A friendly and non-toxic English-first Mastodon community for anime, manga, and other otaku subjects.

Urusai! Social - Friendly Noise for Otaku

Urusai! aims to provide a toxicity-free, English-first home for fans of Japanese Otaku culture and entertainment, where everyone can feel comfortable sharing the things that get them excited, whatever they are.

S-Rank Mastodon:

Urusai! has powered-up Mastodon with extra features. In addition to running the advanced glitch-soc version of Mastodon, we've pulled in even more custom work from around the fediverse including:

• Emoji reactions compatible with other fediverse software
• Privacy-friendly Quote Posts
• Gif picker
• Extra collapsed post options
• Extra themes

Status page:

https://status.urusai.social/

Alternative UI 'Elk' for Twitter users

If you're coming from Twitter and want a familiar experience to start out, try Elk

Federation Relays:

This server uses relays to increase the variety and quantity of content on the Federated timeline. Current relays in use are:

https://relay.neovibe.app/inbox

https://relay.sakurajima.moe/inbox

Defederation:

Urusai! aggressively defederates with servers that may violate our Code of Conduct, based on information provided by other server admins. We do not publish our block-list here to prevent bots from scraping it and notifying bad actors, but you can find it in our git repo

We are a "block first, ask questions later" community. Any server block may be challenged by any Urusai! user and an audit will be performed to determine if they should stay blocked.

Code of Conduct:

rules.urusai.social/mastodon-coc.html. TLDR: be a sensible, nice human being. Harassment, insults, bigotry etc. won't be tolerated.

Usage Guidelines:

rules.urusai.social/mastodon-guidelines.html. TLDR: it's mostly about things that might interest fans of anime and other otaku stuff. Preferred language is English.

This server is run by @neatchee; let me know if you have any issues or suggestions, or see inappropriate activity. If you'd like to contribute to server costs and snacks for contributors you can donate on ko-fi

Additional Attributions:

The custom glitch flavors/styles 'Gekka', 'Sakura', and 'Holiday' are graciously provided via AGPL by chikorita157 of sakurajima.moe and can be found in their GitHub repo

'Vanilla modern' uses CSS provided by Freeplay while other '-modern' variants were adapted by chikorita157

The 'Birdsite' style provided by ronilaukkarinen

TangerineUI style provided by nileane

Emoji Reactions, Gif Picker, and Media Attachments for Polls courtesy of TheEssem (at least until they get merged upstream heh)

Quote Posts courtesy of Treehouse.Systems

DMCA Takedown Requests:

Only content posted by users with "@urusai.social" in their username is managed by this server. If you find infringing material from a user on our server, make sure it is not covered by Fair Use, then send your takedown request to this instance's admin email (neatchee@ansemreport.com). Agent Registration: DMCA-1044853

1. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
2. Sexually explicit, overtly lewd, or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting. Media depicting non-consensual sex is prohibited.
3. No loli/shota/etc lewds. If I even have to question their age there are no warnings. You're simply gone.
4. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, casteism, or any other bigotry
5. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users anywhere in the fediverse
6. No content illegal in the US
7. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
8. No advertisement or self-promotion accounts. Users may self-promote in moderation, but that should not be the sole purpose of the account.
9. Content Warnings must be used on posts discussing or describing common trauma-inducing topics including, but not limited to: sexual assault, domestic abuse, gore, and specific acts of violence or hatred

1. m.noxie.ch: suspension
2. mastodon.openjw.com: suspension
3. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension