4. french-take.pt: limitation
  5. lacommu.net: limitation
  6. masto.pixie.town: limitation
  7. mastodon.openjw.com: suspension
  8. mastodon.parleur.net: suspension
  9. monsterfuckers.online: suspension
  10. mytter.jp: suspension
  11. social.bananabanana.me: suspension
  12. sunbeam.city: suspension
  13. supebase.com: suspension
Date of creation Jun 1, 2023 UTC
Display name SFBA Moderators
Bio
The official account of the SFBA Moderators.
Statistics
Last 12 weeks activity (totals: 160654 statuses, 12779 logins, 36 registrations)
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Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
9/3/26, 2:06:19 PM UTC9/4/26, 2:17:01 AM UTC9/5/26, 1:42:03 AM UTC9/6/26, 1:32:36 AM UTC9/7/26, 1:00:26 AM UTC9/8/26, 1:12:03 AM UTC9/9/26, 1:54:14 AM UTC9/10/26, 1:52:58 AM UTC
Succesful checks: 1462/1463 (99.93%)