Mastodon.Radio is a space for the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc.

We're not the only amateur radio focused instance, we connect with the servers listed on fediverse.radio and you'll get a very similar experience on any of these servers.

Are you in the Americas? Our "sister-server" mastodon.hams.social is more local-to-you and may be worth a look.

We also offer:

• xmpp
• ntfy
• webring

Mastodon.radio is a safe space for LGBTQ+ people and is entirely funded by its users.

Details of costs and how to donate are on Liberapay

Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!

Amateur radio emoji, Alex Emoji, and the "angry sun" emoji used on this instance were created by @dzuk@weirder.earth

1. We suggest using your radio callsign as your username. If you don't have one yet, plan to change it soon, want to avoid doxing, or just enjoy listening, that's ok too.
2. Please be respectful of others. Their age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, background, preference for transistors over vales, etc. are all _NOT_ reasons to be a twit
3. Anyone is welcome to report inappropriate behaviour, they will be listened to, and action will be taken. This will be anything from a warning, to banning. Moderation decisions will be made using the Paradox of Tolerance.
4. Expect anything you post on mastodon.radio to be public, including direct messages, that way you can never be surprised or embarrassed
5. Any images or videos uploaded to mastodon.radio _MUST_ have an appropriate textual description. If you need help with this, please ask!
6. Your right to free speech does not supersede my right to call you out and kick you out for being a dick
7. No spam, no commercial advertising (occasional personal listings are OK), no sexually explicit or violent media (yes that includes pictures of your gun), no threats of violence.
8. No illegal content - this server is hosted in UK
9. When apply for an account, if you've actually read these rules, please end your "Why do you want to join?" with the phrase "hippo cornflakes"

Are you an educator who wants to use botsin.space for teaching/learning purposes? I'm begging you to contact me at @muffinista@botsin.space -- I can give you an invite code for your students.

This instance exists for people who want to run Mastodon bots. Bots and their humans are expected to follow this Code of Conduct.

If you want to setup an account to get an RSS feed onto Mastodon, please check out feedsin.space.

When you're signing up, you must put the magic word into your signup request to show that you've read this. The magic word is.... spreadsheet

You can learn more about ways to support the costs of this instance.

Please Note: botsin.space is running some custom code to limit posting to the public timeline. Once an account makes a public post, any posts for the next six hours will be set to unlisted. This change exists to allow a certain amount of bot traffic on public feeds, while not polluting the timeline all that much. For context, you can read this toot.

Code of Conduct

NOTE: If you have questions or concerns, feel free to contact me at muffinista@botsin.space, colin@muffin.industries or by emailing colin at muffinlabs.com

• Anyone is welcome to open an account to use either as a personal account, or to run a bot.
• Do not use bots to abuse other people. Bots should punch up, not down.
• Open as many bot accounts as you like, but please do not abuse this privilege! Don't setup a bot farm or something like that.
• If you run a bot here, please be kind to the servers. If the instance starts to bog down, bots that are making excessive API calls will be disabled.
• Please be mindful of the tools that Mastodon provides to mask potentially troubling content from users. If appropriate, please use content warnings, and consider not placing your toots in the public timeline.
• The following types of content are forbidden, and posting them will result in immediate termination of your account:
  • Sexual depictions of children
  • Overt advocation of sexism or racism
  • Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
  • Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
  • Stalking or harassment of other users, both on the instance and anywhere in the fediverse
• The following types of content are also prohibited and can result in your account being silenced, and possibly terminated:
  • Excessive advertising
  • Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
  • Unsolicited mentions of other accounts
  • Excessive spamming of the local timeline
  • Police/Police agency accounts
• Don't create bots that exist only to follow/monitor other accounts, map the fediverse, track users, or other similar behavior.
• Furthermore, your bot might be suspended for things not listed here if the moderators decide it is inappropriate. If you have any questions about potential bots, please feel free to ask.

Here are some more detailed rules for the instance:

Our Goal

This community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Applicability and Scope

This code of conduct applies to all of this community's spaces, including public channels, private channels and direct messages, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the administrators.

Toward a Welcoming and Safe Environment

We hope to create an environment in which diverse individuals can collaborate and interact in a positive and affirming way. Examples of behavior that contributes to creating this sort of environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Focusing on what is best for the overall community
• Showing empathy towards other community members

Anti-Harassment Statement

This community will not tolerate harassment of any kind. Examples of harassment include:

• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, pregnancy status, veteran status, political affiliation, marital status, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity marker. This includes anti-Indigenous/Nativeness and anti-Blackness.
• Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment.
• Deliberate misgendering, using inappropriate pronouns, or use of "dead" or rejected names.
• Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they're not appropriate.
• Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop.
• Threats of violence.
• Incitement of violence towards any individual or group, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
• Deliberate intimidation.
• Stalking or following - online or in the physical world.
• Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
• Sustained disruption of discussion.
• Unwelcome sexual attention.
• Patterns of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.
• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
• Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
• Publication of non-harassing private communication.
• Jokes that resemble the above, such as "hipster racism", still count as harassment even if meant satirically or ironically.

If you have questions or concerns about these issues please feel free to message an admin or ask for an opportunity to explore the issue with a moderator and volunteers.

Reporting

If you think that an account on this instance is violating this Code of Conduct, or is doing something offensive or should be otherwise handled by the administrators, the easiest way to report them is to use the reporting tool that is part of Mastodon. You can do that using the 'Report' tool which is embedded in every toot:

If you would rather not use the reporting tool, if the harassment is happening outside of botsin.space, or if you have any other concerns, please contact the administrators via the methods listed at the top of this page. If the person who is harassing you is on the admin team, they will not be involved in handling or resolving the incident.

The admin team will respond to any complaint as promptly as possible we can. If you do not get a timely response (for example, if no admins are currently online) then please put your personal safety and well-being first, and consider logging out and/or contacting the admins by email at colin at muffinlabs dot com.

This code of conduct applies to our community's spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of our community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by our members, especially the administrators, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from the community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside of our spaces and behavior towards people who are not in this community.

In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.

Enforcement Process

Every code of conduct violation report will be treated with seriousness and care. If a member's immediate safety and security is threatened, an individual admin may take any action that they deem appropriate, up to and including temporarily banning the offender from the community. In less urgent situations, at least two admins will discuss the offense and mutually arrive at a suitable response, which will be shared with the offender privately. Whatever the resolution that they decide upon, the decision of the admins involved in a violation case will be considered final.

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we've received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of our members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the administrators may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from the community and identification of the participant as a harasser to other members. At the discretion of the admins, or by request, one or more of the parties involved may request to discuss the violation and how to avoid similar situations in the future.

Acknowledgements

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Community Covenant (http://community-covenant.net), version 1.0, available at http://community-covenant.net/version/1/0/. The Community Covenant is an open source effort and is built on codes of conduct that came before it, including the Contributor Covenant and the LGBTQ in Tech community code of conduct.

License

Community Covenant by Coraline Ada Ehmke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://community-covenant.net/.

Supporting botsin.space

If you would like to help with the costs of running this instance, you can do that via Patreon, or via Paypal. Thanks!

1. No accounts that promote cryptocurrency
2. No police/military organization accounts
3. No sexual depictions of children
4. No uncurated news bots posting. If you want to see statuses from a newspaper or something like that, check out https://feedsin.space to setup an RSS->fediverse account.
5. No untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content
6. No untagged gore and extremely graphic violence
7. No stalking or harassment of other users
8. Do not use bots to abuse other people. Punch up, not down
9. Respect the standards of the fediverse. If a human would likely add CW to a post, a bot should also add a CW.
10. Your signup request must include the magic word! The magic word is.... spreadsheet
11. No mirrors of someone else's Twitter accounts. If they want to be here, they can create their own account.
12. No interactions with people who don't opt in to the interaction. If you mention another user, they must either follow the bot, or they must've started the interaction themselves.
13. No bots that use ChatGPT, OpenAI or the other big GPT systems. If you're running your own LLM, that's ok. If you think you have a special use case to use a GPT system, feel free to ask if you can make a bot here, but chances are the answer will be no.

Please visit our info site at https://info.tech.lgbt/ for more detailed instance information.

*Due to increased bot signup, manual approval is required. Please write some applicable request text on signup with why you want to join. Submissions that fail to do so will be denied.*

We welcome all marginalized identities. We are explicitly anti-racist, anti-queerphobic, and anti-transphobic. This Mastodon instance is generally for folks who are LGBTQIA+ and Allies with an interest in tech work, academics, or technology in general.

Attributions

Props to @malle_yeno@tech.lgbt for the Mastodon art!

This instance uses Mutant Standard emoji, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Blobhaj emoji by @heatherhorns@plush.city.

Blobfox emoji by Volpeon.

Baba emoji by @ShadowJonathan, adapted from assets from the . Baba is You fandom wiki, under CC BY-SA.

Cybre Heart Emoji by @minty_da@cybre.space

Doom guy emojis by @katnjiapus.

Queer cats, fire, flags, hearts by Zoë Bijl.

Neorat

PICMO, gifted to the server for free by the creator.

Miffy emojis by Justin/Onemuri. Miffy by Dick Bruna

Neobun emojis by Justin/Onemuri.

Code of Conduct

Short Version

We try to handle moderation ASAP, but we may not see reports for several hours. We will get to all reports though!

We're not a free speech absolutist, and there are instances available for that. We're not interested in Nazis, TERFS, or hate speech of any sort, which we will define at our sole discretion as moderators. No homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, racism allowed.

This instance is meant to be a friendly, welcoming space to all who are willing to reciprocate in helping to create that environment.

Long Version

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of tech.lgbt; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:

1. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
   1. Excessive advertising
   2. Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
   3. Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
   4. Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
2. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
   1. Racism or advocation of racism
   2. Sexism or advocation of sexism
   3. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   4. Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
3. The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
   1. Sexual depictions of children
   2. Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
   3. Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
4. Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
   1. Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
   2. Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
   3. Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.

These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.

Content Warnings and Sensitive Media

Our Content Warning (CW) policy is intended to make our server comfortable for our community. We are not trying to silence our community or police discussion, but ask that you consider those who may read your posts when making them.

Content Warnings are a feature of Mastodon that enable you to hide the body of a "toot" (post) behind a line of text. The intended use of this feature is to provide a way to discuss sensitive and/or potentially harmful topics without causing duress or harm to anyone who might stumble upon it, though content warnings may be used for a wide variety of reasons.

Images can be marked as sensitive. This is a feature which hides an image until a warning banner is clicked. Images may be marked as sensitive separately from Content Warnings, though using a Content Warning automatically marks the toot's images as sensitive.

Please note that our sensitive media rules apply to profile photos and headers as well. Since those images cannot be hidden behind sensitive media warnings, they are not allowed to contain content from enforced content warnings.

We cannot enforce content warnings on users from other instances, but can help to manage content that you see when reported to instance moderators.

Please be clear and accurate when labeling content warnings, to ensure that they follow both the letter and spirit of the enforcements that we have.

Above all, try to be polite, and come from a place of mutual respect when discussing content warnings with other. We do not condone tone policing, and want to promote healthy discussion in our community.

This cannot ever be a complete list, and so we want to keep it semi-general, and reserve the right to use the judgement of the moderation team to make decisions in the future.

• Enforced Content Warnings:
  • NSFW/sexual discussion and imagery must be behind descriptive CWs (nudity, sex, kink discussion, etc)
  • Sensitive imagery (please use your best judgement on what content that most other users would find sensitive, such as photos of surgeries, abuse, war, deceased individuals, etc)
• Suggested Content Warnings:
  • Discussion of overtly political (relating to elected or unelected government officials) topics
  • Triggering topics (direct discussion of rape, trauma, abuse, suicide, transphobia, homophobia, etc). The intention is to provide a warning for users who may not want to consume this content, not to silence users who are sharing their negative experiences.
  • Drugs or drug use
  • Advertisements for corporations
  • "Rage" posts and posts using mainly capital letters
• Suggested Sensitive Image Marking
  • Eye contact images
  • Food related images

CryptoCurrency/NFTs

We do not allow the promotion, advertisement, or sale of cryptocurrencies on our instance. Mentioning the existence of cryptocurrencies, linking personal accounts or addresses, and otherwise discussing them in a way that is not intended to sell or advertise a specific cryptocurrency is acceptable. We do not have any association with any cryptocurrency or other monetary transactions that happen within the server.

We do not allow the promotion, advertisement, or sale of NFTs on our instance. We do not allow content from our instance, including content and media uploaded by our community members, to be sold as NFTs.

Staff

This instance is administered by the team of:

• @david
• @ShadowJonathan
• @sudaksis

Moderation support is provided by the hard working team of:

• @bluestarultor
• @deejunfazed
• @diffrentcolours
• @err931
• @ItsCryptic
• @juni
• @murderofescrows

If you would like to directly contact our moderation team, we have an account at @mods, and can be reached via email at mods@tech.lgbt

Legal

DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) Notice

As required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (17 U.S.C. 512 (c)), all notifications of copyright infringement regarding content hosted on tech.lgbt should be sent ONLY to its designated agent.

Wolfinger Law, LLC
4509 Bee Ridge Road Sarasota, FL 34233
dmca@tech.lgbt

Funding

This instance is funded in part by Patreon and Liberapay donations.

Blocked Instances

We maintain a blocklist of instances that we do not federate with. If you believe that an instance should be added to this list, please contact an admin or moderator.

For privacy and safety of our community, we do not comment on most instance blocks that we have in place. We have recently begun sharing details on major/oft commented moderation decisions via @mods@tech.lgbt

The list is visible for logged-in members under the section Moderated servers below. While we understand that not publishing this list for non-members is not fully transparent, we are not trying to scare off potential new members who want to ensure that their friends are not blocked. The only nefarious intent here are those who have used this information when public to harass individuals and the instance as a whole. Bluntly, if those are the people that you want to interact with, you should probably join their instance instead.

This page most recently updated on 20 February 2024

1. Discrimination & Bigotry Won’t Be Tolerated. We're not a free speech absolutist. We're not interested in Nazis, TERFS, or hate speech. Targeted misgendering, deadnaming, or promotion of so-called "conversion therapy" is prohibited.
2. Respect Other Users. This instance is meant to be a friendly, welcoming space to all who are willing to reciprocate in helping to create that environment.
3. Consent is Important in all contexts. If you’re ever unsure, ask first. Use content warnings (CWs) where required.
4. Listen; Don’t Make Excuses. If you’re accused of causing harm, either take some responsibility or ask moderators for help.
5. No Pedophilia or Zoophilia. This includes artistic depictions of characters that cannot give consent.
6. Members under the age of 18 are not permitted to post lewd, explicit, nsfw, or otherwise sexual content. This includes as original posts or in reply to other members, as well as boosting content of this type from their accounts.
7. No direct threats and incitement to violence. Expressing dissatisfaction is fine, but directly stating interest or intent to commit violent harm are not welcome on this server.
8. Use the Report Feature. Our moderators are here to listen and respond to reports.

About Dice Camp

We're a Mastodon server for RPG folks to hang out and talk. Not owned by a billionaire.

We don't want your attention or your clicks. We're not the One TTRPG Network To Rule Them All. Just a place for people who enjoy tabletop RPGs to talk about stuff, not at all limited to games.

Why Join?

There's two parts to that: why Mastodon and why Dice Camp?

Why use Mastodon?

As an open distributed social network Mastodon provides some of the things you might like in a social network but with interests more aligned with your own.

A for-profit social network wants to drive profit through increasing usage and ads as far as possible.

Mastodon isn't owned by anyone. Nobody is going to try to show you ads or maximize engagement.

Why join Dice Camp?

Since Mastodon is distributed you can join any instance and connect to anyone else (except those blocked by admins, more on that below), so it doesn't matter all that much which instance you join. Think of it like email: you could have a GMail address or an Outlook address or both or more than that and still exchange messages with anyone else.

