Welcome to Newsmast. Knowledge-sharing social media with a conscience, built around communities and powered by Mastodon.

Knowledge-sharing social media with a conscience, built around communities and powered by Mastodon.

We’re diverse, democratic and dedicated to building safe, committed communities that change the world. Backed by a charitable foundation: the Newsmast Foundation.

Our mission is to change social media for good.

Newsmast is a combined Mastodon app and server and is best experienced on our mobile apps for iOS or Android - or on our desktop app.

You can find more about us, our FAQs and contact info on our website.

Getting Started

Here's a guide to Mastodon, it's written by @feditips@mstdn.social.

Community Guidelines

At Newsmast, there have to be rules, so that everyone feels safe and respected. We want to encourage a diversity of voices, which means allowing everyone to feel welcome without enduring hate speech or harassment of any kind.

Please read our community guidelines to learn more about what we stand for.

We plan to evolve these guidelines as time goes on in line with the development of Newsmast. Those who repeatedly fail to abide by them will be removed from the platform. Accounts posting certain types of offensive or illegal content will be removed immediately.

The community guidelines above also relate to direct messages.

Reporting and moderation

At Newsmast, we aim to abolish harassment, abuse and misinformation. If you find content that’s in breach of these guidelines, please report it by clicking on the three dots at the bottom right corner of the post and selecting report. Provide details of why you are reporting the post, then click confirm and report. Or you can email us at support@newsmast.org.

Following the report, there are several measures that we can take:

● Removing a post or comment: After we’ve done this, we’ll notify the account owner and inform them of the violation. They’re entitled to dispute the removal if they believe we got it wrong.

● Direct messages: If a direct message breaches our policies, we can temporarily or permanently suspend an account. Note that we are unable to monitor contents of DMs unless you report a message to us.

● Account suspension: Anyone who repeatedly violates our policies can be temporarily or permanently suspended. Being permanently suspended will forbid account owners from creating new accounts. The account holder can appeal this if they think we got it wrong.

Rest assured, our team will examine your complaint promptly.

The blocklist used on this server is the Oliphant Tier 0 blocklist, with a few additions by our curators.

Contact

The Newsmast Foundation, c/o Withers LLP, 20 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AN

Email: support@newsmast.org

Newsmast subscribes and adheres to the Mastodon Server Covenant.

You can find our FAQ and help pages on the Newsmast website.

Registered charity number 1205953.

1. You'll find our Community Guidelines at https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/community-guidelines/
2. Age restrictions: Newsmast account holders must be at least 18 years old.
3. Be you: Users are not allowed to assume someone else’s identity or that of other groups or organisations to mislead people.
4. Misinformation & Fake news: Do not share false or misleading information, including medical claims that can’t be backed up or manipulating content with intent to mislead.
5. Defamation: Do not make false statements about others that unjustly harm their reputation.
6. No hate speech: We don’t allow hate speech or the encouragement of violence for any reason. This includes promotion of so-called 'conversion therapy'.
7. Abuse, harassment and trolling: Do not harass people or encourage harassment or abuse of any kind, including threats, degrading statements and making private details public without permission. Do not post or comment solely to offend or annoy. This includes targeted misgendering and deadnaming.
8. The following content is strictly not allowed. Posting this content will result in your account being deleted: Adult content (including pornography), Illegal activity, Graphic content, Child sexual exploitation, Encouraging self-harm, Terrorism.
9. Fraud: Do not attempt to generate traffic or revenue from fake lotteries, sweepstakes, giveaways, phishing links, or spamming. Do not use third-party apps to artificially distort your views, likes and comments.
10. Bot accounts: Bot accounts and other automated feeds must be marked as such, or be deleted. We impose a follow limit of 5,000 profiles and discourage excessive posting.

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