Mastodon.Africa is run by South Africans, for South Africans, Africans and everybody else looking for a friendly and welcoming Mastodon instance.

Welcome to Mastodon.Africa! We maintain a dedicated website on which you can learn about:

• Our Vision and Mission
• Our Code of Conduct
• Monthly operating reports
• Terms and Conditions

Head on over there for more information: about.mastodon.africa

1. Be respectful of others
2. No trolling, spamming, or flame-baiting
3. No harassment, or sharing of personal data
4. All content must be "Safe for Work"
5. Don't try to overload or break the service
6. Agree to be bound by the Terms and Code of Conduct at https://about.mastodon.africa

1. bae.st: suspended (reason: This domain appears on several public blocklists for harmful content)
2. beefyboys.win: suspended (reason: Repeated targeted harassment of mastodon.africa users)
3. detroitriotcity.com: suspended (reason: Multiple accounts on this instance have harassed mastodon.africa users)
4. freespeechextremist.com: suspended (reason: Multiple accounts on this instance have harassed mastodon.africa users)
5. mugicha.club: suspended (reason: Multiple accounts on this instance have harassed mastodon.africa users)
6. poa.st: suspended (reason: Repeated targeted harassment of mastodon.africa users)

The globohomo cabal (positive)

1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism.
2. No content illegal in the United States.
3. No harassment.
4. NSFW media must be marked as sensitive.
5. No violent rhetoric or endorsement of violence.

1. glaceon.social: suspension
2. solarpunk.moe: limitation

A Mastodon server geared for the retro computer community!

About RetroRewind.Social

Welcome to RetroRewind.Social. This Mastodon instance is brought to you by Retro Rewind Ltd. (retrorewind.ca) and is meant for use by the retro computer enthusiast community.

Rules

We expect users on RetroRewind.Social to adhere to the following rules:

• No content condoning or advocating for the oppression of members of marginalized groups, or general discrimination of groups based on characteristics like gender, race, disabilities, nationality, education, religion etc.
• No harassment, stalking, mobbing, deadnaming, misgendering, contacting users who have made it clear they do not wish to be contacted.
• Obviously: no content that is illegal in Canada, no actions intended to damage this instance (performance, reputation, security).
• No right or alt-right bullshit, Nazi content, conspiracy narratives, etc.
• No automated accounts (unless approved by the moderators). This includes bots, crossposters, feedposters etc.
• Provide content warnings if you think the topic is controversial.
• When posting to the local timeline, provide image descriptions.

Best practices

We ask users on RetroRewind.Social to keep the following guidelines in mind, in order to foster a considerate and accessible atmosphere. Forgetting about them is not as serious as breaking the instance rules, but repeated malicious unwillingness to follow the best practices will be considered just like breaking a rule.

• Use content warnings liberally.
• Provide credit for creative works that are not your own.
• Don’t be a reply guy – uninvited comments about another user’s personal choices, lifestyle or family are strongly discouraged and may be considered harassment.
• In discussions, please remain civil, do not insult the people you’re talking to. Don’t escalate.

Enforcement

Rules are only worth as much as their enforcement, so here is what you can expect from the RetroRewind.Social moderators (we will publish our moderation guidelines in the future, but here’s the short version):

Breaking these rules can get you kicked off the instance, though unless you’re behaving in bad faith, we will give you several warnings first.

Please report behaviour that bothers you. We will keep your report confidential.

Ultimately

Retro Rewind Ltd is maintaining this instance as a free service to the retro computer community. The moderation team here donates their time to make sure everyone has a great experience. Don’t push it!

1. Be nice to everybody always. No hate speech, slurs, or directing negativity towards others.
2. Stay tasteful and legal.
3. Use content warnings when appropriate for NFSW or sensitive topics/media.
4. English only. Due to the issues with moderating other languages, please stick to English posts/media on this server.
5. No users under 13 years of age.

Inofficial Mastodon-Instance for TUM students. Everybody with a @mytum.de email can register on tum.social.

Rules ¶

"Be excellent to each other" is easier said than done, and means different things to different people.

The following rules are a (non-exhaustive) list of behaviors that may lead to deletion of toots, silencing or suspension of accounts, at the discretion of the instance administrators, as described in our Terms.

Please report behavior that bothers you. We will keep your report confidential.

• We do not tolerate discriminatory behavior and content promoting or advocating the oppression of members of marginalized groups. These groups may be characterized by any of the following (though this list is naturally incomplete):
  
  
  • ethnicity
  • gender identity or expression
  • sexual identity or expression
  • physical characteristics or age
  • disability or illness
  • nationality, residency, citizen status
  • wealth or education
  • religious affiliation, agnosticism or atheism
  
  
• We do not tolerate threatening behavior, stalking, and doxxing.
• We do not tolerate harassment, including brigadier, dogpiling, or any other form of contact with a user who has stated that they do not wish to be contacted.
• We do not tolerate mobbing, including name-calling, intentional misgendering or deadnaming.
• We do not tolerate violent nationalist propaganda, Nazi symbolism or promoting the ideology of National Socialism.
• We do not tolerate conspiracy narratives or other reactionary myths supporting or leading to the above-mentioned (and/or similar) behavior.
• Actions intended to damage this instance or its performance may lead to immediate account suspension.
• Content that is illegal in Germany will be deleted and may lead to immediate account suspension.

Best practices ¶

The list below is a collection of behavior that we expect to see from our users. If you see a user go against these best practices in a way that bothers you, please file a report, and we will talk to them. While these best practices are designed to be guidelines for a good communal instance, repeated malicious unwillingness to follow the best practices will be considered just like breaking a rule.

• In general, use the tools provided to foster a considerate and accessible atmosphere. This includes the liberal use of content warnings (especially on potentially disturbing or controversial topics), and alt-text captioning of media files.
• When possible, provide credit for creative works in your posts that are not your own.
• Uninvited comments about another user's personal choices, lifestyle or family are strongly discouraged and may be considered harassment. Inappropriate sexual attention, comments about appearance and implication of physical contact will not be tolerated toward any non-consenting user.
• If you post sexual content or gore, use content warnings.
• If you post advertisements, use a content warning. Advertisements should not be excessive or automated.
• Bots may only interact with a user when they're invited by that user to do so.
• Automated posts and high-frequency posts should be unlisted (rendering visible to everybody, but not appearing on the local timeline) to keep the local timeline of our instance a place of community dialogue and human interaction. This extends to bots, feed posters, Twitter "retweets" and Twitter crossposts with broken mentions. Crossposter accounts that stop being active participants in our community may be removed at the discretion of the moderators.
• In discussions, please remain civil, do not insult the people you're talking to. Note that irony, sarcasm, or similar modes of language don't translate well to written language and tend to escalate discussions or misunderstandings.

(These best practices were inspired by the Terms of bsd.network. Thank you!)

Resources ¶

We (@adrian, @dorian and @tom) are maintaining this instance on our spare time, hardware and nerves. Don't push either of those.

Attribution ¶

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

This text is adapted from the chaos.social rules and free to be adapted and remixed under the terms of the CC-BY (Attribution 4.0 International) license.

1. We do not tolerate discriminatory behavior and content promoting or advocating the oppression of members of marginalized groups.
2. We do not tolerate threatening behavior, stalking, and doxxing.
3. We do not tolerate harassment, including brigadier, dogpiling, or any other form of contact with a user who has stated that they do not wish to be contacted.
4. We do not tolerate mobbing, including name-calling, intentional misgendering or deadnaming.
5. We do not tolerate violent nationalist propaganda, Nazi symbolism or promoting the ideology of National Socialism.
6. We do not tolerate conspiracy narratives or other reactionary myths supporting or leading to the above-mentioned (and/or similar) behavior.
7. Actions intended to damage this instance or its performance may lead to immediate account suspension.
8. Content that is illegal in Germany will be deleted and may lead to immediate account suspension.
9. We (@adrian, @dorian and @tom) are maintaining this instance on our spare time, hardware and nerves. Don't push either of those.

1. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension

A "nice place on the internet" for the communities Snailed It loves

A "nice place on the internet" for the communities Snailed It loves.

This server is owned and operated by Snailed It Development Ltd (Company No. 13620216), a company registered in England and Wales at 7 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR.

Abuse reports and DMCA: abuse@snailedit.dev

GDPR: gdpr@snailedit.dev

Support/questions: hello@snailedit.dev

1. Be respectful. Harassment, dogpiling, or doxxing of other users will not be tolerated.
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
4. Avoid posting highly sexually explicit or violent media.
5. No content illegal in the United States or United Kingdom
6. You must be 18 years of age, or older, to hold an account on this service

1. soc.jrconlin.com: limitation

1. You're required to mark NSFW content as sensitive content.
2. No hate speech, no harassment.
3. Spamming and advertising are not allowed.

A Mastodon server for Quakers and other folks who feel like they are part of the world of Quakers. Run by David Coletta of https://threeriversmeeting.org, New England Yearly Meeting. Boston, MA, USA.

Policies: - Quakers.Social DMCA Policy

1. BE THOUGHTFUL. If you wouldn't say it during fellowship after the rise of meeting, think about whether to say it here.
2. BE ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-MISOGYNISTIC, AND ANTI-HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC. Do some positive work toward making this space welcoming to traditionally marginalized folks, and when you're called in, listen.
3. BE AUTHENTIC. If it's safe for you to do so, please sign up with your real name.
4. BE INTERESTING AND INTERESTED. Help make Quakers.Social a lively place. Post about your ministry or calling, your spiritiual life, and so on. Plus, on Mastodon there's no algorithm, just boosting and favouriting, so do plenty of both.
5. BE SAFE. If you say anything here that seems to the moderators to put anyone in any kind of danger, you get one warning, then your account will be disabled.
6. DON'T VIOLATE ANYONE'S COPYRIGHT. Please see the Quakers.Social DMCA Policy (https://meta.quakers.social/dmca-policy) for more information about what to do if you believe your rights have been infringed or if you have received a request to take down copyrighted material.

1. aethy.com: limitation
2. apobangpo.space: limitation
3. asso.lgbt: limitation
4. assortedflotsam.com: limitation
5. blackqueer.life: limitation
6. c.im: limitation
7. chalk.moe: suspension
8. circumstances.run: limitation
9. cubhub.social: limitation
10. framapiaf.org: limitation
11. freethought.online: limitation
12. fursuits.online: limitation
13. handon.club: limitation
14. icosahedron.website: limitation
15. ifwo.eu: limitation
16. is.nota.live: limitation
17. krgr.social: limitation
18. lacommu.net: limitation
19. libera.tokyo: suspension
20. mastodon-japan.net: limitation
21. mastodon.acc.sunet.se: limitation
22. mastodon.chuggybumba.com: limitation
23. mastodon.cloud: suspension
24. mastodon.ktachibana.party: limitation
25. mastodon.me.uk: limitation
26. muenchen.social: limitation
27. mytter.jp: suspension
28. nerdculture.de: limitation
29. nileane.fr: limitation
30. norden.social: limitation
31. peoplemaking.games: limitation
32. photog.social: limitation
33. piou.foolbazar.eu: suspension
34. plush.city: limitation
35. pokemon.mastportal.info: suspension
36. pullopen.xyz: limitation
37. radio.quaqoostore.net: limitation
38. river.group.lt: limitation
39. sfba.social: limitation
40. soc.jrconlin.com: limitation
41. social.linux.pizza: limitation
42. social.taker.fr: limitation
43. social.urspringer.de: limitation
44. strangeobject.space: limitation
45. texasobserver.social: limitation
46. thelife.boats: suspension
47. tiggi.es: limitation
48. toki.social: limitation
49. tooot.im: limitation
50. toot.4t2.uk: limitation
51. tooting.ch: limitation
52. troet.cafe: limitation
53. urbanists.social: limitation
54. wobbl.xyz: limitation
55. zhub.link: suspension
56. zoo.retro-ink.com: limitation

