An instance aimed at techies and engineers of all types within the furry fandom, but anyone is welcome. We're an LGBTQ+ friendly community and aiming to offer a safe space for our users.

Important!

Sign-ups currently require admin approval, unless you have an invite link from an existing user.

Please include if you're a furry and / or engineer in your join reason, and why the instance is appealing to you or just a link to an existing social media account. (Funny messages encouraged, but not required!)

Most approvals will take a few hours, but if your account is still pending, feel free to reach out to @Crashdoom on Telegram.

If your sign-up is rejected, your join reason may have looked like a bot / AI response, but this does not preclude you from signing up again.

"Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!"

-Crashdoom

This instance is for engineers of all types within the furry fandom! We're friendly towards members of the LGBTQ+ community and aiming to offer a safe space for our users.

We do not federate with fascist instances and do not tolerate fascist users.

furry.engineer is part of the pawb.social network!

Staff Team

• @Crashdoom - Owner / Head Admin
• @Natebluehooves - Administrator (SysAdmin)
• @Doridian - Administrator
• @itsOasus - Administrator
• @herzenschein - Moderator
• @southernwolf - Moderator
• @fyrezard - Moderator

Moderation / Content Policies

Network Policy

We are part of pawb.social network. Any user or instance found to violate our content policies will be suspended from all instances within the pawb.social network.

Federation Policy

We are an open-first instance, however in cases where an instance had been identified as being, indifferent to, permissive of, or actively encouraging abusive conduct, that instance will be blocked from federation.

User Conduct Policy

In the hopefully unlikely event that a user breaks the rules, the offending content will be removed and the user suspended. For harassment, discrimination, or illegal activity, the user's account will be terminated.

User Generated Content

We ask that all profile content (avatar, header, display name, bio, etc.) are completely safe, without any explicit or suggestive content.

Illegal content, or content depicting hate symbolism or iconography, will be removed and result in termination of the offending user.

Report System

Please report posts that make you feel uncomfortable, break the rules, or you otherwise think should be brought to our attention. You will never be penalized for using the report system in good faith.

Emoji Attribution

These are the talented artists that created the emojis used on furry.engineer. If you want to request removal of any emojis created by you, or an entity you represent, please contact us via the email above.

Emojis Attribution Crashdoom prefixed emojis madspacekitty (Fiverr) Mutant Standard emoji Licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License Typescript logo © Microsoft wlf, drgn, fox, gphn, Neocat, and Neofox by Volpeon Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License Blobfox and vlpn by Volpeon Licensed under Apache License, 2.0 Blobhaj by heatherhorns Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License neodog by moonrabbits Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License Neobot by SymTrkl Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License

Donate

While donations are not expected or required, if you want to help towards our hosting, hardware, and upgrades, you can over at Ko-fi!

1. Rule #1 – Illegal Content or Conduct
2. Rule #2 – Discriminatory Conduct
3. Rule #3 – Stalking and Harassment
4. Rule #4 – Misinformation and Deceptive Content
5. Rule #5 – Missing Content Warning
6. Rule #5.2 – Sensitive Content in Content Warning Message
7. Rule #6 – No Spam or Advertising
8. Rule #7 – Disengage and Report Abuse
9. Rule #8.1 – Account / Post Language Missing
10. Rule #8.2 – Account Impersonation
11. Rule #8.3 – Unmarked Bot Account
12. Rule #8.4 – Unauthorized Brand / Government Accounts
13. Rule #8.5 – Bypassing Suspension
14. Rule #8.6 – Prohibited Avatar / Header Image
15. Full Code of Conduct

1. bdsm-jp.club: limitation
2. fedi.kyuties.rocks: suspension
3. fediforum.channel.org: suspension
4. fediverse.xavin.net: suspension
5. fruef.social: suspension
6. jubi.life: suspension
7. kamalaharriswin.channel.org: suspension
8. mastodon.art: suspension
9. monads.online: suspension
10. monsterfuckers.online: suspension
11. mytter.jp: suspension
12. newsmast.channel.org: suspension
13. octodon.social: suspension
14. rage.love: limitation
15. social.ah-web.org: suspension
16. wedistribute.channel.org: suspension

fediscience.org is a social network for scientists run by FediScience e.V., an international association dedicated to promoting scientific communication.

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.

Support Mastodon and FediScience

The best way to help is to spread the word! If you starting using Mastodon and find it useful then help out by telling other people about it.

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.

1. When signing up, you need to verify you're a scientist! Please provide a link to your ORCID, Scholar, or academic webpage, showing your recent publications in the 'Why do you want to join?' box on the next page. (Junior) researchers without publications, use this box to tell us why you want to join.
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.
4. Posting of content illegal in Germany or the EU is not allowed.
5. The intentional spreading of disinformation (“fake news”) is not allowed on the platform.
6. No sexually explicit or violent content allowed.
7. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
8. Promotion of pseudoscience is also not allowed.
9. Respect the Fediverse etiquette: use content warnings for sensitive content and describe your uploaded images using alt text.
10. So that we can moderate the instance, content has to be in a language for which free machine translation (e.g. Deepl.com) is available.
11. Be kind to your peers! Treat others with empathy and respect.

