A friendly server from Germany – which tends to attract techy people, but welcomes everybody. This is one of the oldest Mastodon instances.

This instance uses the Mastomojies set by @seppini.
You can copy them in your admin panel or get them here.

Alternative frontends

• Phanpy @phanpy.social.tchncs.de

Funding

You can – but don't have to – support this server by leaving a small donation. Get more info at tchncs.de/donate

Notice

Our terms don't yet reflect it for technical reasons but logfiles are now purged after 7 days!

Staff

@Cedara (Moderator)
@Meldrian (Moderator)
@wuffel (Moderator)
@Milan (Site Owner)
@Thomas (Co-Admin for emergency access)

Guidelines

On social.tchncs.de our primary directive is:
→ "Be nice to each other!"

Please remember there are real people on the other side of the screen, and those people may have different feelings and opinions and experiences than you do. Some of them may be tired or having a bad day. Or you might.

You don't have to agree with someone to be civil to them. If you can't be civil to someone, leave them alone.

If you don't wish to interact with someone, or see any of their posts, there are tools at your disposal including mute and block functions.

If someone's posts make you angry or upset, take some time to calm down before you reply. You might also try simply excusing yourself from a conversation and ask them to untag you if you no longer wish to discuss a topic.

When someone asks you to leave them alone, leave them alone. If you feel like you can't control your urge to respond to that person, use the block or mute feature so you won't see their posts and be tempted.

Keep in mind that while you cannot control other people's behavior, you are still responsible for your own conduct, even if you feel someone was rude to you or someone else.

We will not allow abusive or disruptive conduct by or toward users on social.tchncs.de. This includes continuing to engage in conversation with someone who has specifically requested you leave them alone, inciting other users to engage with that person on your behalf, aggregating and posting another person's personal information without their consent, and inciting others to engage with that person on other platforms. Blocking someone and then sitting on the other side of a block and continuing to talk about that person is also a provoking behavior.

Before you post, think about whether this is the kind of thing you would like to see (or would like your mom or kids to see) in the public timeline. There are post visibility settings that give you some control over which timelines your post appears in, and also CW and NSFW buttons to hide specific text and images in your post. Be a good social media neighbor and use these functions when appropriate.

Content not allowed on social.tchncs.de

• Sexual depictions of children
• Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism; Antisemitism, Antiziganism or related.
• Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
• Content that is considered to be misinformation/conspiracy

Content which will be removed from the public timeline:

• Excessive advertising
• Untagged pornography- and sexually explicit content
• Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence

We will also remove any content we judge to be hateful toward specific individuals or groups, or intended to cause or incite harm from the public timeline. This includes Ableism.

This guideline is intentionally vague because we do not intend to play "rules lawyer" on the subject of what it is and isn't okay to say about people. A good rule of thumb is, if you're about to say something you think might fall foul of this rule, you probably shouldn't say it. ☺

Timeline Flooding

In order to keep the best user experience, we ask you not to send like twenty toots in two minutes (exemplification) as people want to be able to see more than just one user in their timelines.
Of course we understand and may do an exception for critical reasons of yours like a kind of serious emergency situation for example.

Crossposting

Your account must not be used as a sole mirror of some other platform: by having an account on this server, the team and fellow users expect to interact with – and read from – a real and authentic person. We understand that you might want to also crosspost from other platforms, but we also ask you to not do that exclusively.

Reporting / Moderation Notes

If you see content which you believe is in breach of these rules, please report it for review,
it is very important for us, as it makes our work easier and this instance a more enjoyable place.
Please note however that repeately falsely reporting users is not welcomed and are treated as feature-abuse.

In case you broke our rules by mistake, we may try to reach out to you so please make sure not to block the team of social.tchncs.de.

These guidelines are not a legal document, they're here to provide you with an insight into our moderation policies. Final interpretation is up to the administration of social.tchncs.de and the administration reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.

Federation status

social.tchncs.de does not believe in censorship. Federation is a network service and suspension of federation with another server will only be implemented as a last resort where content from another server may cause problems under German law, or in cases of technical difficulties or hostile or malicious activity. If we need to suspend federation or silence another instance for one/some of these reasons, it will be noted here (now further below). Did we make a wrong decision in your opinion? Ping us!

(Note: you can still communicate with users on silenced instances; their posts will not appear in our public timelines. You will not be able to see posts made by users on suspended instances.)

Reporting an issue

For technical issues, use the administrator contact information listed under "Contact" For content or abuse issues:

• if you're a user on social.tchncs.de you can use the "Report Abuse" function on the post you would like to report;
• If you're not a user on social.tchncs.de, or you're an administrator of another server who would like to discuss an abuse report you received about one of our users, please use the administrator email listed under "Contact"

For privacy reasons, we will not discuss abuse reports in public channels.

Funding

Our servers and related are crowdfunded and thereby made possible by our amazing community. 😍

Privacy

Please remember that nothing on the internet is really private and consider anything you say saved forever. Mastodon is not a secure channel for sensitive communication.

social.tchncs.de does not use advertising or external analytics software and does not sell your information.
(Instead you can help us by dropping a small donation. &#9825 😉)

Machine learning

We do not intend this sites contents to be used for training machine learning models and related technologies. Without the specific permission from the site owner and the affected users, you are strictly forbidden from doing so.

-> Imprint

1. Be nice to each other
2. Do not publish advertisements
3. Do not publish conspiracy myths
4. Do not publish content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
5. Do not publish content promoting the ideology of National Socialism
6. Do not publish content that is hateful towards specific individuals or groups, or intended to cause or incite harm
7. Do not exclusively crosspost from other platforms

1. 765racing.com: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
2. 9kb.me: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
3. academia.pub: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
4. activitypub-troll.cf: suspended (reason: malicious actor)
5. aether.run: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
6. aethy.com: suspended (reason: loli/sexual drawings+animations of minors; graphics of violence and abuse)
7. airwaves.social: limited (reason: moderation seems inactive while instance is overrun by spambots)
8. america.social: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
9. andrew.xyz: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
10. anim*.****ite: suspended (reason: shitposting instance, administration seems pro-pedophilia and lolicon-content)
11. bae.st: suspended
12. baraag.net: suspended (reason: much unmoderated loli content and related)
13. besties.com: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
14. bigballchunkyverse.online: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
15. bondsdogs.com: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
16. brands.town: suspended (reason: spam / copyright violations / impersonation (funny tho))
17. brighteon.social: suspended (reason: hatespeech, misinformation, shitposting, ...)
18. chil*****.su: suspended (reason: child abuse)
19. childpawn.shop: suspended (reason: loli/pedophilia, racist content)
20. closednetwork.social: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
21. cmm.fyi: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
22. crypto-group-buy.com: suspended (reason: spam)
23. cunnyborea.top: suspended (reason: unmoderated spam)
24. cutefunny.net: suspended (reason: unmoderated spam)
25. degenerates.fail: suspended (reason: considered being lawless)
26. detroitriotcity.com: suspended (reason: unmoderated/lawless: shitposting/spammy content violating multiple instancerules)
27. dev-wiki.de: limited (reason: Not properly moderated, admin seems empathize with corona myths.)
28. digitaldata.social: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
29. eddyn.net: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
30. educhat.social: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
31. edusocial.it: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
32. even*.******.de: suspended
33. eveningzoo.club: suspended (reason: unmoderated/lawless: much shitposting/spammy content violating multiple instancerules)
34. exited.eu: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
35. exploding-heads.com: suspended (reason: alt-right shitposting, conspiracy myths and more, admins engage in breaking their own rules)
36. fedichive.tk: suspended (reason: Spam)
37. feminism.lgbt: suspended (reason: Selfprotection (errors, down) - suspicious activity)
38. foederiert.de: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
39. forestver.se: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
40. forum-lucifer.com: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
41. freeatlantis.com: suspended (reason: fake news / propaganda)
42. freecu*********t.com: suspended (reason: shitposting instance, bad moderation)
43. freefedifollowers.ga: suspended (reason: Spam / Harmful administration activities)
44. freesocial.co: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
45. freespeechextremist.com: suspended (reason: Workaround for instance-wide CW)
46. friendica.eskimo.com: suspended (reason: admin appears to be openly racist)
47. gab.ai: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
48. gab.com: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
49. gameliberty.club: suspended (reason: Suspicious or harmful administration activity / considered lawless)
50. gegenstimme.tv: suspended (reason: misinformation, hateful / rightwing / nazi content)
51. getwild.online: suspended (reason: dedicated to porn, not properly enforcing nsfw. rejecting media would be useless as pretty much only media is posted.)
52. ginny.chat: suspended (reason: Suspicious or harmful administration activity)
53. gitmo.life: suspended (reason: considered being lawless)
54. groupsebelah.com: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
55. gs.kawa-kun.com: limited (reason: Considered being lawless)
56. hentai.baby: suspended (reason: loli)
57. heymaven.com: suspended (reason: ai scaping)
58. humblr.social: limited (reason: Workaround for instance-wide CW)
59. iddqd.social: suspended (reason: multiple rule violations)
60. indiegameskey.net: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
61. kenfm.de: suspended (reason: Verschwörungs-Mythen und Hetze)
62. kernkraft.social: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
63. kids.0px.io: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
64. kitsui.life: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
