This is a general purpose Mastodon instance hosted by @wintburr that runs on the Chuckya fork. We, the Admins and Moderators, will try to run things as openly and transparently as possible, and users are more than encouraged to suggest changes and bring up issues with the service.
While it's
not guaranteed, the Admin will try to maintain stability and minimize downtime. The historical downtime can be seen on the
instance's fediverse.observer page.
Please note that
we do not take responsibility for any content originating from other instances which gets hosted on Oomfie City, as monitoring every federated post would be impossible, but
we will take action if anything that goes against our rules gets reported to us. However, if you believe something outside of Oomfie City should be deleted, it needs to be brought up with the moderators of the instance hosting it, who will take action in accordance with their rules and policies.
Finally, we will try and block scraping of this instance whenever possible, in particular scraping made by corporations who train their Machine Learning/"Artificial Intelligence" models on data from the Internet. Being used as training data should be opt-in, not opt-out. This means we do not allow scraping of this instance, and any entity which would do so would be illegally copying and reproducing content from this instance.
ModerationThis instance is moderated and managed by
Contacting the moderators is preferably done via the shared
@FeatheredServices account. The account is also used for announcements and information about both oomfie.city (and it's
sister instance), as well as the other services hosted by Wintburr under
the Feathered and Oomfie.City domain names.
Please also note that reports and actions taken are handled at the discretion of the moderators, and thus might not always fully reflect what the instance allows, or any actions that get taken in the future. To clarify, this does not mean that anyone can get away with breaking the rules or get banned for no reason, of course. Action taken is decided with the context of the offending content in mind, and as such For example, saying slurs is not allowed, but a user
is allowed to say slurs they can reclaim if used in a non-derogatory. At the same time, action can be taken if said user fails to accommodate to the wishes of other users (as in, for example, adding content warnings on posts featuring them, or not using them around someone, if requested.)
AttributionCustom Emojis (list is incomplete):
The current custom theme used is
Modern Theme made by
@Freeplay@wetdry.world, which is the default theme used.
Custom CSS:
Additional informationOomfie City has a
discord server! It's meant to be a secondary platform for users as well as visitors to connect with each other in a more... "not federated" way, so to speak. Everyone is welcome to come chill and hang out!
While it is highly unlikely, if the instance was to be shut down, the
@FeatheredServices account would be used to communicate it
at least two months in advance, and Mastodon's Announcements tool would be used as well, to ensure that no user is unaware of the shutdown.
Finally, users are able to tip the instance's owner through
their Stripe page, or through
their Ko-fi page, although it is not needed since hosting is cheap. The tips will let the admin afford some donuts as treats though. Thank you :)