Independent site for Penn Staters, not operated by the University. Click "Learn More" below to learn more about this service or click "create account" to get started.

Welcome to psu.social

This is an independently-operated site focused on the Penn State community, both in Pennsylvania and beyond. Registration is open.

About

The intent of this Mastodon server is to build a network of people with some connection, interest, or support for Penn State University. This spans any use case from academic to research to topical collaborations to the very best collegiate sports teams in America.

There is no monetization model, we don't sell your information, and we don't advertise to you. A detailed privacy policy stating this is available here.

Staff

The site operators are @rob and @cyn. You can also email sysadmin@psu.social for help or questions.

Tech Information & Details

The server is hosted in Los Angeles, California.

• "Bare metal" 64-bit ARM server
• 16 dedicated CPUs
• 64GB memory
• 6TB local disk storage
• Cloudflare for security and acceleration
• AuthSMTP for email delivery
• Permanent status page at Railgun

This site is committed to the Mastodon Server Covenant. In a nutshell, this means:

• We will actively moderate against racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
• We maintain daily backups.
• At least one other person has emergency access to our infrastructure.
• A minimum of 3 months of warning will be provided should we ever shut down the site.

Donations

This site is operated and paid for by Robert Brown, via our husband/wife California small business Chic 42 Enterprises. We plan to continue to support it financially and otherwise indefinitely.

We are not seeking contributions, but if you would like to give back we would appreciate donations to the Robert J. Brown Award for Excellence in Finance. This is a scholarship established in memory of your site operator's father Dr. Robert J. Brown, a long-time professor at Penn State Harrisburg.

Moderated Servers

Mastodon generally allows you to view content and interact with users from any other server in the "fediverse". Exceptions and blocked sites will be listed towards the bottom of this page, and at this early state there are no blocks in place.

DMCA Policy

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and specifically the provisions located at 17 USC 512, set forth the steps an online service provider such as psu.social must follow in the event of copyright infringement on their servers.

Notification of Infringement

If you believe that someone on psu.social has violated your copyright, you may send us a Notification of Copyright Infringement. For us to process such a notification, it must substantially comply with the requirements set forth in United States law. To speed our handling of your notification, please make sure it complies with the following criteria:

• Notifications may be submitted to our Registered Agent in one of two ways. You may send it via email (no attachments, please) to sysadmin@psu.social, or you may send it via physical mail to 1223 Wilshire Blvd #213, Santa Monica, CA 90403. We prefer to receive notification via email.
• Notifications must be signed by the copyright holder or the copyright holder's designated agent. Signatures may be a physical signature or a digital signature in a recognized industry-standard format such as PGP. Unsigned notifications will not be processed.
• Notifications must specifically identify the copyrighted work being infringed upon. For instance, if the work is a published book, provide the title, author, and ISBN; if the work is a magazine article, provide the title, author, magazine name, and magazine issue; if the work is available on the Internet, provide the URL of the work.
• Notifications must specifically include the URL where the work is being infringed upon our servers. For us to be able to reasonably identify the material, you must provide us with the complete URL, not a link to the entire journal. For instance, instead of https://psu.social (a link to the entire journal), provide https://psu.social/123.html (a link to the specific entry).
• Notifications must include sufficient information for us to contact you, including your address, your telephone number, and your email address.
• Notifications must contain a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in this manner is not authorized by the copyright owner(s), their agent, or the law.
• Notifications must contain a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that is allegedly being infringed.

Takedown Process

When we receive a properly-formatted notice of copyright infringement, we will forward it to the account owner and provide a limited amount of time to disable access to the allegedly-infringing content.

If you have received this notice from us, this disabling can generally be done in one of two ways: you can delete the entry, comment, or image in question, or you can allow us to set the entry, comment, or image in question to non-viewable. Setting an entry's security to Private or screening a comment is not sufficient to qualify as 'disabling access' under the law, as this can be undone at any time.

If we do not hear back from you with information about which option you'd prefer within the length of time we provide for you to select an option (usually between 24-48 hours), we will assume that you would like for us to set the entry, comment, or image in question to be non-viewable, and we will do so. This will not affect the rest of your account.

You then have one of three choices:

• You can accept the allegation of infringement, and state that you will not restore the content, file a counter-notification, or make further infringement upon the work in the future. If you choose to do this, you must delete the entry, comment, or image, if you have not already done so. This will count against you for determination of 'repeat offender' status. If you do not reply to any of our contact about an alleged infringement within 10 days of our forwarding the notification, we must assume that you have chosen this option.
• You can state that you do not accept the allegation of infringement, but you do not want to file a counter-notification or have us restore access to the allegedly-infringing content. If you choose to do this, we will not restore access to the entry, comment, or image. This will not affect the rest of your account. This will not count against you for determination of 'repeat offender' status.
• You can state that you do not accept the allegation of infringement, and let us know that you want to file a counter-notification under the provisions of law. If you choose to do this, please see the section below. This will not count against you for determination of 'repeat offender' status.

If you have received a notice of alleged infringement, you may not re-upload or re-post the allegedly-infringing material, unless you have gone through the counter-notification process. This applies whether you have deleted the material yourself, or you have chosen to allow us to disable access to the material. If you do re-upload or re-post the material, we will be forced to entirely disable your account.

Counter Notification

A counter-notification is a statement, under the provisions of 17 USC 512(g)(3), that you do not believe your content infringes on another person's rights, or that your use of another person's copyrighted material falls into one of the protected categories under law.

By filing a counter-notification, you are indicating that you are willing to defend your use of the material in court, if the copyright owner chooses to bring a lawsuit against you for your use of the material. This may involve civil and/or criminal penalties. We strongly suggest you contact an intellectual property lawyer licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction before you do this, so that you are aware of your rights and obligations under the law.

There are groups that may help you understand your rights and obligations, including the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Organization for Transformative Works. We are not affiliated with any of these organizations, and they may not be able to help you, but their mission and mandate involves educating people about their rights and obligations under intellectual property law.

A counter-notification must contain the following items:

• Your signature. Signatures may be a physical signature or a digital signature in a recognized industry-standard format such as PGP.
• The URL of your entry, comment, or image that has been called into question. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material. This should include any reasons why you believe your use of the material is not infringing.
• Your name, address, and telephone number.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court where you reside, or (if you live outside the United States) that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court where Chic 42 Enterprises, Inc. is located (currently Santa Monica, CA).
• A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of infringement, or that person's designated agent.

Your counter-notification will be provided, in its entirety, to the person who provided notification of alleged infringement.

Restoration Process

When we receive a counter-notification, we will forward it to the person who made the original notification of alleged infringement. From that point, the original notifier has 10 business days after receiving the counter-notification to file an action in court, seeking an injunction against the use of that material.

If you have provided us with a notification of infringement, and the user of our service has chosen to file counter-notification, you must inform us that you have filed court action no more than 14 days after we forward the counter-notification to you. If you do not, we will re-enable access to the allegedly-infringing material no less than 10 days, and no more than 14 days, after we forward the counter-notification.

If you have received a notification of infringement, and you have provided us with your counter-notification, we will re-enable access to the allegedly-infringing material, or let you know that you can re-post the allegedly-infringing material, no less than 10 days, and no more than 14 days, after we have forwarded your counter-notification to the original notifier.

If you have filed a counter-notification, you can not re-upload or re-post the allegedly-infringing material until we notify you that the waiting period has expired. If you do, we will be forced to entirely disable your account during that time period.

Repeat Offenses

US law requires us to disable the accounts of repeat offenders of others' copyright. What constitutes a repeat offender is not defined by law.

We currently define a repeat offender as anyone who has received five valid notifications of copyright infringement. Instances where you have filed a counter-notification, or instances where you have indicated that you do not accept the allegation of copyright infringement but do not wish to file a counter-notification, will not count against your account for purposes of determining 'repeat offender' status. We reserve the right to alter this definition in the future, at our sole discretion.

We also reserve the right to terminate the accounts of those who, in our opinion, misuse or abuse the DMCA notification process against other users.

1. No violence or sexually explicit media.
2. No spam or advertising.
3. No racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia.
4. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
5. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
6. No illegal content.
7. Content will be actively moderated in support of these rules.
8. The site admins are inherently reasonable and middle-of-the-road people. There is no desire to enforce an ideology one way or the other, we just ask that you please be kind and respectful to each other and this will work well for all of us. Thank you.

👋 A friendly social network for residents of Detroit, MI.

Financial Contributions

We rely on voluntary payments from our users. If you'd like to help pay that cost, you can send a one-time contribution or set up a monthly payment of any amount via ko-fi.com/washtenawsocial.

To support development of the open-source Mastodon software, consider contributing to the Mastodon Patreon.

Site News

Updates on site status, ToS and CoC changes, and so forth will be provided through the Instance News account on a2mi.social: @instance@a2mi.social.

If the site is offline, check status.a2mi.social for news.

Conduct, Content, and Moderation Policies

Reporting Accounts

When reporting accounts, please include a few posts that show rule-breaking behavior, when applicable. If there is any additional context that might help make a decision, please also include it in the comment.

We usually handle reports within 24 hours.

Please note that you are not notified when a report you have made has led to a punitive action, and that not all punitive actions are externally visible. For first time offenses, we may opt to delete offending content, escalating to harsher measures on repeat offenses. The moderation team reserves the right to take any action they deem appropriate, with or without notice.

Terms of Service

detmi.social is operated by Washtenaw Social LLC.

All users are expected to follow the site rules, and repeated or serious violations will lead to account suspension.

Creation of multiple accounts in order to avoid or evade moderation actions is not allowed. Violations will lead to suspension of all your accounts.

Regardless of your detmi.social account status:

• Usage that may undermine users’ security and privacy expectations (like scraping, indexing, or followbots) is not permitted.
• Usage that enables harassment, abuse, hate speech, spamming, or that enables violation of any other site rule is likewise disallowed.
• Usage that violates or aims to subvert the server-level moderation policies is not allowed.

Violations may result in suspension of your account, suspension of federation with your server, or network-level blocks, with no warning.

Server-level Moderation

To provide a pleasant space for the community, we block federation at the server level with Mastodon sites known to:

• Present security or privacy risks
• Enable hate speech, violent speech, or other violent/hateful ideologies
• Enable harassment or abuse
• Propagate dangerous conspiracy theories
• Tolerate/host content that's illegal in the US
• Enable spamming

Bot Policy

Please see our bot policy here.

DMCA & Legal Notices

Please refer to the Washtenaw Social LLC website for DMCA complaints or other legal matters..

1. Don't be a jerk to others.

1. aethy.com: limitation
2. apobangpo.space: limitation
3. asso.lgbt: limitation
4. aut.social: limitation
5. blackqueer.life: limitation
6. c.im: limitation
7. circumstances.run: suspension
8. cubhub.social: limitation
9. darkfriend.social: limitation
10. framapiaf.org: limitation
11. freethought.online: limitation
12. handon.club: limitation
13. icosahedron.website: limitation
14. ieji.de: limitation
15. ifwo.eu: limitation
16. is.nota.live: limitation
17. lacommu.net: limitation
18. libera.tokyo: suspension
19. m.somincola.org: limitation
20. mastodon.acc.sunet.se: limitation
21. mastodon.chuggybumba.com: limitation
22. mastodon.de: limitation
23. mastodon.me.uk: limitation
24. mastodon.multimob.be: limitation
25. meow.social: limitation
26. muenchen.social: limitation
27. mytter.jp: suspension
28. nerdculture.de: limitation
29. nileane.fr: limitation
30. piou.foolbazar.eu: suspension
31. plush.city: limitation
32. pounced-on.me: limitation
33. radio.quaqoostore.net: limitation
34. sfba.social: limitation
35. social.linux.pizza: limitation
36. social.urspringer.de: limitation
37. theatl.social: limitation
38. tiggi.es: limitation
39. toki.social: limitation
40. tooot.im: limitation
41. toot.4t2.uk: limitation
42. toot.mrah.live: limitation
43. troet.cafe: limitation
44. trpg-o.xyz: limitation
45. wobbl.xyz: limitation
46. zoo.retro-ink.com: limitation

A team of IT Volunteers working with global social movements are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for a real peoples’ alternative to Big Tech.

A team of IT Volunteers working with global social movements are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for a real peoples’ alternative to Big Tech. One part of our work is to establish a presence for grassroots movements in the Fediverse.

1. No use of violence, threats of violence, or violent language directed against another person.
2. No harassment, defined as continuing to interact with or post about another person after having been asked to stop, including, but not limited to: unwelcome sexual attention; deliberate intimidation; stalking; and dogpiling.
3. No offensive, harmful, or abusive comments or insults, particularly in relation to diverse traits.
4. Always use content warnings (CWs) when sharing content that: is likely to be distressing or hurtful to others; should require consent to view; includes discussions or depictions of violence, sexually explicit material, and/or common PT triggers; includes flashing or rapidly changing images.
5. No posting of Personally Identifiable Information about others (“doxing”).
6. No posting of sexual material that is without consent.
7. No posting of sexual material that depicts individuals appearing to be under age 18.
8. No excessive, frequent promotions of a product or service (i.e., spam)
9. No material that promotes bigotry, including fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or transphobic content.
10. We are anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-patriarchal. So the accounts we host will also have these character.

【案内】
1.アカウント登録は招待制です。登録を希望する場合はメンバーに招待を依頼してください。依頼されたメンバーはその旨を事前に通達して頂けるとスムーズに対応できます。

-2.メールアドレス、パスワード両方を忘れてしまった場合は運営者にお知らせください。パスワード変更メールを登録されたメールアドレスに送信します。

-3.インスタンスに接続できない場合は、Discord(https://discord.gg/ExRtGec7w9)など他のサービスで報告してください。

【ルール】
-1.みんななかよく

-2.以下の事項に該当する、もしくは事前に該当すると判断された場合は、アカウントの作成を拒否、またアカウントを停止します。
--2-1.スパム等の迷惑サイトの宣伝、誘導。
--2-2.嫌がらせやストーカー、誹謗中傷等の迷惑行為。
--2-3.その他の懸念事項により、インスタンスへの参加が相応しくないと判断された場合。

-3.基本的に当インスタンスでは言論、自己表現の自由を保障します。ただし、以下のような投稿を禁止します。
--3-1.個人または集団に攻撃・危害を加える事を目的とする圧力行為、またはその内容。
--3-2.他人の表現・行動を著しく萎縮・貶める内容。
--3-3.意図的に他人を不快にさせる内容。

-4.これらのルールに違反すると思われる投稿を見かけた場合は通報してください。通報内容は運営者・モデレーターにのみ通知されます。
--4-1.ルール違反や、乗っ取りなどセキュリティ安全上などの問題により、該当する投稿を告知なく非公開にする場合があります。
--4-2.度重なる違反が見られるユーザーには注意や警告を行いますが、それでも改善が見られない場合には利用を制限します。
--4-3.通報はただちに運営者・モデレーターによって受理され、慎重に審議されます。

上記のルールはkimpireの当Mastodonにおいてのみ適用されます。ただし、kimpireの各サービス上でのルール違反等の状況によって、全ての利用を制限する場合があります。

1. スパム等の迷惑サイトの宣伝、誘導の禁止
2. 嫌がらせやストーカー、誹謗中傷等の迷惑行為の禁止
3. 個人または集団に攻撃・危害を加える事を目的とする圧力行為、またはその内容
4. 他人の表現・行動を著しく萎縮・貶める内容の禁止
5. 意図的に他人を不快にさせる内容の禁止

子育て・育児をテーマにしたインスタンスです。育児の記録メモや、子育てにかかわる方同士のコミュニケーションの場となれば幸いです。

子育て・育児をテーマにしたインスタンスです
育児の記録メモや、子育てにかかわる方同士のコミュニケーションの場となれば幸いです

※Babuuユーザ有志が運営していますが、Babuu管理者様は本インスタンスとは関係ありません。
本インスタンスについてお問い合わせしないようお願いいたします。

■ルール
・公序良俗に反する投稿を禁じます
・子供のものであっても、局部の映り込んだ写真の投稿はおやめください
・この投稿内容は苦手な人もいるかも？と思った場合はCWやNSFW機能をご利用ください
・ミュート機能等も適宜活用して、快適なマストドンライフを送りましょう

■お問い合わせ
下記のいずれかへお願いいたします。
・管理者アカウント
・ツイッター

Literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities! For readers, writers, academics or anyone wanting to follow the conversation.

Please read the server rules and the information below before signing up to and/or using Zirkus. If you don’t agree to all of the terms set out here, please do not use this server. By continuing to use Zirkus, you agree to be bound by the terms set out here.

Guidelines

• Language: There are no language rules on this server. English is de facto the main language, but feel free (even encouraged!) to post in other languages.
• Content warnings: We do not require a content warning (CW) for posts about politics, social justice, etc. However, we ask that you be kind and considerate: include CWs if you believe your post may be distressing.
• Bots: Bots are allowed. Try to make them fun.
• Cross-posting: Cross-posting from Twitter, RSS, etc. is fine (and even encouraged if it helps you become more active here).
• Topics: You do not need to remain permanently "on topic". The point of this arts/humanities community is to gather like-minded people who will make posts that are interesting to each other. But that doesn't mean that everything has to be about books, art, etc. This is a community to connect people, not enforce specific topics of discussion.
• Self-promotion: There are many writers and artists on this server, and we are more than happy for you to promote your work from your personal account. We request, however, that you do so in a tasteful and not spammy manner.
• Industry promotion: If you are a commercial entity of interest to our community (literary magazine, publishing house, etc.), we are also happy for you to promote here in a tasteful manner. However, we request that you make a modest donation, as this is a volunteer-run server that relies on crowdfunding (see below). Please contact the admins if you have any questions.

Donations

• You can donate to Zirkus on Patreon here.
• We are run entirely by volunteers on a non-profit basis and are dependent on donations to cover our hosting costs.
• We're currently hosted on masto.host and are looking to raise $420/month to support 5,500 users comfortably. We will publish new goals as necessary based on our user numbers.
• We ultimately hope to crowdfund via Open Collective, which offers greater transparency over expenses and more flexibility for contributors. Our Patreon page is a temporary solution while we await approval from a fiscal host on Open Collective. Once we have migrated crowdfunding to Open Collective, all funds raised on Patreon will be transferred to that account, the Patreon page will be shut down and contributors will be informed of the move.
• Every little helps a lot. We’d like to thank our community for all their support so far!

Moderation and reporting posts

• When you report an account or server, please indicate which server rule has been broken and include any extra context or explanation, if possible.
• We are volunteer moderators and will try to address the issue as soon as we are able.
• You will not be notified about the result, even if it has led to punitive action, which may not be visible to the outside. The response will be proportional to the nature of the offence.

Post visibility and privacy

• Please bear in mind that your posts – depending on their visibility – are public. We recommend not sharing information publicly that you do not intend to share with the whole internet.
• When you post, bear in mind that posts cannot be hidden by locking an account. Posts can be deleted either manually or set to auto-delete within various timeframes. Please familiarize yourself with the different visibility options for posting: Public, Unlisted, Followers Only, and Mentioned People Only (i.e. a direct message).
• The displaying and distribution of your post happens strictly according to the visibility rules you have set for the post. We will not modify the visibility of the post you have set.

Your data and privacy

• We can see basic account and profile information that you provide when signing up to the server, such as username, email, name (real or fake) and IP address.
• We do not share your information with any third parties.
• The server administrators can technically access users’ direct messages, but pledge not to do so. This option is also not available in the default admin UI. We strongly recommend not sending any confidential or private information via direct message on Mastodon (or equally on Twitter) because the messages are not end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp and Signal are currently end-to-end encrypted applications.
• We do not log information about your use of this server or run any form of analytics. Our hosting provider, masto.host, keeps a log of the IP addresses of the requests made to the server, which is auto-deleted in less than 90 days.

Liability

• You are responsible for the content that you make available to the server, including its legality and appropriateness. Please abide by the above server rules when using Zirkus. In case of breach of rules, the administrators reserve the right to remove you.
• In no event will Zirkus, the administrators and the moderators be liable to you or any third party for any special, indirect, incidental, exemplary or consequential damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the server and content included on or otherwise made available to you through the server.

Moderators

• @lexipenia@zirk.us (admin)
• @hyoyoonkang@zirk.us

1. No sexual content involving minors, including artistic depictions.
2. No gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions.
3. Racism, antisemitism and any form of harassment and discrimination on the basis of culture/background will not be tolerated.
4. Misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and any form of harassment and discrimination based on a person's sex, gender identity or sexual orientation will not be tolerated.
5. No promotion of alt-right, Nazi or other far-right ideology.
6. No promotion of disinformation, "alternative facts", conspiracy theories, etc.
7. No promotion of pro-anorexia / -bulimia content.
8. Ableism and any form of harassment and discrimination on the basis of physical/mental disabilities will not be tolerated.
9. No spam.

1. aethy.com: limitation
2. icosahedron.website: limitation
3. m.somincola.org: limitation
4. mytter.jp: suspension
5. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension
6. pokemon.mastportal.info: suspension

A mastodon/fedi server for @kaiiak@madverse.city, and for his friends, and for their friends, and so on. If you'd like to join, lemme know!

1. Ask staff before adding bots/alts.
2. All Relevant Laws Apply.
3. If you see something, say something!
4. Don't be more of a dick than Kaiiak.
5. English Only.