65. kitty.town: suspended (reason: Suspicious or harmful administration activity)
66. kiwifarms.cc: suspended (reason: Workaround for instance-wide CW)
67. kokuusa.club: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
68. kommunismus.social: limited (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
69. lemmygrad.ml: suspended (reason: tankies, communism)
70. loli.pizza: suspended (reason: Not well moderated, allows loli content - even "boosted" by admin)
71. m.n1l.dev: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
72. mastinator.com: suspended (reason: malicious actor)
73. masto.glx-consulting.com: suspended (reason: Excessive spread of conspiracy myths)
74. mastodon-ero.xyz: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
75. mastodon.sitejp.synology.me: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
76. maven.ly: suspended (reason: ai scaping)
77. meld.de: suspended (reason: Conspiracy instance)
78. milkiyatelier.quest: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
79. misskey.shunrin.com: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
80. molaguay.xyz: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
81. mstdn.foxfam.club: suspended (reason: appears to be 100% rss bots ... and a ton.)
82. mxin.moe: suspended (reason: unmoderated spam)
83. my.dirtyhobby.xyz: suspended (reason: unmoderated content)
84. myfreecams.com: limited (reason: Workaround for instance-wide CW)
85. nasface.cz: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
86. nazi.social: suspended
87. neckbeard.xyz: suspended (reason: considered lawless: shitposter instance seemingly allowing loli/conspiracy/hatespeech content)
88. neet.co.jp: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
89. neuroscience-mastodon.com: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
90. newjack.city: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
91. noagendasocial.com: suspended (reason: hatespeech, misinformation, shitposting, ...)
92. nobodyhasthe.biz: suspended (reason: national socialism, and more)
93. ns.auction: suspended (reason: Unmoderated racism)
94. ntfy.sh: suspended (reason: test)
95. onion.social: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
96. owo.town: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
97. pawoo.net: limited (reason: Media-block due to in germany illegal media)
98. phyrexia.ru: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
99. pieville.net: suspended (reason: misinformation, hateful / rightwing / nazi content)
100. pika.moe: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
101. pl.smuglo.li: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
102. poa.st: suspended (reason: Self-described as shitposting-instance, much racist content)
103. poedelwitz.de: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
104. posting.lolicon.rocks: suspended (reason: multiple rule violations by users and admins (such as symbols of national socialism))
105. querdenken-711.de: suspended (reason: dedicated to conspiracy myths)
106. radiosocial.org: suspended (reason: discontinued instance, block to avoid errors)
107. sealion.club: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
108. search.fedi.app: suspended
109. seg.br: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
110. shitposter.club: suspended (reason: Considered being lawless)
111. sinblr.com: limited (reason: workaround, untagged nsfw content)
112. skinheads.social: suspended
113. sleepy.cafe: suspended (reason: shitposting / harassment / nazistuff)
114. sneed.social: suspended (reason: shitposting/nazism/hatespeech instance)
115. snmsoc.org: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
116. social.ancreport.com: suspended (reason: spam and loli content, overall content violates multiple rules)
117. social.esmailelbob.xyz: limited (reason: singleuser instance, content hateful towards lgbtq+)
118. social.hatthieves.es: suspended (reason: Suspicious or harmful administration activity / considered lawless)
119. socnet.softgirl.online: suspended (reason: spam)
120. solagg.com: suspended (reason: spam, possibly harmful activities, will re-review)
121. svgun.ru: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
122. tcpcat.net: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
123. techsocial.site: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
124. thebigeasy.space: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
125. thewiring.com: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
126. threads.net: suspended (reason: beside sabotaging the fediverse, many concerns are floating around meta. also federating may motivate to try out their privacy invading app. we will do a vote on that block again later.)
127. tickler.cc: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
128. tootnet.nl: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
129. transmit.love: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
130. twitter.1d4.us: suspended (reason: spam)
131. usasa.ky: suspended (reason: overrun by bots, not moderated properly)
132. varishangout.net: suspended (reason: loli/weapons/shitpost)
133. waterlily.tokyo: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
134. witches.town: suspended (reason: Selfprotection (errors) due to instance discontinuation)
135. xicon.eu: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)
136. youjo.love: suspended
137. zorqz.com: suspended (reason: inactive users, very active bots, not properly moderated)

1. cathode.church: limitation
2. eldritch.cafe: limitation
3. fedi.kyuties.rocks: suspension
4. glaceon.social: suspension
5. m.noxie.ch: suspension
6. mastodon.art: limitation
7. mastodon.guerilla.studio: suspension
8. mastodon.nervesocket.com: limitation
9. mytter.jp: suspension
10. octodon.social: limitation
11. plush.city: limitation
12. ragol.org: limitation
13. solarpunk.moe: suspension
14. strangeobject.space: limitation
15. sunbeam.city: suspension
16. tooot.im: limitation
17. toot.lgbt: suspension