1. mytter.jp: suspension

Do you love retro games, tech, music or movies? Are you a content creator who focuses on retro content? Tired of seeing political hot takes flood your local timeline? Welcome to your Fediverse home!

Welcome to Retro Gaiden, the best retro-themed Mastodon server on the internet! I hope you enjoy this site and connect with other retro gaming enthusiasts!

Feeling nostalgic? This is the perfect place for discussing the legendary games, tech, movies, music and culture of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. This instance is visually unlike any other Mastodon server and contains over 500 custom emojis 🕹️

Do you stream or make other retro gaming content? Post your content here to expand your audience and connect with others who share your passion!

Do you want a custom badge on your Retro Gaiden profile? See this page for details.

Join Retro Gaiden chat on Matrix or Armada

Download the Retro Gaiden Vivaldi theme here

--- IMPORTANT NOTE ---

In order to foster the best retro content and reduce server storage usage, Retro Gaiden only retains data from other Fediverse servers for a period of 7 days. Remember this when bookmarking posts from other servers, as they will disappear. I suggest visiting the original post then adding it as a bookmark in your browser as a workaround.

You can support Retro Gaiden by doing any of the following:

1. Patreon membership
2. Odysee membership
3. Donate (PayPal)
4. Buy Merch
5. Donate crypto to Bitcoin (BTC) address:

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New sign ups are required to enter a reason for joining. This is to keep bots from infesting the server. Sign ups are approved within 24 hours.

Thank you for reading this, and have an awesome day!

1. Be respectful to others
2. No NSFW content
3. No political posts in the Retro Gaiden local timeline
4. No spamming
5. No posting about your sexual preferences in the Retro Gaiden local timeline
6. Zero tolerance for pedophilia

1. apobangpo.space: suspension
2. eldritch.cafe: suspension
3. fandom.garden: limitation
4. left-tusk.com: suspension
5. mastodon.art: suspension
6. mastodon.guerilla.studio: suspension

ITU fediverse server, now official and available to all ITU staff.

1. Condensed Server Rules – for the impatient 1. The ITU Mastodon server is for employees only. 2. Posts may be removed, edited or rejected if violating the code of conduct. 3. Users may be banned for inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful behaviours.
2. Condensed Server Rules - Part 2 4. No sexualized language or imagery; no unwelcome sexual attention or advances 5. No trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, or personal or political attacks 6. No public or private harassment
3. Condensed Server Rules - Part 3 7. No publishing of others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address 8. No conduct which is inappropriate in a professional setting
4. Full Code of Conduct: https://social.itu.dk/social.itu.dk.CoC.pdf

A place for people that like LEDs. LEDs.social is hosted by ElectroMage.

LEDs.social

A place for people that like LEDs. LEDs.social is hosted by ElectroMage.

Please be kind and follow the rules.

We use masto.host to run this service. If you are comfortable doing so, consider donating to help offset the hosting costs.

Donate via PayPal to help fund this instance

Donate via the ElectroMage shop

LEDs.social is hosted by ElectroMage.

1. This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion Please treat this server with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.
2. Improve the Discussion The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.
3. Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid: Name-calling Ad hominem attacks Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content Knee-jerk contradiction
4. Always Be Civil Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech. Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit. Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone. Don’t post spam.

A comfy, non-toxic, and inclusive Anime/Manga/Japanese Media fandom and Japanese Media/Culture Content Creators (Bloggers/Artists/Video Creators/Podcasters/etc.) Mastodon Server

Please read the about page and rules in its entirety before joining.

For faster support or questions about our Mastodon server or any of our services, users are encouraged to file a ticket at our helpdesk instead of using the support email.

Complete rules can also be read here or in the rules section.

Registrations using temporary/disposable emails are not allowed, and your account will be suspended when discovered as they are usually tied to accounts that post SPAM or break rules upon joining. You may use email alias provided by your email provider like iCloud Hide My Email, Simplelogin, etc as an alternative.

Proton Mail Users (proton.me): Due to abuse by bots, any users that are using Protonmail will require approval for your account by a moderator before your account becomes active. If your account requires approval, submit a ticket with social profiles so we can vet them. See below for examples. Alternatively, use a different email service.

Registration using Tor relays are not possible due to abuse/SPAM accounts. If you need to register through Tor relay, create a ticket to request an invite link. You must provide additional information like social profiles, website/blog you own, portfolio, or AniList/Kitsu/MyAnimeList profile for vetting.

Please fill your profile/add profile pic after registering We may freeze your account and ask for additional information like social profiles, website/blog you own, portfolio, or AniList/Kitsu/MyAnimeList profile for newly signed up accounts with no activity with a completely blank profile within 1 week and the profile does not bring any social profiles in the search results. Blank profiles may be completely deleted without any prior notice.

Note; On certain IP ranges, your account may require approval due to spam bots abusing that IP range. You will be notified after signup if you require account approval from our mod team. To expedite your account approval, send your social profiles (e.g. Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Fediverse profile from a non-blocked server, AniList/MyAnimeList/Kitsu/Anime-Planet, or website). Self-approvals for users requiring approvals with a MyAnimeList or AniList account is coming soon.

Used to Twitter? Sharkey (a soft fork of Misskey) might be easier to use if you don't depend on certain Mastodon clients (e.g. Ivory)/auto sharing plugins (Jetpack Social Mastodon) or want the features like Quote posts and full text search. Our Sharkey/Misskey server (sister server) is at sakurajima.social. However, this Mastodon server is the main server.

🔰New to Mastodon? Watch this How to Video on the Basics of Mastodon🔰

Migrating your account to this server? Learn how to migrate your followers.. For our Misskey/Sharkey server, see this guide

A list of Anime Content Creators that are on Mastodon is here

If you are a blogger, you can auto-share your posts. Watch this video to learn how to set it up.

About us

Sakurajima (桜島, さくらじま, Cherry Blossom Island) is a Mastodon server for the English Japanese-media and Anime/Manga/Japanese Media artist/blogging/video creator/podcaster/etc and fandom community. This is the place to talk about anime, manga, light novels, video games, and other Japanese media in a comfy and inclusive place. Of course, you can talk about anything as long it doesn't break the rules. This place also gives content creators (bloggers, podcasters, and video creators) a place to share their content. All are in a safe place, free from hate, trolls, harassment, extremist ideologues, and illegal content.

This is a highly moderated server (in regards to moderating against hate speech, harassment, misinformation, and illegal content) to keep the community safe and operated by an Asian-American who is on the Progressive Left. We only defederate servers if they are deemed a high risk (hate speech/spam/trolling risk/harassment/illegal content) or certainly break our rules. Otherwise, we moderate rule breaking posts if reported by users or discovered by moderation staff. See the moderation section for details. Note that we only block servers if it breaks our TOS, not for any other reason.

Note: To use this server, your account must be related in Japanese media/culture in some way. While it's okay to post non-Japanese media/culture related stuff on this server, completely non-related accounts (users who have no interest in Japanese media/culture or related like Korean/Chinese media) may not join this server. We may ask you to migrate to another server if your account does not meet these requirements, but it won’t result in account suspension.

Note Federating with Sakurajima.moe is not guaranteed for servers that are not following the Mastodon Covenant or not listed on joinsharkey.org. Links between federated servers are temporary and may change or disappear at any time. We will block, suspend, or silence any server which permits any of the content or behavior prohibited by this server.

See the about page on our website for more information

Mascot: Hoshino Aiko (星野愛子） Header image is taken by James M, (c)2024 (chikorita157) in Washington DC. Do not use for AI.

Alt Text:

日本語：写真はタイダルベイスンで日本的な石パゴダがあって、桜は満開しています。 English: Photo shows a Japanese style stone Pagoda in the Tidal Basin and Cherry Blossoms in full bloom.

Main Features

• 3000 Character Post Limit (matches our Misskey/Sharkey server)
• Glitch-Soc features like formatted toots, doodle, collapsible toots, etc.
• Anime Custom Emojis and Emoji Reactions (can be done by clicking the + button on posts)
• Bunch of custom themes (more coming soon)
• Better moderation than the big servers with a comfy and non-toxic atmosphere.
• Access to Elk, a Twitter-like web client and Birdsite for Mastodon theme to make the transition easier.
• Access to Akkoma-fe, which provides the Akkoma frontend, but working on Mastodon made possible by Essem.
• Access to Forums. (Forums can use the same account as Mastodon)
• Full text search for personal, boosted, and favorited toots along with public toots from opt-in users (Mastodon 4.2.0+, Firefish 1.0.4+, Sharkey).
• Ability to post media along side with polls.
• Ability to insert GIFs using the Tennor Gif Picker
• Tumblr Style Quote Toots, compatible with Misskey and Akkoma (cherrypicked from Treehouse fork)
• Bubble Timeline
• Ability to upload up to 8 pieces of media in one post

We are entirely ad-free and depend on users like you. While optional, donations allow us to offset the costs of running this service. Total cost breakdowns can be seen on our website

• Paypal
• Patreon
• Ko-fi

Learn about this server and get updates on our server at our WordPress Blog or following the hashtag, #sakurajimainfo. You can follow @sakurajima@sakurajima.moe for server updates as well.

Statuses of all our services can be seen at https://status.joinsakurajima.org/status/sakurajima

This server is hosted at ReliableSite and Object Storage from Linode in New Jersey.

In addition, we run a slightly modified version of the Urusai. social's fork can be seen here.

We are using neatchee's fork of Mastodon Glitch with our customizations, and it may include bleeding edge (and bugs along with it) features. So please let @neatchee@urusai.social know if you encounter any issues.

Relay Information

Sakurajima has a private relay containing only servers the owner has trust with and the server owners agreeing to join. Here is a list of servers that are in our private relay.

• sakurajima.moe (main Mastodon server)
• sakurajima.social (our Misskey/Sharkey/Sakurakey server)
• urusai.social (our friends, Anime-themed Mastodon server)

Don't ask to join, the owner will only ask if you want to join, and the server must already be following the Mastodon Covenant and must be Japan or Japanese Culture related.

Clients

Suppose you find the default web interface difficult. Once you register an account, you can use a third-party client instead of the Mastodon web interface. To log in to your account in these apps, specify "https://sakurajima.moe" as the server server to log in.

Official Mastodon client is not recommended due to it lacking essential features. However, suppose you are using a Mac or any IOS device. In that case, I can vouch for Ivory since I use that regularly.

Web

• Elk Recommended
• Pinafore - Unsupported as of January 2023

iOS

• Ivory
• Ice Cubes
• Metatext
• Amarok
• Toot!
• Mast

Android

• Tusky
• Subway Tooter
• Fedilab

Mac

• Ivory
• Mastonaut

Mastodon Covenant

This server complies with the covenant. The user data is backed up daily (excluding media, as that, is stored in Object Storage at Linode) via daily backups made by Xen Orchestra, which are stored in an offsite location. Database backups are stored on another server. Any backups to the external server are also backed up at Backblaze.

We have a zero tolerance policy against hate speech and harassment. See the moderation section.

Moderation

See Server Rules page or rules section for the most up to date information on rules and enforcement.

Block list is only viewable at our main website and not search engine discoverable. The list is for informational purposes and not the most up to date as this is only updated once a month. The list is not viewable here due to a tool used to scrape the list used for nefarious purposes.

For servers that follow the Mastodon Covenant, we will moderate only by user basis as they are required to moderate against hate speech and harassment. These servers will always be on the allowlist (but can be limited/silenced due to spam-bot attacks).

Otherwise, we will silence (if the server’s administrator interacted with bad servers with rule breaking interactions, but don’t post rule breaking content) or if the contents will surely break the rules, defederate. To avoid getting silenced/defederated, block all Fedinuke servers, which are considered worst of the worst and ensure your server is moderated sufficiently.

Note that edgy behavior, or skirting the lines of being a troll will most likely violate our rules, especially in regards to hate speech, harassment, and abusive behavior. This behavior is highly discouraged. If you planning on enganging in this behavior, it’s recommended to find another server.

In addition, temporary or temporal accounts (joining, deleting, and joining again) is highly discouraged as this server is community driven and such behavior may be suspicious, especially if a user breaks rules. If this behavior is detected, you may be limited from joining this server unless approved by a moderator.

Note that we do not remove any blocks unless it's by error (evidence is required to prove this), which is unlikely as we use trusted sources for block lists. server owners may appeal, but substantial evidence is required and we will audit your server. If we deem the block as legitimate, we will not answer your request.

Blocklist Explanation

Federates with the usual suspects/Alt-fedi - used when an instance federates with, associates with, and shares the culture of, instances that don't moderate (and in many cases, actively support) things like harassment, bigotry, hate speech, trolling, far-right ideologies, and generally abusive behavior. Thus, behavior that will break the Mastodon Covenant regarding hate speech and harassment. Sites are considered alt-fedi when the admin made three TOS breaking interactions (e.g. boosting or replying to hate speech) with Fedinuke sites.

DNI - 'Do Not Interact'; instance hosts illegal content such as CSAM, loli (on non-Japanese servers, for Japanese servers, this is handled by a per user basis and we use text/hash tags filters), pedophilia, etc. If you want to verify these blocks, proceed with caution; use a VPN or an anonymous browsing service like Tor, and purge your cache afterwards.

Fedinuked - Considered worst of the worst servers, which contains hate speech, extremist content, and harassment, which of course violates our TOS. Receipts are available here.

Sources we used in the consideration of adding servers to our block list: Fedinuke and new additions from pleroma.envs.net. No block lists are automatically imported, we manually inspect them before they get added to the list.

On the moderation list, there are two type of blocks, Limited/Silenced and Suspended.

Limited/Silenced - You can follow users from this server, but all messages from this server will not show up on the federated timeline, hashtag results, and search. You will not receive any notifications or direct messages from Limited/Silenced servers. You need to see the profile directly or follow a user from that server to appear on your Home timeline.

Suspended - No messages will be exchanged with this server. It’s not possible to follow users from suspended servers nor posts from this server will appear on this server.

Statement on Threads and Bluesky

Sakurajima does not intend to federate with Threads due to privacy, safety concerns, and moderation terms allowing hate speech, which is prohibited in our Terms of Service. Meta/Facebook have proven to act in bad faith. For safety reason, Threads will not be allowed.

Note that Sakurajima is not part of the “Fedipact” and we don’t intend to despite opposing federation with Threads.

Bluesky Bridges are allowed, but to use it, you need to opt-in. However, Nostr bridges are prohibited. Note that we do not operate any bridges and you need to use your due-diligence before using them. However, any accounts that are from the bridge that breaks our rules will be dealt with accordingly.

Moderation Team

Administrator

@chikorita157 (owner)

Moderators

@NaraMoore

@kbnet

Backup Admin (Technical Only, no moderation powers)

@maadsharp

Server Exceptions to Rule 4

On our servers, we use reject patterns on terms relating to loli/shouta and reject certain hashtags relating to loli and Shouta. This means that most posts containing loli/shouta will never show up on the server. Anything that is not caught by the reject patterns and hashtag rejections that contain loli/shouta will be limited (removed from the public timeline) unless deemed obscene by US Law. Since this is a Japanese-media centric fandom server, we will only make an exception for the following servers (not an exhaustive list):

• Misskey.io
• Misskey.art
• Misskey.design
• mstdn.jp
• fedibird.com
• sushi.ski

Note: Pawoo is defederated due to rampant instances of CSAM.

We do not allow Lolicon/Shouta due to legality issues. This refers to sexual drawings involving child or child-like characters or 2D CSAM. An artwork is considered lolicon/shoutacon if it meets these criteria:

The individual appears underage, or the character in the source material is underage. (This can be chronological age or looks. i.e., a well-endowed 12-year-old is still loli, and so is a flat-chested 1000-year-old dragon.). Underaged is referred to characters who have not went through puberty, e.g. 14 years or younger.

And has at least one of the following:

1. Bare genitals or breasts.
2. Reveal of undergarments, i.e., panties or bra for girls or underwear for boys. Does not include swimsuits, as long it doesn't violate #1.
3. The character is in a sexual posture toward that person. In other words, the loli/shouta could be dressed appropriately but in an image where other individuals exhibit sexual behavior toward them.
4. Anything that is meant to be sexually suggestive. (up to moderator to determine)

This rule exception exists since filters aren’t prefect and some of these posts will still get through. Real life depictions (including 2D drawing based on real people), and those images generated with Artificial Intelligence will be considered as CSAM. Servers that are not in this list would get handled normally.

Actual CSAM content (including AI generated) is still prohibited, regardless if users are on the servers mentioned on this list. Boosting/Favoriting/Reacting to lolicon/shouta content will result in a warning and/or ban. Any username that contains terms related to lolicon and shouta will be suspended immediately.

Teenaged Fictional Characters

Depictions of Teenaged Fictional characters are allowed whether its SFW affectionate or NSFW. However, they must follow these guidelines:

• Fictional characters only, no real life depictions. Must be aged 16 (age of consent) or older.
• For NSFW, the character must be 16 of age or older. If you want to be on the safe side, consider aging the character up to 18 years of age or add a disclaimer that all characters depicted in this work are age 18 or older. Avoid age specific clothing if you decide to age the characters up to 18.
• For NSFW works, all characters must be past puberty, no underaged appearance (e.g. flat-chested 1000-year-old dragon is considered underaged). Underaged refers to characters and people under the age of consent of 16 and/or have a child-like appearance (e.g. loli/shouta).

In short, do not post anything that you don’t see in Anime in regards to anime involving characters in high school, especially in fanservice anime. If you are not sure if the art work or anime screenshot is appropriate, ask a moderator first.

Automated Posting

While bots are allowed, note that your bot can only make up to 4 public automated posts in an hour (1 post every 25 minutes). No more than 16 unlisted posts in an hour. No repetitive posting (posting the same thing repeatedly) is allowed for public posting, if repetitive, keep it unlisted.

If you flood the local timeline, we may limit/suspend your account temporarily and you may appeal once you resolve the outstanding issues.

Note: This rule does not apply to apps that auto-shares blog posts or RSS feeds. Non automated posts made does not count towards this limit either. Bots that Mirror Twitter/X accounts are prohibited.

Note: We do not allow bots that solely share only AI content (e.g. bots that share AI generated images or powered by ChatGPT, which includes AI agents or bots automated by AI).

Artificial Intelligence Training and Content Ownership

Training of content from our users to train LLM (Large Language Model) or any generative Artificial Intelligence models are strictly prohibited. We block access to all known bots associated with Artificial Intelligence training. Any user who creates an account for the sole purpose of training models will be suspended.

User retain the ownership of their content, but grant a royalty-free, revokable license for sole purpose of displaying content on our servers to other users who use the service as long it's stored on the server. However, it won’t be used for any other purposes.

AI Agents are prohibited from signing up on any of our services. If they successfully manage to sign up and discovered or contact us on approving their account, they are required to pay a $100 administration fee for having to deal with their slop created by the agent and their account will be suspended. The fee must be paid in 30 days of issuance of the invoice. If not paid, the owner of the AI agent will be legally liable.

Content Warnings

Content warnings (CW) allows users to hide suggestive or potentially triggering content. This requires the user to hide the content by default. If thee user wants to view it, they can click the button to show it.

The following requires a CW and sensitive always:

• Sexual themes (including nudity) or content
• Violent themes or content, blood and gore
• Content that contains self-harm

Suggested, but not required, or at least tagged (for purposes of filtering):

• Political current events such as elections and government actions (normally abbreviated to 'pol' along with the country/region, ie. 'UKpol', 'DEpol', etc.)
• Potentially triggering Mental Health topics (normally abbreviated to 'mh'). Many of our members come here to discuss their mental health journey, and we seek to be as welcoming and open as possible, but for the sake of other users: please CW references to self harm, suicide, helplessness and other moods and behaviours that may be contagious or trigger people in recovery
• Alcohol ('alc') and drugs
• Themes or content about abuse
• Common phobias (Like certain animals such as snakes and insects.)
• Spoilers (in regards to source material not covered in an anime or for an episode that just aired)
• Long posts or posts with multiple parts (please also use the 'unlisted' privacy setting for posts after the first in a thread, so that the local timeline doesn't get flooded)
• Content made with generative tools like neural networks ("AI") and dissociated press/ebooks bot-style Markov chains that are designed primarily to imitate art or communication made by people. These can cause an uncanny-valley effect and can be distressing or frustrating when presented without warning. Additionally, AI generated content (text and image) must be tagged, no exceptions.

Please do not demand people to CW content, especially if it’s not required by the rules, this is the moderators job. We will send a DM asking the content to be CW’d.

Creator and Business Accounts

All creator (that primarily/regularly share creations) and business accounts must be Japanese Media/culture related or inspired. Any account that is created that falls outside will be suspended immediately and appeals will be rejected. No Exceptions. This rule does not apply to individual accounts, except if the user is creating an account for a business.

Business accounts can only be from a small business. If you are a creating an account for a medium/big business, please use a different instance as we do not have the capacity to host you.

So what kind of Japanese-related content is acceptable under this rule? If you create one of the following, you can create an account here (The list is exhaustive, but doesn't contain everything):

• Blogging/Podcasting/Creating Videos about Japanese media and/or culture
• Creating fan-art/anime-styled artwork (including OCs)
• VTubing (including creating models)
• Vocaloid/Voiceroid (works created with Vocaloid, Cevio Ai, SynthV, Voiceroid, Voicepeak, etc)
• Fanfiction or fiction (based off Japanese works or Japanese inspired)
• Any small business selling Japanese goods.
• Japanese inspired video games, RPG Maker or visual novels.
• Cosplay, and other creations involving Japanese media or Japanese inspired.
• Fansubbing or translation of unlicensed works.

The above does not apply to non-creators.

This excludes any creators that primarily create content using AI. Any creator that use their account to promote content solely using AI is prohibited from creating an account on this server.

All Other Users

This is a fandom server for Eastern Asian Media and culture, primarily Japanese, but people with interest in Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean media and culture may join as well. For users who don't have any interest in the following may not join this server. If the account is completely unrelated, theirs, his or her account may be suspended instantly.

No exceptions will be made. (This applies to all new accounts made on September 2026 or later)

Impersonation and Parody Accounts

Accounts for famous people or creator requires identification (social profiles, website, or other identification) and impersonating someone is strictly prohibited. Users suspected of impersonating someone will be asked by a moderator for proof of identification. If the user does not comply in 48 hours or the moderator finds that the user account is not legitimate, the account will be suspended.

We do not allow parody accounts hosted here. Any that are created here will be suspended.

Server Specs

This server runs on a 32 GB virtual server with 4 cores and 250 GB of storage virtual server running on XCP-NG. The host machine uses a Ryzen 5600X 6-core, 12-threads processor with 128 GB of memory and a 1 TB SSD hosted at Reliablesite in New Jersey. Media storage is stored on Linode's Object Storage in the New Jersey location

ElasticSearch server runs on a 16 GB virtual server with 80 GB of storage, which also hosts the Meilisearch server for Sakurajima Social.

Credits

Blobfox, BunHD, Drgn, Fox, Raccoon, gphn,neocat, neofox Emojis by Volpeon

Meowmoji from blobs.gg. Some emojis from urusai.social and Akko.wtf.

Spyxfamily Emotes by ArtzenAz

Firefish Emojis by @magi@minazukey.uk

Neogob by @PrimaveraZY@sakurajima.social.

Miffy, and Neobunby @eppa@cyberpunk.lol

The modern vanilla versions use CSS from the Mastodon Modern by Freeplay

Mastodon-bird-ui theme by ronilaukkarinen

Badge images are generated with Picrew created by ももいろね (momirune) with the もっとももいろね式美少女メーカー

Some Emoji packs are from absturztau.be, which include:

• asuka emojis provided by gakamine
• Emojis of Elaina from Wandering Witch. Thanks, Seri
• Show by Rock emojis made by enigmatico

DMCA Takedowns

If you find infringing content that comes from our users (@sakurajima.moe, @sakurajima.social), send your DMCA takedown request to this server Admin email address. Make sure your takedown notice is valid and not covered under fair use.

If the address after the @ symbol does not match this server's, you must go to that website to file a DMCA takedown request. Unfortunately, we can't take down the original post.

Our server has a registered DMCA-designated agent (registration number: DMCA-1044141)

1. You may not harass/bully people, incite violence, and/or post hate speech (e.g. racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc)
2. Do not post misinformation anything advocating extremist movements
3. Do not post images associated with hate movements, extremist ideologies or groups
4. NSFW content must be tagged approprately with content warning applied or marked as sensitive. No posting of underaged sexual-explicit content (real life/CSAM/CSEM and lolicon/shotacon) is allowed. This rule is handled differently for servers on the exception list, see about page.
5. Properly credit artwork that you didn’t create and AI content must be tagged. No accounts that solely posts AI.
6. Do not post SPAM, links to scam sites, pirated materials, phishing sites, or websites that break federal laws.
7. By using this service, you are expected to follow the laws of the United States of America. Refrain from posting anything that may break federal laws.
8. No mini-modding. If you see any post break the rules, report the post instead.
9. Sensitive content (e.g. violence, blood/gore, NSFW, self harm) should be put behind a content warning or mark sensitive.
10. Creator accounts must be Japanese media/culture related or inspired. This rule does not apply to non-creators. See about page for full details
11. You may operate bots, but they must follow our rules and must be Japanese Media related. No AI powered or AI Agent bots allowed.
12. No impersonation accounts are allowed (of any creator or famous people) without proper identification.
13. Not your wank bank. Accounts with zero community interaction without a filled profile that only follow porn accounts will be banned.
14. Respect other users' boundaries.
15. Temporary/Temporal Accounts are not allowed. This includes creating accounts with temporary email services.
16. All accounts has to be related to/have interest in Asian media or Culture (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese).

1. jubi.life: suspension
2. mytter.jp: suspension

A small regional Mastodon instance for those in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas. Local news, commentary, and conversation.

General Information

DMV.Community Wiki

DMV.Community is a small regional Mastodon instance for those in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas. A place for local news, sports, politics, events, and general discussion.

We fully subscribe to and comply with the Mastodon Server Covenant. A number of instance blocks are implemented to comply with the principles of the covenant. It is my top priority that this is a safe and friendly space for members from all walks of life.

This server depends on your donations to keep it running!

Donate at Ko-fi or use the widget below:

Detailed rules

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

The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:

• Excessive advertising or self-promotion (including but not limited to crypto ponzi schemes or other MLM scams)
• Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
• Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
• Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions

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:

• Racism or advocation of racism
• Sexism or advocation of sexism
• Casteism or advocation of casteism
• Transphobia, homophobia, discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
• Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
• Spreading disinformation or conspiracy theories that undermine public health

The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:

• Sexual depictions of children
• Content illegal in the United States (where dmv.community is hosted)
• Holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
• Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Most of our rules are forked from mas.to.

Media Retention

We currently keep local media files for up to 30 days or until the user deletes it.

DMCA policy

This Digital Millennium Copyright Act policy (“Policy”) applies to the dmv.community website (“Website” or “Service”) and any of its related products and services (collectively, “Services”) and outlines how this Website operator (“Operator”, “we”, “us” or “our”) addresses copyright infringement notifications and how you (“you” or “your”) may submit a copyright infringement complaint.

Protection of intellectual property is of utmost importance to us and we ask our users and their authorized agents to do the same. It is our policy to expeditiously respond to clear notifications of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) of 1998, the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office website. This DMCA policy was created with the help of WebsitePolicies.

Table of contents

1. What to consider before submitting a copyright complaint
2. Notifications of infringement
3. Changes and amendments
4. Reporting copyright infringement

What to consider before submitting a copyright complaint

Before submitting a copyright complaint to us, consider whether the use could be considered fair use. Fair use states that brief excerpts of copyrighted material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder. If you have considered fair use, and you still wish to continue with a copyright complaint, you may want to first reach out to the user in question to see if you can resolve the matter directly with the user.

Please note that if you are unsure whether the material you are reporting is in fact infringing, you may wish to contact an attorney before filing a notification with us.

We may, at our discretion or as required by law, share a copy of your notification or counter-notification with the account holder engaged in the allegedly infringing activity or for publication. If you are concerned about your information being forwarded, you may wish to hire an agent to report infringing material for you.

Notifications of infringement

If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof, and you believe that any material available on our Services infringes your copyrights, then you may submit a written copyright infringement notification (“Notification”) using the contact details below pursuant to the DMCA. All such Notifications must comply with the DMCA requirements. You may refer to a DMCA takedown notice generator or other similar services to avoid making mistake and ensure compliance of your Notification.

Filing a DMCA complaint is the start of a pre-defined legal process. Your complaint will be reviewed for accuracy, validity, and completeness. If your complaint has satisfied these requirements, our response may include the removal or restriction of access to allegedly infringing material as well as a permanent termination of repeat infringers’ accounts.