On a post-it note on the server is scrawled the following: "Mastodon is a decentralized social network that's completely free of advertising, tracking cookies, and surveillance. It is community-moderated and community-focused. Think Twitter, but on the free-spirited, anti-corporate internet of the 1990s." The post-it smells faintly of lavender.

This Mastodon server instance was made as a response to anti-capitalist and queer activism taking place on capitalist social media par excellence like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Its goal is to provide an alternative venue for political thought, queer shit, and community that doesn't put money (and our private data) in the pockets of gigantic tech corporations, and isn't subject to their moderation biases and puritan censorship policies.

Political rants, queer-positivity, critical thought, and deviant genderfuckery are welcome and encouraged.

On a post-it note on the server is scrawled the following: "Mastodon is a decentralized social network that's completely free of advertising, tracking cookies, and surveillance. It is community-moderated and community-focused. Think Twitter, but on the free-spirited, anti-corporate internet of the 1990s." The post-it smells faintly of lavender. This Mastodon server instance was made as a response to anti-capitalist and queer activism taking place on capitalist social media par excellence like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Its goal is to provide an alternative venue for political thought, queer shit, and community that doesn't put money (and our private data) in the pockets of gigantic tech corporations, and isn't subject to their moderation biases and puritan censorship policies. Political rants, queer-positivity, critical thought, and deviant genderfuckery are welcome and encouraged.

Beach City is our private beach-side sanctuary for close friends and awesome folks. We are various flavors of trans, queer, non-binary, polyamorous, disabled, furry, etc.

Beach City Introduction

Hello Friend and thank you for checking out Beach City, our beautiful beach-side sanctuary on the internet. Beach City citizens are various flavors of trans, queer, non-binary, Black, POC, polyamorous, disabled, furry, etc. and all know at least a few of their neighbors really well!

We're a weird and mixed group of people here, but most of us are well known to someone else on the instance. If you wanna join us, send someone on here a message and ask. If you're a well-known friend of theirs, they might just help you get a link!

Beach City Logo by @supercee@plush.city.
Beach City Mascot "Fuschia Agate" created by @critter@meemu.org.
Beach City Color Theme by @coda@beach.city
Beach City Sourcecode on Github!
Help us pay for our infrastructure and staff on Patreon!
Follow @announcements@beach.city for server wide information and updates.
Follow @moderation_alerts@beach.city for information about moderation decisions, including suspensions and silencings.
Join Beach City on Discord
Join Beach City on Telegram

Not affiliated with Steven Universe nor Cartoon Network in any way. We just love them and are lightly theming our instance in a related way. If they ever complain about us, we'll probably switch to theming ourselves with 80s/vaporwave stylings.

Code of Conduct

1. This is an 18+ server. Do not join or request access if you are not 18 years of age. We will remove accounts that are not 18+ accordingly.
2. Treat others with respect, and be respectful in kind.
3. No systemic abuse such as sexism, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, etc. When it comes to defining what constitutes "systemic abuse", the opinions of the marginalized are given priority at all times.
4. No unfocused misandry. This is due to its impact on non-binary, genderqueer, trans, disabled, PoC, queer, and otherwise marginalized men, several of whom are on our instance. Misandry focused at the top of the kyriarchy is not against the rules.
5. No harassment. Harassment campaigns may not be spread here, even against "valid" targets; this includes doxxing and dogpiling. If you must call someone out, do it elsewhere and link it here.
6. No Quote Tooting. On other social networks it's often used just to show off how horrible someone else is or to draw followers into an argument that should be one-on-one. Attempts to circumvent this through screencaps are prohibited.
7. Don't give unsolicited advice to others. Ask permission before making suggestions to folks.
8. CW sexually explicit content This includes images and text. All sexually explicit images must exclusively involve consent-capable adults. ("Consent-capable": If asked whether they'd like to pose for an adult photo, they would be capable of responding "yes", and that "yes" would be able to stand up in court of law.)
9. No scraping content from web interface or API.
10. No public twitter crossposting unless you're on beach city a lot reading and replying. If you are mostly crossposting and not reading, you may post unlisted.

