INDIEWEB.SOCIAL is an instance focused on the evolution of #Openweb, #Indieweb, #Fediverse, #Mastodon, #Humanetech and #Calm technologies.

INDIEWEB.SOCIAL is an instance focused on the evolution of #Openweb, #Indieweb, #Fediverse, #Humanetech and #Calm technologies.

Active since February, 2019.

We are committed to the Mastodon Server Covenant.



Please consider supporting our Patreon here.

1. Be Respectful
2. No Inauthentic Behaviour
3. No Hate Speech
4. No Abuse, Harassment or Violence
5. No Adult Content
6. No Illegal Content
7. No Misinformation/Fake News
8. No Trolling or Bullying

1. fediverse.xavin.net: limitation
2. h-i.social: limitation
3. jubi.life: limitation
4. monsterfuckers.online: suspension
5. mytter.jp: suspension
6. polyglot.city: limitation
7. rage.love: limitation
8. supebase.com: suspension

1. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension
2. zhub.link: suspension

This Mastodon instance is for people interested in technology, particularly online privacy and open source software.
Refugees from mastodon.technology welcome!
Discussions aren't limited to technology though, because tech folks shouldn't be limited to technology either!

Welcome

Gladtech.social was started in October 2022 to create a place for people to go after the beloved technology-focused Mastodon instance, mastodon.technology, shut down. After using mastodon.technology myself for so long (and having a great time!), I felt like I should try to give something back to the Fediverse. So here it is, a new instance. I hope many kind and thoughtful people on the internet will find a new home here.

- Jeff

Audience

This instance is aimed at the general technology crowd. Topics often discussed here often include software, hardware, firmware, shareware... Anything ending in -ware, really. Feel free to talk about $DAY_JOB, weekend hobbies, and anything in between.

If you're looking for more focus than all of technology (I know, right?), then feel free to pay attention to online privacy and open source software in particular. That's where the instance name comes from. AdTech and the larger ecosystem of surveillance capitalism and the attention economy are a pox on all our houses. GladTech represents a kind of response to that pox. An antibody, if you will. Don't contribute to AdTech. Instead, contribute to software that makes people glad. Contribute to GladTech.

Don't feel like you need to limit discussions to tech topics only though. Everyone needs a break from that now and then. Really, anyone who is willing to abide by the rules of conduct is welcome here, and their conversations are welcome too. If you're looking for non-tech ideas, pictures of cats are almost always welcome! #caturday

Customizations

Gladtech.social uses a customized version of Mastodon!

For now, I've only made a few minor tweaks:

• Toots can be up to 2048 characters in length. Because powers of two are awesome!
• The "Publish" button has been renamed back to "Toot", because we all deserve a little whimsy in our lives.

But in the future, I might get a little more ambitious. I'm thinking about adding encryption to the DMs someday. But I'm not quite ready for that yet.

Anyway, all the customizations for this instance can be found on the Codeberg account:
https://codeberg.org/cuchazinteractive/Mastodon

Sustainability

AKA: Will this instance still be around X years from now?

Predicting the future is hard, but here's some more information. Maybe that will help.

Renting cloud resources to run the instance costs money, and Mastodon uses a lot of resources apparently. The last time this section was updated (Dec 2022), the server had about 30 active users and a monthly cost of about 27/mo USD. The instance is running on a small self-managed virtual private server (VPS) at the moment. It's about the least expensive way I can think to do it. At this level of cost, I'm happy to keep funding maintenance costs out-of-pocket. It costs about as much as a couple TV channel subscriptions. Consider it my donation to the fediverse.

Someday though, if enough members hang out here, I might not be able to keep paying the bill personally. I don't yet know how big of a bill it will take to tap me out or how long it will take for the instance to grow that big, if ever. If that ever happens though, I'll open up the instance for donations from members. I've seen that model work well in other places, so we can consider that here if the time comes.

Rules of Conduct

• No advertising or excessive promotion.
• No bots, unless they're cute, funny, or useful. Bots should avoid posting to the public timeline.
• No pornography.
• No gore or graphic violence.
• Content that is borderline NSFW or could be construed as NSFW at a glance should be put behind a CW (Content Warning).
• No racism.
• No sexism.
• No discrimination based on gender, sexual minority, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or national origin.
• No xenophobia, nationalism, casteism, or fascism; no sympathizing with or advocating for these things.
• No sexual depictions of children.
• No holocaust denialism, no Nazi symbolism, no promotion of National Socialism.
• No stalking or harassment. In general, if someone asks you to stop interacting with them, then stop.
• Stalking, harassment, hate speech, or doxing that is posted to other instances or on other social media platforms is still grounds for having your account terminated here.
• No posting (or threatening to post) other people's personally identifying information ("doxing").
• No unwelcome sexual attention.
• No public or private oppressive language or actions.
• No promotion of conspiracy theories (eg anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-COVID).
• No unsolicited advice to strangers.
• No advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behaviour.
• No other unethical conduct.
• No scraping content from web interface or API.