If we remove or restrict access to materials or terminate an account in response to a Notification of alleged infringement, we will make a good faith effort to contact the affected user with information concerning the removal or restriction of access, which may include a full copy of your Notification (including your name, address, phone, and email address).

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any portion of this Policy, the Operator reserves the right to take no action upon receipt of a DMCA copyright infringement notification if it fails to comply with all the requirements of the DMCA for such notifications.

The process described in this Policy does not limit our ability to pursue any other remedies we may have to address suspected infringement.

Changes and amendments

We reserve the right to modify this Policy or its terms related to the Website and Services at any time at our discretion. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page, post a notification on the main page of the Website. We may also provide notice to you in other ways at our discretion, such as through the contact information you have provided.

An updated version of this Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Policy unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of the Website and Services after the effective date of the revised Policy (or such other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to those changes.

Reporting copyright infringement

If you would like to notify us of the infringing material or activity, we encourage you to contact us using the details below:

jcrabapple@dmv.community

This document was last updated on November 29, 2022



Mental Health Concerns

What to do about self-harm and suicide concerns on Mastodon

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, you’re not alone. Use the contact info below to get help.

United States: Contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Crisis workers are available 24 hours a day. Calls are free and confidential.

Other countries & regions: To find a crisis center near you, visit International Association for Suicide Prevention.

If you or someone you know is thinking about engaging in self-harm or suicidal behavior, you should seek help as soon as possible by contacting services with expertise in crisis intervention and suicide prevention.

Feedback

If you have ideas on how to improve DMV.Community, please head over to https://feedback.dmv.community and add your suggestions there!

Server Status and Hosting

Server Status Page

DMV.Community is hosted by Vultr.com

1. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
4. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
5. No content illegal in the United States
6. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
7. No spam or advertising.
8. Do not try to sell AI-generated art or pass it off as your own creation. Using it to make silly images or memes is one thing, but don't pretend you're an artist.
9. Do not post AI-generated music. It's an abomination.

A server for the PMD creative community. artists, game makers, or just fans!

Hi and welcome to the PMDCollab Mastodon server!

What is this? Think of this as a mixture of Twitter and r/MysteryDungeon. It's our own little world for sharing things about the games and franchise we all love! Artists, game makers, YouTubers, fans all come together to share and discuss the games they love.

Additionally thanks to the Mastodon Federation feature you can follow people on all other Mastodon servers that exist. Likewise people from other servers can follow you and share content you post. In that way the entire Mastodon network is also a big "Twitter replacement".

In a way this is also a lot like the old-school community forums of the olden days of the internet. But with features you would expect from a modern social media platform.

Okay but why though? Twitter is a mess. It always has been but recently it has been even more so. Mastodon is a network of small servers hosted by individuals or small companies. The goal is to get social media back into the hands of the public. Additionally it's also more focused than Twitter, with this server being focused on PMD and the bigger franchise, so ideally you'll find what you are looking for way more easily. And thanks to the Federation feature you can still interact with every other Mastodon server and talk and share anything you like.

Hm, but nobody's on here... Not yet! But that can change! By signing up you become part of the community.

And thanks to the focused nature of this server it will be much easier for PMD fans and other fans of the bigger related franchise (you know, the one starting with P) to find each other. If you are an artist drawing art of your favorite creatures it will hopefully be way easier for you to be found here than on the big void that is Twitter.

In that sense this is kind of a mix of Twitter and a subreddit. You get the same microblogging benefits that Twitter gives you, and you get the focused spotlight that being on the frontpage of a subreddit gives you.

Do I just have to talk about PMD? Of course not! All content is allowed as long as you agree to our rules, which basically boil down to common sense. We are mostly focused on PMD and the related franchises though.

How can I help? Sign up and share your content! If you are a creator on other platforms it would help if you could link here so people learn about this platform. Also if you have any art for a server banner etc. toot that at @PMDCollab.

How to contact us Send a message to @PMDCollab here on the platform.

Keep in mind that PMDCollab is a loose collective of people, see the "What is PMDCollab?" section.

Who made the banner image? The banner image was drawn by @spoonyliger.

What is PMDCollab? PMDCollab is a loose collective of PMD-related development projects (games, communities, resources). There is no one entity that "owns" it all, it's multiple creators coming together under the umbrella name "PMDCollab". If you want to host your own project under the PMDCollab umbrella, reach out to us using the contact options above.

Visit PMDCollab's website.

PMDCollab Guild is this server.

1. You need to be 13 years old or older to use this service
2. Use common sense please
3. Be nice. Do not harass people, do not stalk or impersonate anyone.
4. Use Content Warnings. Do not post sensitive content, especially sexual, without appropriate content filters and NSFW settings
5. Moderators can limit your account or remove content if they rule that you are in violation of these rules or the spirit of these rules.
6. German laws for legal/illegal content apply.
7. Subject to change: These rules will be updated in the future, be sure to check them regularly.