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

Content Warnings are a tool to enable someone to opt-into your content. This is particularly useful when posting publicly, as opposed to unlisted. When you post publicly, your posts are received by people from this server and other servers that may not currently follow you.

If you don't want to deal with CWs, feel free to post unlisted! Unlisted posts work just like twitter and only go to your profile and followers and or people posts are boosted to.

To use content warnings, click the CW button when composing your toots. This will hide the main body of your toot behind a line of text text like a subject line.

Here at Beach City, sexually explicit content, graphically violent content, and similar are required to be CWed. We heavily suggest you also CW the topics below as well. Topics can get fuzzy, so as long as you're not malicious with it, it's fine.

• Sex and nudity
• Drugs, drug use
• Personal health, medical issues, hospitals
• Depression, anxiety, mental health issues, suicidal thoughts
• Food, weight loss, weight gain
• Death, funerals
• Violence of any kind
• Links to Facebook or Twitter
• Movie and TV show spoilers
• Selfies, eye contact

There are a number of other topics you might consider CWing, such as bigotry and politics, but this is something between you and your audience. It's okay to ask others to CW certain topics, but it's also okay to ignore requests for CWs. People who do not like your CW choices can choose to mute or block you or use filters.

Harassing users to CW their content, as well as demanding CWs from folks talking about their personal experiences of racism and other forms of bigotry, is against our rules and could result in being banned.

Staff

In addition to the site's owner, @pandora_parrot, Beach.city's moderation staff include:

• @violetSpark

Our promise to you

We promise to do everything we can to avoid negatively impacting your social media experience. We will immediately block every single example of overt and explicit racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. We will be judicious about other forms of behavior we find unpleasant. We'll allow you to manage that yourselves, using your own personal block lists and mute lists. If you see a problem you think we need to act on as a server, report the user or toot that is a problem and we will act on it rapidly. We'll bias towards safety and act fast, but always be willing to step back from any mistakes we discover.

1. This is an 18+ server. Do not join or request access if you are not 18 years of age. We will remove accounts that are not 18+ accordingly.
2. Treat others with respect, and be respectful in kind.
3. No systemic abuse such as sexism, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, etc. When it comes to defining what constitutes "systemic abuse", the opinions of the marginalized are given priority at all times.
4. No unfocused misandry. This is due to its impact on non-binary, genderqueer, trans, disabled, PoC, queer, and otherwise marginalized men, several of whom are on our instance. Misandry focused at the top of the kyriarchy is not against the rules.
5. No harassment. Harassment campaigns may not be spread here, even against "valid" targets; this includes doxxing and dogpiling, by way of quoting or linking directly to posts for harassment purposes. . If you must call someone out, do it elsewhere and link it here.
6. Don't give unsolicited advice to others. Ask permission before making suggestions to folks.
7. CW sexually explicit content This includes images and text. All sexually explicit images must exclusively involve consent-capable adults.
8. No scraping content from web interface or API.
9. No public twitter crossposting unless you're on beach city a lot reading and replying. If you are mostly crossposting and not reading, you may post unlisted.
10. New users must be known by an existing citizen. This is to cut down on the need to moderate internal users. Everyone has someone else they are accountable to. Existing users can invite anyone they know.

1. cupoftea.social: suspension
2. icosahedron.website: limitation
3. monsterfuckers.online: suspension