To protect the free speech of users belonging to marginalized groups, this instance does not federate with overtly fascist instances. Additionally, we will refuse to federate with instances that themselves choose to federate with fascist instances.

Our rules of conduct and instance block lists were forked from mastodon.technology, so a huge thanks to Ash and the moderation team there for sharing their great work with everyone!

Handling harassment

If you are being harassed, please report the user using the "…" button and then "Report."

If you engage in harassing behavior, the moderator may take any action they deem appropriate, such as a warning or an expulsion.

The above rules may change at any time, and you may be banned at any time based on the moderators' judgment.

Privacy policy

What will we do with your data? Nothing. How will you be influenced by advertisers? You won't. How will we aggregate your data in order to improve your service… none of that.

We will never share your data with anyone else, except in the case of valid legal requests, if it comes to that. (Hopefully it won't come to that!) Similarly, users and third parties are forbidden from scraping content from the instance's web interface or API; you are required to respect robots.txt files.

More privacy information about this instance:

• HTTPS is used everywhere thanks to Let's Encrypt.
• No ads or trackers.
• Links are direct URLs rather than tracking redirects.
• Understand though that this instance is run by a human administrator (Jeff), and (as is the case with all Mastodon servers) that administrator potentially has access to your data, including DMs. The back-end is also not encrypted. If this is not okay with you, this might not be the instance for you.

Also understand that Mastodon has no real privacy guarantees. Specifically, Mastodon does not offer end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Mastodon is only really designed for communication in "the public square". If, instead, you want to have private conversations, consider using an app with stronger privacy guarantees, like Signal.

1. boop.juke.fr: suspension
2. fedi.kyuties.rocks: suspension
3. fediverse.xavin.net: limitation
4. jubi.life: suspension
5. mastodon.art: suspension
6. octodon.social: suspension
7. rage.love: suspension
8. scintilla.social: suspension
9. simcha.lgbt: suspension
10. social.catppuccin.com: suspension

It may be Joe's site, but everyone is welcome! A general instance with an emphasis on maintaining an open Fediverse and common sense community moderation. Rules are simple and aim not to be too restrictive.

Last updated on February 7, 2020

1. Don't post anything which is considered illegal in the United States of America.
2. Don't encourage self-harm.
3. Don't harass.
4. Don't spam.
5. Don't advertise.
6. Always assume good faith first.
7. Always tag and hide NSFW posts.
8. Yes, that's it.

1. furry.community: suspension
2. mastodon.cloudcauldron.io: suspension
3. monads.online: suspension
4. strangeobject.space: suspension
5. toot-lab.reclaim.technology: suspension

A place for people who are chronically ill, mentally ill, disabled, and friends/families/allies to come together, meet, share knowledge and random banter, and just about anything else.

Disabled Social keeps Disability Justice as a priority in building an intentional, supportive, accessible community, where we do not rely on unsustainable and exploitive technology and systems. You can read more about the principles of Disability Justice here: www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice

Current team: Aaidanbird (admin), McCullohMD (Admin, tech), Emily_rj (mod), elmiller0330 (mod)

There has been some concern expressed from members of the disability community on Twitter over people that have been blocked by some of the people running disabled.social. People who have been blocked over on Twitter either individually or as part of a block chain, are welcome here. The admins and moderators will not be personally blocking anyone on disabled.social unless there are threats of violence or overt defamatory claims made (which is a rules violation, and your account will be handled accordingly). There are several of us running this instance, so if there is an issue you need to raise, hopefully there is someone here that you are comfortable speaking with.

ALL are welcome here.

Sign Ups

When signing up, please indicate both why you want to join disabled.social and more importantly, how you plan to use the instance.

We have many organizations, charities, non-profits, adaptive tech developers, attorneys, medical providers with businesses, etc. interested in joining the instance, and we want to understand how you plan on using our space which is intended as a support space for disabled people.

We do not allow marketing to disabled people or mining them for your own commercial gains under any circumstances.

Recruiting for research projects may be allowed, but they must be submitted to our team for approval before posting.

Failure to answer how you plan to use the instance will result in rejection of your application.

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 moderators, as described in our Terms.