The factors to joining a given server are:

How many people are on the server? General purpose servers may end up with more signups and have trouble staying stable when, say, a billionaire buys Twitter.

Does the server have a topic that relates to your interests? While you can connect with anyone the folks on the same server will generally be easier to discover via trends or the server-wide "local" feed.

Does it have a cool name? Look, there's nothing wrong with choosing the one that sounds the coolest.

1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia.
2. No harassment or dogpiling.
3. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
4. Violent or sexually explicit media must be marked as sensitive when posting.
5. Do not publish others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission.
6. Frequent sale or deal posts must be posted unlisted

• *.ua-fediland.de: limited
• mastodon.social: limited
• *.activitypub-troll.cf: sospeso
• *.misskey-forkbomb.cf: sospeso
• *.repl.co: sospeso
• *.tilvids.com: sospeso
• 10minutepleroma.com: sospeso - Spam
• bae.st: sospeso - Inappropriate content
• baraag.net: sospeso
• beta.birdsite.live: sospeso - Third-party bots
• bgzashtita.es: sospeso - Misinformation
• bird.froth.zone: sospeso - Third-party bots
• birdsite.gabeappleton.me: sospeso - Third-party bots
• birdsite.link: sospeso - Third-party bots
• birdsite.monster: sospeso - Third-party bots
• birdsite.wilde.cloud: sospeso - Third-party bots
• bridge.birb.space: sospeso - Third-party bots
• brighteon.social: sospeso - Conspiracy theories
• bsd.moe: sospeso - Harassment
• catgirl.life: sospeso - Harassment
• cnet.site: sospeso - Harassment
• coom.club: sospeso - Harassment
• cum.desupost.soy: sospeso - Hate speech
• cum.***on: sospeso
• daffodil-11.org: sospeso - Spam
• detroitriotcity.com: sospeso
• dlf.social: sospeso - Inappropriate content
• eientei.org: sospeso - Hate speech
• federated.fun: sospeso
• fedi.app: sospeso - Harassment
• feminism.lgbt: sospeso - Harassment
• freeatlantis.com: sospeso - Misinformation
• freespeechextremist.com: sospeso - Hate speech
• freezepeach.xyz: sospeso - Harassment
• gab.ai: sospeso - Do we even have to explain this one? Harassment, hate speech, etc.
• gab.com: sospeso - Do we even have to explain this one? Harassment, hate speech, etc.
• gameliberty.club: sospeso - Bot that announces blocks
• genderheretics.xyz: sospeso - Transphobes can fuck right off
• gitmo.life: sospeso - Hate speech
• glindr.org: sospeso - Transphobia
• glowers.club: sospeso - Hate speech
• iddqd.social: sospeso - Harassment
• jaeger.website: sospeso - Harassment
• kiwifarms.cc: sospeso - Harassment
• kiwifarms.is: sospeso - Harassment
• kiwifarms.net: sospeso - Harassment
• mastodonhub.com: sospeso - Mirroring other Mastodon accounts without permission
• mouse.services: sospeso - Harassment
• mstdn.foxfam.club: sospeso - Third-party bots
• mugicha.club: sospeso
• nationalist.social: sospeso - The name says it all
• nicecrew.digital: sospeso
• noagendasocial.com: sospeso - Harassment
• pawoo.net: sospeso
• paypig.org: sospeso - Hate speech
• poa.st: sospeso - Hate speech
• rakket.app: sospeso - Hate speech
• rap***.**wn: sospeso - Harassment
• shitpost.cloud: sospeso
• shitpost.poridge.club: sospeso
• shitposter.club: sospeso - Harassment
• shortstacksran.ch: sospeso
• sinblr.com: sospeso - Spam
• solagg.com: sospeso - Spam
• spinster.xyz: sospeso - Transphobia
• threads.net: sospeso - Based on community polling and discussion.
• toot.love: sospeso - Harassment
• truthsocial.co.in: sospeso
• twitter.1d4.us: sospeso - Third-party bots
• twitter.activitypub.actor: sospeso - Third-party bots
• twtr.carnivore.social: sospeso - Third-party bots
• twtr.plus: sospeso - Third-party bots
• twtr.vrij.social: sospeso - Third-party bots
• twtr.wappie.land: sospeso - Third-party bots
• wagesofsinisdeath.com: sospeso - Harassment
• waifu.social: sospeso - Harassment
• waifuappreciation.club: sospeso - Harassment
• weedis.life: sospeso - Spam
• workers.dev: sospeso - Botnet
• yggdrasil.social: sospeso - Hate speech

About Fediscience.org

FediScience is a social network for publishing scientists. Everyone is welcome to join from PhD student to professor, as well as researchers from outside of academia. You are welcome to stay afterwards, but it is also easy to change to another server.

There will be a lot of science talk on this server, but there is no need to only talk science.

This site is owned and operated by the charitable association FediScience e.V. and other volunteers from the FediScience community.

Imprint / Impressum

FediScience e.V.
Bahnhofstraße 22
85354 Freising
08161 / 2408483
support@fediscience.org

FediScience e.V. is registered in Munich, Germany
Registration no: VR 240410

Board members:
Frank Sonntag (chair & treasurer)
Christian Meesters (deputy)
Tatjana Scheffler (secretary)
Bahnhofstraße 22
85354 Freising
08161 / 2408483
support@fediscience.org

About the registration process

FediScience is a community for active scientists. Establishing the exact definition of "science" and who is actively contributing to it is a long-standing open problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem).

Therefore, we need to fix a criterium. We have opted to assume that researchers currently publishing in scientific journals are active scientists, knowing the potential limitations of this definition. To register on FediScience, you'll need to provide us with evidence that you are working as a publishing scientist or aspiring to be one, by sending us a link to your ORCID, academic web page, or similar where we can see your contributions. We will not save or use this information for anything other than the verification process. For students or junior researchers who have not yet published a paper - no problem! Just explain your situation. It will help us if you can add a link where we can see that you are affiliated with a research institution.

Other edge cases will be moderated on an individual basis. If you really think that you are a good match for the FediScience community, please apply and carefully explain your situation.

Code of conduct

As many people as possible should feel welcome at FediScience, so please follow the code of conduct.

• You do not have to give your name, but please tell us about your expertise and interests in your bio and introduce yourself using the #introductions hashtag.
• Don’t do anything that’s illegal in Germany or where you live.
• We want to be inclusive; do not engage in exclusionary behaviour or language. Consider not only the current interaction, but how it would be if your behaviour were common.
• Don’t harass people. Respect it if people want to stop an interaction. Sexual attention can constitute harassment, even if it wasn’t intended to cause upset.
• Please relax. Don’t assume you know better than the person you’re talking to.

Users violating these rules may have their accounts suspended and will not be welcome to take part any more.

If you are subject to or observe any harassment, or have any other concerns, please report the toot concerned or message a moderator. Reports will be dealt with discreetly and in confidence.

We want everyone to have a great time and treat each other with respect.

Use of the Content Warning (CW) feature

Mastodon has Content Warnings, please use them. They can be used to collapse a long (series) of messages, but also to hide topics some may find upsetting, especially when people would not expect this kind of content in your stream, e.g., when you are not talking about your area of expertise.

At the bottom of the message editor you can click the "CW" button; anything in the small warning field above your larger message editor field will be visible. The reader will have to click on "Show more" to see the full message.

Use of bots and cross-posters

It is fine to use apps or services which generate toots automatically, but please make sure that you have them under control: make sure they are relevant, try to limit it to a few posts a day. Mark the account as bot. When using bots and cross-posters visit FediScience regularly, if only to interact with replies.

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Multiple people have kindly offered to support FediScience financially and since we are getting so many new people onboard that we can make use of the funds to support the infrastructure and moderation costs.

Liberapay is a not-for-profit financed by donations itself.

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2. Discrimination in any form (including, but not limited to sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia...) is strictly prohibited on the platform.
3. Harassment, doxxing, or other abusive practices are not allowed.
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5. The intentional spreading of disinformation (“fake news”) is not allowed on the platform.
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