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Users 39,079
Active users (last month) 2,804
Active users (last six months) 5,809
Characters per post (max) 1,024
Known instances 40,362
First sight Before Oct 14, 2020 UTC [?]
Last successful check Feb 11, 2025 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.3.2
Registrations Open
Meta’s Threads moderation Threads is limited, according to this instance’s list of moderated instances.
Most used hashtags (last week) Photomonday, Fotomontag, lifewithoutinternetanything, cardgameasongorpoem, monday, mondaymotivation, mountainmonday, Mondog, kpopmonday
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. However, the costs for hosting this instance are now exceeding $1000/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 [?]
  1. 13bells.com: limited
  2. 3dp.chat: limited
  3. 9kb.me: limited
  4. a.sukazyo.cc: suspended
  5. ac.akirin.xyz: suspended
  6. acat.world: suspended
  7. activitypub-proxy.cf: suspended
  8. activitypub-troll.cf: suspended
  9. aether.run: limited
  10. airwaves.social: limited
  11. alive.bar: limited
  12. amarinha.gal: suspended
  13. andrew.xyz: limited
  14. archaeology.social: limited
  15. asbestos.cafe: limited
  16. asocial.social: suspended
  17. azemet.space: limited
  18. bae.st: limited
  19. baraag.net: suspended
  20. bassam.social: limited
  21. basstdn.jp: limited
  22. beefyboys.win: limited
  23. besties.com: limited
  24. beta.mstdn.cf: suspended
  25. bird.makeup: limited
  26. birdsite.wilde.cloud: suspended
  27. blahaj.finch.ink: limited
  28. bols.games: limited
  29. bondsdogs.com: limited
  30. bozgor.org: limited
  31. brands.town: limited
  32. brighteon.social: limited
  33. brokenhedge.org: limited
  34. caekis.love: suspended
  35. catcore.life: suspended
  36. channels.im: limited
  37. cherryberry.pink: limited
  38. childlove.space: suspended
  39. childlove.su: suspended
  40. childlove.top: suspended
  41. chudbuds.lol: suspended
  42. closednetwork.social: limited
  43. cmm.fyi: limited
  44. comingto.org: suspended
  45. comunitate.ascorcluj.com: limited
  46. creativewriting.social: limited
  47. crosstalk.tech: limited
  48. cryptodon.lol: limited
  49. cryptotalks.social: suspended
  50. cubfucker.pro: suspended
  51. cubsex.lol: suspended
  52. cubsex.pictures: suspended
  53. cum.salon: suspended
  54. cunny.beauty: suspended
  55. cunnyborea.top: limited
  56. cuyes.mooo.com: limited
  57. cybersecurity.masto.host: limited
  58. daystorm.netz.org: limited
  59. det.social: limited
  60. detmi.social: limited
  61. detroitriotcity.com: suspended
  62. dicekey.jp: suspended
  63. digitaldata.social: limited
  64. discourse.helenprejean.org: limited
  65. don.neet.co.jp: limited
  66. dreamersreality.dev: limited
  67. dw.n1l.dev: limited
  68. educhat.social: limited
  69. edusocial.it: limited
  70. eientei.org: suspended
  71. elderscrolls.space: suspended
  72. electroverse.tech: limited
  73. entomophagy.world: limited
  74. eveningzoo.club: suspended
  75. exmormon.social: limited
  76. federate.net: limited
  77. federated.place: limited
  78. fedi.buzz: suspended
  79. fedi.yesmap.net: suspended
  80. fetistodon.com: suspended
  81. forestver.se: limited
  82. foss.place: limited
  83. freeatlantis.com: suspended
  84. freecumextremist.com: limited
  85. freesocial.co: limited
  86. freespeechextremist.com: suspended
  87. freie-re.de: limited
  88. freifunk.social: suspended
  89. frennet.xyz: suspended
  90. fsebugoutzone.org: limited
  91. fuckgov.org: suspended
  92. furville.drinkanddrive.africa: suspended
  93. gab.com: suspended
  94. game-tecx.de: limited
  95. games.retrotalk.live: limited
  96. gametoots.de: limited
  97. gaydadon.jp: suspended
  98. genderheretics.xyz: limited
  99. gervtuber.de: limited
  100. graeber.social: limited
  101. groupsebelah.com: limited
  102. h5q.net: limited
  103. home.speakfree.social: limited
  104. humblr.social: suspended
  105. i.transmit.love: limited
  106. independent-media.co.uk: limited
  107. indiegameskey.net: suspended
  108. is.probablyabot.lol: suspended
  109. jiaojiao.org: suspended
  110. kalmar.social: limited
  111. kernkraft.social: limited
  112. kids.0px.io: suspended
  113. kidsarehot.fyi: suspended
  114. kinky.business: limited
  115. kira.zone: suspended
  116. kitsui.life: suspended
  117. kitsune.moe: suspended
  118. kokuusa.club: limited
  119. kommunismus.social: limited
  120. lawsocial.org: limited
  121. leafposter.club: suspended
  122. library.love: limited
  123. linke.social: limited
  124. locksport.space: limited
  125. loli.church: suspended
  126. lovelive-misskey.t1nyb0x.cloud: suspended
  127. m.corduba.tech: limited
  128. m.mxin.moe: limited
  129. m.n1l.dev: suspended
  130. m.techsocial.site: limited
  131. maaw.social: suspended
  132. makemysarcophagus.com: limited
  133. map-and-yap.club: suspended
  134. mapsupport.de: suspended
  135. mastadon.astuto.cc: limited
  136. mastdn.social: limited
  137. mastinator.com: suspended
  138. mastnode.faith: limited
  139. mastodon-ero.xyz: limited
  140. mastodon-swiss.org: limited
  141. mastodon.acm.org: limited
  142. mastodon.ashevillains.org: limited
  143. mastodon.buzhangjiuzhou.com: limited
  144. mastodon.cf: limited
  145. mastodon.cocamserverguild.com: suspended
  146. mastodon.com.py: limited
  147. mastodon.conquestuniverse.com: limited
  148. mastodon.education: limited
  149. mastodon.enitin.xyz: suspended
  150. mastodon.free-solutions.org: limited
  151. mastodon.frl: limited
  152. mastodon.gtmastodon.online: suspended
  153. mastodon.integrata-stiftung.de: limited
  154. mastodon.io.seg.br: limited
  155. mastodon.linuxmuster.net: limited
  156. mastodon.london: limited
  157. mastodon.mg: limited
  158. mastodon.mikmak.cc: limited
  159. mastodon.my: limited
  160. mastodon.openjw.com: suspended
  161. mastodon.sitejp.synology.me: suspended
  162. mastodon.sl: limited
  163. mastodon.svgun.ru: limited
  164. mastodon.thedirtydis.co: limited
  165. mastodon.top: limited
  166. mastodon.unpluggedrva.com: limited
  167. mastodon.wssmagazine.com: limited
  168. mastodon.zorqz.com: limited
  169. mastouille.fr: limited
  170. meetbeauties.social: limited
  171. mentalhealth-masto.com: limited
  172. metreee.com: suspended
  173. metsubo-jinrai.net: limited
  174. mi.c-at.jp: suspended
  175. mi.nakn.jp: limited
  176. milkiyatelier.quest: suspended
  177. minecraft.bktsk.com: suspended
  178. mineskey.xyz: suspended
  179. minor.cafe: suspended
  180. misskey-forkbomb.cf: suspended
  181. misskey.akatuki-host.com: suspended
  182. misskey.doujin.games: suspended
  183. misskey.ee: suspended
  184. misskey.favskey.online: suspended
  185. misskey.gfserver.jp: suspended
  186. misskey.gg: limited
  187. misskey.lalafell.org: suspended
  188. misskey.mofumofu.me: suspended
  189. misskey.pepabo.com: suspended
  190. misskey.shunrin.com: suspended
  191. misskey.suzuri.jp: suspended
  192. mk.chiwa.net: suspended
  193. mk.hoshisaki-h.com: suspended
  194. molaguay.xyz: limited
  195. morale.ch: suspended
  196. mostr.pub: limited
  197. motern.media: limited
  198. mrhands.horse: suspended
  199. mst.universoalterno.es: limited
  200. mstdn.beer: limited
  201. mstdn.jp: suspended
  202. mstdn.penguinhub.org: limited
  203. mugicha.club: limited
  204. n7.social: suspended
  205. nafo.uk: limited
  206. nagomisskey.com: limited
  207. nasface.cz: limited
  208. nationalist.social: suspended
  209. neckbeard.xyz: suspended
  210. nekton.social: suspended
  211. neomobius.com: limited
  212. neuroscience-mastodon.com: limited
  213. neuss.social: limited
  214. nicecrew.digital: suspended
  215. niederbayern.social: limited
  216. noagendasocial.com: suspended
  217. noauthority.social: suspended
  218. nobodyhasthe.biz: suspended
  219. norwoodzero.net: suspended
  220. nsfwmisskey.narazaka.net: suspended
  221. nycity.social: limited
  222. obo.sh: limited
  223. onion.social: limited
  224. osten.social: limited
  225. outpoa.st: suspended
  226. owo.town: limited
  227. oyasumi.ski: suspended
  228. parcero.bond: suspended
  229. pawoo.net: suspended
  230. phyrexia.ru: limited
  231. piaille.fr: limited
  232. piclub.social: suspended
  233. pieville.net: suspended
  234. pika.moe: suspended
  235. pl.firelink.digital: suspended
  236. poa.st: suspended
  237. porntoot.com: suspended
  238. portside.social: limited
  239. poster.place: suspended
  240. pravda.me: limited
  241. puls.social: suspended
  242. px.mathias777.com: limited
  243. pxlmo.net: limited
  244. qaf.men: limited
  245. quakers.social: limited
  246. queer.dev: limited
  247. rally.guide: limited
  248. rapemeat.solutions: suspended
  249. ravenation.club: limited
  250. rdrama.cc: suspended
  251. rebelbase.site: limited
  252. repl.co: suspended
  253. republic.red: limited
  254. rhythmisskey.games: suspended
  255. rope-access-work.com: limited
  256. rtypedbs.hostdon.ne.jp: limited
  257. ryona.agency: suspended
  258. sacred.harpy.faith: suspended
  259. scfzfilm.org: limited
  260. seal.cafe: suspended
  261. seda.social: limited
  262. shitpost.cloud: suspended
  263. shitposter.club: suspended
  264. shitposter.world: suspended
  265. shortstacksran.ch: suspended
  266. shotgunlife.social: limited
  267. sinblr.com: suspended
  268. skinheads.eu: suspended
  269. skinheads.social: suspended
  270. skinheads.uk: suspended
  271. sldon.com: limited
  272. sneed.social: suspended
  273. social.cezeri.tech: limited
  274. social.cutefunny.net: limited
  275. social.ergo-research.org: suspended
  276. social.foederiert.de: limited
  277. social.lovingexpressions.net: suspended
  278. social.mastodon.site: suspended
  279. social.onlinesession.app: suspended
  280. social.pogo.community: limited
  281. social.vegan.im.it: limited
  282. sotl.social: limited
  283. squabble.org: limited
  284. startrekshitposting.com: suspended
  285. supernets.social: limited
  286. switter.at: suspended
  287. tambayan.us: limited
  288. tastingtraffic.net: suspended
  289. tcpcat.net: limited
  290. tech.retrotalk.live: limited
  291. terere.social: limited
  292. the.asbestos.cafe: suspended
  293. thebigeasy.space: limited
  294. thewiring.com: limited
  295. thoughtful.social: limited
  296. threads.net: limited
  297. ti.parcero.casa: suspended
  298. tickler.cc: suspended
  299. ticos.social: limited
  300. toot.berlin: limited
  301. toot.poedelwitz.de: limited
  302. toot.quest: limited
  303. tootnet.nl: limited
  304. toots.258990001.xyz: limited
  305. transforthe.win: limited
  306. truthsocial.co.in: limited
  307. truthsocial.st: limited
  308. tty0.social: limited
  309. tweet.pasture.moe: suspended
  310. twi.social: suspended
  311. uma-aji.com: suspended
  312. unicuskey.com: suspended
  313. urlex.org: suspended
  314. urweibo.com: suspended
  315. usasa.ky: suspended
  316. videochina.net: limited
  317. vigaucho.eu: limited
  318. vipgirlfriend.xxx: suspended
  319. waterlily.tokyo: limited
  320. wellcr.app: limited
  321. westen.social: limited
  322. whitesmokebbq.social: limited
  323. witten.social: limited
  324. wpmastodon.es: limited
  325. wulf.social: limited
  326. www.blabbergoats.com: limited
  327. www.gctaisentl.com: suspended
  328. x.4j.ee: limited
  329. xn--p1abe3d.xn--80asehdb: suspended
Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
  1. bdsm-jp.club: limitation
  2. eldritch.cafe: limitation
  3. mastodon.openjw.com: suspension
  4. monsterfuckers.online: suspension
  5. mytter.jp: suspension
  6. sunbeam.city: suspension
  7. supebase.com: suspension
Admin account seb@sfba.social
Date of creation Dec 6, 2019 UTC
Display name Not available
Bio
Living the Dream...

Architecting secure systems and traveling the world is what I like.

Unfair, harsh, inconsiderate behavior is what I don't like.
Statistics
Last 12 weeks activity (totals: 208843 statuses, 20407 logins, 304 registrations)
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Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
2/4/25, 3:56:19 AM UTC2/5/25, 2:30:35 AM UTC2/6/25, 3:37:12 AM UTC2/7/25, 3:43:49 AM UTC2/8/25, 2:03:24 AM UTC2/9/25, 3:55:20 AM UTC2/10/25, 3:47:10 AM UTC2/11/25, 3:42:09 AM UTC
Succesful checks: 900/901 (99.89%)