Please scroll through the entirety and review all of the rules.

Please report offensive behavior to the contact email address provided. Reports will be kept confidential.

• We do not tolerate discriminatory behaviour or content promoting/advocating the oppression of members of marginalised groups. These groups may be characterized by any of the following (though this list is naturally incomplete): Ethnicity or race; 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; Neurodivergence
• We do not tolerate threatening behavior, stalking, or doxxing.
• We do not tolerate harassment, including block evasion, brigading, 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, fascism, 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.
• Scientific discussion is critical to our community. However, conspiracy theories related to anti-vaxx and COVID19 without any scientific basis will not be tolerated.
• If you wish to recruit for a research project, do not spam the server and do not tag random members. All research recruitment must be sent to us first, where we will evaluate if it's okay to post for our members or if it is best to do recruitment elsewhere. The safety of our members is paramount.

Actions intended to damage this instance or its performance may lead to immediate temporary or permanent account suspension.

Content that is illegal in the United States will be deleted and may lead to immediate account suspension.

General Best Practices

The list below is a collection of behaviors 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 ("…@twitter.com"). 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. When using sarcasm, please indicate with /s.
• Please be mindful of your language, and avoid the use of ableist and saneist language. We recognize that sometimes it can be hard to find another word to clearly communicate what you are trying to say. We have created a resource to help you find alternative language while still being able to convey your point.
• Please use captions in uploaded videos.
• There are times when users just want to vent about their situation. Unless requested explicitly, please do not drop unsolicited advice. In some cases, it might be ok to ask OP directly if they want advice.
• Spam should only be reported to us if it originates on the server or if you come across a server that is full of spammy accounts. Individual spam accounts should be reported to the originating server, not disabled.social.

Best Practices to Assist Screen Readers

Some of our users make use of screen readers. There are a few things that make for a smoother experience:

• Reminder to alt-text your images. If you are low on spoons, please use #AltTextHelp and someone from the community should be able to help and provide it.
• Avoid using multiple emojis in a row. Ex: putting 3 smiley faces in a row, or 60 red flags.
• If you want to use hashtags throughout a toot, please do so sparingly. Best to put the majority of them at the end of the toot.
• Use CamelCase for the hashtags. Ex: #DisabledSocial
• Please use as few emoji in usernames or screen names as possible (preferably none)
• Please don't scatter emojis between words in an alternating pattern. Ex: word followed by clapping hands emoji, repeated indefinitely. Use them sparingly.
• When sharing a link, please provide a brief description of where the link directs to.

(These best practices were inspired by the Terms of chaos.social. Thank you!)

Mutual Aid

The posting and sharing of mutual aid and fundraisers are welcome here on disabled.social because they are critical for the survival of some of our members. Disability payments are often woefully inadequate to meet the much higher cost of living as a chronically ill and/or disabled person. These types of things are sometimes the only way that someone can afford rent, can afford to move out of a terrible housing situation, to be able to afford a mobility aid, etc. Please do not report these posts as spam. If they bother you, you can filter them out of your feed. And regarding the hashtags used: that is up to the discretion of the member who is posting. They know which hashtags are best for their specific situation.

When doing a mutual aid request, please do not specifically @ a specific user or derail a non-related thread. This is exploitative behavior that is breaking personal boundaries. Please keep it as a general ask (which you are allowed to repost) AND/OR share it on mutual aid specific threads.

Attribution

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

Admin/Mod Commitment to Non-Commercialization Statement

We all would like to reiterate that regardless of what any of us do for work, research, or advocacy, we will not be individually trying to commercialize the disabled.social instance.

Instance Blog

Our instance has a blog! You can check it out here.

Donations

If you wish to donate to help offset the costs of keeping the servers running, we have a Patreon setup at https://www.patreon.com/disabledsocial. Any donations are appreciated, however if you are in any way financially struggling but would like to contribute, please contact us for other ideas on how you can help!

1. I am at least 16 years of age or older on the date of registration for the disabled.social instance.
2. I agree to not discriminate or promote/advocate content that oppresses members of marginalized groups (see rules for examples of groups).
3. I agree to not threaten, stalk, or dox people.
4. I agree to not harass others using tactics such as brigading, dogpiling, or any other form of contact with a user who has stated that they do not wish to be contacted.
5. I agree to not engage in mobbing, name-calling, intentional misgendering, or deadnaming.
6. I agree to not promote/advocate violent nationalist propaganda, fascism, Nazi symbolism, or promoting the ideology of National Socialism.
7. I agree to not promote/advocate conspiracy narratives or other reactionary myths supporting or leading to the above-mentioned (and/or similar) behavior.
8. I agree to not promote/advocate unsubstantiated conspiracy theories related to anti-vaxx and COVID19.
9. I agree to alt text images, caption videos, and try my best to follow the best practices for screen readers.
10. I agree to not be spammy (e.g., spamming feeds with giveaways, crypto, etc.)
11. I agree to not post, promote, or advocate any content that is illegal in the United States.
12. I agree to not use disabled.social as a way to grow a commercial business, market products, or as a way to profit off of disabled people. EXCEPTION: Disabled people who sell products as part of mutual aid efforts and survival (e.g., Etsy shops, personal businesses, written works like books, etc.)
13. I agree to use content warnings where appropriate.
14. I agree to follow the remainder of the rules and adhere to the best practices outlined on the server about page.
15. I agree to not use LLMs or GenerativeAI or SMLs like Grok, ChatGPT, and others to generate text, pictures, videos, or any content to copy/paste into posts. Using AI tools for accessibility such as transcribing or translation is the exception.

1. cubsex.pictures: suspension
2. mytter.jp: suspension

A club for cheddar cracker enthusiasts.

1. Be respectful to all members.
2. Do not harass members of this community.
3. Avoid posting personal information.
4. SFW posts only.

Mastodon-server exclusief voor Vrienden van Computer Club.

1. Mastodon-server voor Vrienden van Computer Club (https://vrienden.computerclub.online).

#CovidIsNotOver #SaltingTheVibes -- ♥️ science, resources, advocacy, social, meetup, chat, etc. (Glitch-soc w/5k chars, 10 poll Qs, Tangerine themes, AuthFetch, ⛔ Threads)

*.zeroes.ca

who, what, when, where, why

We're a community of folks who are #StillMasking because we recognize that #CovidIsNotOver. The flagship Mastodon instance #ZeroesCA sent its first toot on April 27th, 2022 and has since been joined by Talk, Write, Pix, Links, Groups, and Music, with more to come. Though many of us are Canadian, we welcome like-minded people from all over the world. We're here for dissemination of science, experience, information, and ideas; to foster conversation and discussions; and to ask questions and provide answers, etm -- a safe, good faith space for covid-related topics and much more. Misinfo, disinfo, and other unlawful, harmful, and/or bad faith content is not permitted.

software

We run free, open-source software, much of it ActivityPub compatible and linked together via OAuth single-sign-on. We're currently running the Glitch-soc friendly fork of Mastodon with Authorized Fetch enabled and some customizations (5k character limit, 10 poll questions, Tangerine themes), Matrix (Element/Synapse), and WriteFreely. We permit bird.makeup and brid.gy/Bluesky. We suspend alt-fedi and Threads/Meta.

hardware

We lease VPS, dedicated, and cloud servers/services from OVHcloud in their Beauharnois, QC datacentre.

moderation

Our goal is to provide an environment conducive to community and communication and hostile to anything unlawful, malicious, and/or synonymous with bullying. We reserve the right to remove any accounts, content, or federated servers that are detrimental to this community and the above goal. We realize you're human and we are too, so we'll do our best to be fair yet protective. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to admins/mods.

reporting

When reporting accounts, please include posts that show rule-breaking behaviour (when applicable) and detailed context in the comment/note, so as to help us fully understand the situation and take appropriate action. This is especially important when the content is in a language in which moderators are not fluent. We endeavour to handle all reports within 24 hours. Bear in mind that you are not notified of punitive actions pursuant to any reports you make and not all punitive actions are externally visible.

funding

Donations toward infrastructure/hosting costs can be made through Ko-fi or Liberapay.

transparency

We are a non-commercial website and we have no interest, financial or otherwise, in collecting user data/activity. As of February 22, 2026, we have not been served any secret court orders or law enforcement warrants.

scraping

Content on this site is copyright its creator unless otherwise explicitly designated by them. Scraping for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.

1. 🚫 COVID denying, minimizing
2. 🚫 misinfo, disinfo
3. 🚫 unlawful content
4. 🚫 incitement of violence, promotion of violent ideologies
5. 🚫 harassment, dogpiling, doxxing, brigading
6. 🚫 racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism
7. 🚫 squatting, impersonation
8. 🚫 server/infrastructure abuse, manipulation
9. 🚫 spam, reply spamming, sexually explicit content
10. 🚫 being a jerk, engaging in friendly-fire, bringing zeroes.ca into disrepute

1. mastodon.openjw.com: suspension
2. mytter.jp: suspension
3. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension