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Active users (last six months) 25
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Known instances 19,530
First sight Nov 23, 2022 UTC
Last successful check Oct 12, 2024 UTC
Noxious No
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Software Mastodon 4.2.12
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Meta’s Threads moderation Threads is limited, according to this instance’s list of moderated instances.
Short description
An instance for the Monterey Bay area -- Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey counties. Let's talk about this amazing place where we live and share the beauty of the Central Coast with the world!
Long description
Welcome to MontereyBay.social!Established November 2022From Santa Cruz to Salinas, Monterey to Bonny Doon, we live in an amazing area. MontereyBay.social is the place for locals to hang out and talk about who we are and why we make this our home.
Concerned about joining a smaller community? Here are a couple of articles that talk about why you might want to consider a local instance:
You can find more detailed information about MontereyBay.social and the team behind this instance on
hub.montereybay.social.
ModerationSubmit moderation requests to
@paul@montereybay.social or
support@montereybay.social. Please be familiar with the Server Rules listed below as they will be enforced. Our
privacy policy is also available.
No discrimination against unhoused peopleI acknowledge that this is an unusual rule. I specifically call out hate speech against homeless individuals for two reasons:
- In the United States, there are few if any social consequences to openly discriminating against the unhoused. Discrimination leads to poor physical and mental health outcomes and is recognized as a violation of human rights by the United Nations.
- My family has direct, lived experience with homelessness. My spouse works for a nonprofit that provides services to unhoused people. We believe that housing is a right.
What you post on
other social networks is your own business, of course.
Moving to a new accountHere are some useful resources if you are moving here from another Mastodon instance:
More informationTo submit a DMCA request, contact
@paul@montereybay.social or
support@obscure.com.
This instance is hosted in the United States and follows all the laws of that country and the State of California.
Instance rules
- Be excellent to each other! We are all humans who deserve respect and compassion.
- Unsolicited messaging (spam) is not allowed. Self-promotion is fine, and we support local small businesses.
- No hate speech, racism, pornography, slurs, discriminatory language, homophobic, or transphobic posts or language.
- No discrimination or disparaging of unhoused people. See the About page for an explanation.
- You must be 13 years of age or older to create an account on this instance.
- Targeted misgendering, deadnaming, or promotion of so-called "conversion therapy" is prohibited.
Moderated instances [?]
- *.activitypub-troll.cf: suspended (reason: DDoS attacker domain)
- *.brighteon.social: suspended (reason: Trending posts on Brighteon violate rule 3: "no hate speech...transphobic posts or language")
- *.mastinator.com: suspended (reason: This domain allows anyone to follow Fediverse accounts anonymously, which bypasses a member’s ability to restrict who can read their posts.)
- *.misskey-forkbomb.cf: suspended (reason: DDoS domain)
- *.repl.co: suspended (reason: DDoS domain)
- 076.moe: suspended
- 076.ne.jp: suspended
- 101010.pl: limited
- 10minutepleroma.com: suspended
- 13bells.com: suspended
- 1611.social: suspended
- 4aem.com: suspended
- 5dollah.click: suspended
- 80percent.social: suspended
- 8777.ch: suspended
- 9yo.punipoka.pink: suspended (reason: iftas:csam)
- a.sc: suspended
- activitypub-proxy.cf: suspended
- activitypub-troll.cf: suspended
- adachi.party: suspended
- addy.gg: suspended
- adtension.com: suspended
- aethy.com: suspended
- agdersam.no: suspended
- ai.wiki: suspended
- alteregocreations.com: suspended
- alterracloud.com: suspended (reason: harassment, hate-speech)
- ancreport.com: suspended
- ancreport.xyz: suspended
- anemoneya.me: suspended
- angrytoday.com: suspended
- anime.website: suspended
- annihilation.social: suspended (reason: lack of moderation, white nationalist postings)
- anon-kenkai.com: suspended
- arachnid.town: suspended
- asbestos.cafe: suspended
- asimon.org: suspended
- asteroidm.space: suspended
- ating.press: suspended
- awakari.com: suspended
- badly.co: suspended
- bae.st: limited
- bajax.us: suspended
- banepo.st: suspended
- baraag.net: suspended
- bassam.social: suspended
- battlepenguin.video: suspended
- beefyboys.club: suspended
- beefyboys.win: suspended
- beepboop.ga: suspended
- berserker.town: suspended
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- bikeshed.party: suspended
- birds.garden: suspended
- bitcoinlizard.net: suspended
- bitcointv.com: suspended
- blob.cat: suspended
- blockedur.mom: suspended
- boks.moe: suspended
- boymoder.biz: suspended
- bozgor.org: suspended
- brainsoap.net: suspended
- breastmilk.club: suspended
- brid.gy: suspended
- brighteon.social: suspended
- bsky.brid.gy: suspended (reason: Blocking opt-out-only bridge to Bluesky; https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106)
- bubbletea.dev: suspended
- bungle.online: suspended
- burger.rodeo: suspended
- cachapa.moe: suspended
- cachapa.xyz: suspended
- calobar.club: suspended
- campduffel.social: suspended
- cannibal.cafe: suspended
- carnivore.social: suspended
- catgirl.life: suspended
- catposter.club: suspended
- cawfee.club: suspended
- cdrom.tokyo: suspended
- childlove.space: suspended
- childlove.su: suspended
- childpawn.shop: suspended
- chudbuds.lol: suspended
- ckpg.space: suspended
- clew.lol: suspended
- clubcyberia.co: suspended
- clube.social: suspended
- collapsitarian.io: suspended
- comfyboy.club: suspended
- contrapointsfan.club: suspended
- coolsite.win: suspended
- cottoncandy.cafe: suspended
- crlf.ninja: suspended
- crucible.world: suspended
- cryptodon.lol: limited
- cryptotooter.com: suspended
- cum.camp: suspended
- cum.salon: suspended
- cunnyborea.space: suspended
- cunnyborea.top: suspended (reason: hate-speech, inappropriate, racism, spam, underage)
- cutefunny.net: suspended (reason: spam, hate-speech, inappropriate, racism, underage)
- cybercriminal.eu: suspended
- cyberretards.xyz: suspended
- cyberstorm.one: suspended
- d-fens.systems: suspended
- danksquad.org: suspended
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- decayable.ink: suspended
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- dev-wiki.de: suspended
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- dobbs.town: suspended
- domain: suspended
- dotnet00.dev: suspended
- dragonpsi.xyz: suspended
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- eatthebugs.social: suspended
- ebin.club: suspended
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- gamers.exposed: suspended
- gangstalking.services: suspended
- gearlandia.haus: suspended
- genderheretics.xyz: suspended
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- geofront.rocks: suspended
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- ghetti.monster: suspended
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- glee.li: suspended
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- glowers.club: suspended
- gorf.pub: suspended
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- hitchhiker.social: suspended
- homd.xyz: suspended
- honkwerx.tech: suspended
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- imouto.pics: suspended (reason: underage, inappropriate, iftas:csam)
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- kitsunemimi.club: suspended
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- kurosawa.moe: suspended
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- lain.la: suspended
- lain.sh: suspended
- leafposter.club: suspended
- leftychan.net: suspended
- letsalllovela.in: suspended
- lewdieheaven.com: suspended
- lgbtfree.zone: suspended
- liberdon.com: suspended
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- librenet.co.za: suspended
- librosphere.fr: suspended
- ligma.pro: suspended
- lizards.live: suspended
- logografos.com: suspended
- loli.church: suspended
- lolicon.rocks: suspended
- lolicon.win: suspended
- lolison.network: suspended
- lolison.top: suspended
- longyap.name.my: suspended
- loveforlandlords.com: suspended
- lovingexpressions.net: suspended
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- magicka.org: suspended
- mahodou.moe: suspended
- makemysarcophagus.com: suspended
- maladaptive.art: suspended
- mapsupport.de: suspended
- marsey.club: suspended
- masochi.st: suspended
- mastertibbles.co.uk: suspended
- masthead.social: limited
- mastinator.com: limited
- mastodon.cf: suspended
- mastodon.la: suspended
- mastodon.se: suspended
- mastodong.lol: suspended
- meatbag.app: suspended
- meld.de: suspended
- meme.moe: suspended
- merovingian.club: suspended
- midnightride.rs: suspended
- midwaytrades.com: suspended
- miku-enthusiast.club: suspended
- milker.cafe: suspended
- minds.com: suspended
- minidisc.tokyo: suspended
- mirr0r.city: suspended
- miruku.cafe: suspended
- misono-ya.info: suspended
- misskey-forkbomb.cf: suspended
- mitra.social: suspended
- moa.st: suspended
- monads.online: limited
- mooo.com: suspended
- morale.ch: suspended
- mostr.pub: suspended
- mouse.services: suspended
- mrhands.horse: suspended
- mstdn.jp: suspended
- mugicha.club: suspended
- mulmeyun.church: suspended
- nalocal519.social: suspended
- narrativerry.xyz: suspended
- natehiggers.online: suspended
- nationalist.social: suspended
- nazi.social: suspended
- neckbeard.xyz: suspended
- needs.vodka: suspended
- neenster.org: suspended
- nekocave.xyz: suspended
- neomobius.com: suspended (reason: dni)
- nicecrew.digital: suspended
- nightshift.social: suspended
- niscii.xyz: suspended
- nixnet.social: suspended
- nnia.cc: suspended
- nnia.space: suspended
- noagendasocial.com: suspended
- noagendasocial.nl: suspended
- noagendatube.com: suspended
- noauthority.social: suspended
- nobodyhasthe.biz: suspended
- normie.cafe: suspended
- norwoodzero.net: suspended
- novoa.nagoya: suspended
- nukem.biz: suspended
- nya.gay: suspended
- nyanide.com: suspended
- obo.sh: suspended
- occultist.space: suspended
- oddballs.online: suspended (reason: dni)
- onionfarms.org: suspended
- otakufarms.com: suspended
- oti.st: suspended
- outerkosm.us: suspended
- outpoa.st: suspended
- outrnat.nl: suspended
- paravielfalt.zone: suspended
- parcero.bond: suspended
- pawlicker.com: suspended
- pawoo.net: suspended
- paypig.org: suspended
- pedo.school: suspended
- peervideo.club: suspended
- pengi-san.moe: suspended
- pettanko.art: suspended
- piazza.today: suspended
- pibvt.net: suspended
- pieville.net: suspended
- pirateradio.social: suspended
- pisskey.io: suspended
- pizzaf.art: suspended
- pkteerium.xyz: suspended
- plagu.ee: suspended
- pmth.us: suspended
- poa.st: suspended
- poast.org: suspended
- poast.tv: suspended
- polaris-1.work: suspended
- pone.social: suspended
- pooper.social: suspended
- poridge.club: suspended
- porntoot.com: limited
- posix.gay: suspended
- poster.place: suspended
- pouque.net: suspended
- poweredbycocaine.com: suspended
- preteengirls.biz: suspended
- privex.social: suspended
- prospeech.space: suspended
- pseudo-whiskey.bar: suspended
- psion.co: suspended
- pube.tk: suspended
- qoto.org: limited
- quanta.wiki: suspended
- quodverum.com: suspended
- r18.social: suspended
- raccoon.quest: suspended
- rage.lol: suspended
- rakket.app: suspended
- rape.pet: suspended
- rapefeminists.network: suspended
- rapemeat.express: suspended
- rapemeat.solutions: suspended
- raspberrypi.social: limited
- rayci.st: suspended
- rcsocial.net: suspended
- rdrama.cc: suspended
- rebelbase.site: suspended
- redplanetlabs.com: suspended
- refusal.biz: suspended
- refusal.llc: suspended
- repl.co: suspended
- republic.red: suspended
- retardedniggers.forsale: suspended
- rojogato.com: suspended
- rot.gives: suspended
- roysbeer.place: suspended
- rqd2.net: suspended
- ruinouspowe.rs: suspended
- ryona.agency: suspended
- sad.cab: suspended
- satoshishop.de: suspended
- saynoto.lgbt: suspended
- schwartzwelt.xyz: suspended
- scots.network: suspended
- seal.cafe: suspended
- servernerds.net: limited
- shadowsocial.org: suspended
- sharivegas.com: suspended
- shaw.app: suspended
- sheep.network: suspended
- shigusegubu.club: suspended
- shitpost.cloud: suspended
- shitposter.club: suspended
- shitposter.world: suspended
- shortstackran.ch: suspended
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- shota.house: suspended
- shota.social: suspended
- shotatube.xyz: suspended
- shpposter.club: suspended
- shrimpcam.pw: suspended
- shrimpposter.club: suspended
- silliness.observer: suspended
- skinheads.eu: suspended
- skinheads.io: suspended
- skinheads.social: suspended
- skinheads.uk: suspended
- skinnyver.se: suspended
- skippers-bin.com: suspended
- skyshanty.xyz: suspended
- slash.cl: suspended
- sleepy.cafe: suspended
- smuglo.li: suspended
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- sneed.social: suspended
- someotherguy.xyz: suspended
- sonichu.com: suspended
- soykaf.com: suspended
- sperg.city: suspended
- spinster.xyz: suspended
- springbo.cc: suspended
- squid.kids: suspended
- starnix.network: suspended
- staycuriousandkeepsmil.in: suspended
- stereophonic.space: suspended
- strelizia.net: suspended
- supernets.social: suspended
- syspxl.xyz: suspended
- taihou.website: suspended
- takesama.com: suspended
- tastingtraffic.net: suspended
- teci.world: suspended
- terrible.place: suspended
- theapex.social: suspended
- thebag.social: suspended
- theblab.org: suspended (reason: hate-speech, racism)
- thechimp.zone: suspended
- thenobody.club: suspended
- thepostearthdestination.com: suspended
- theres.life: suspended
- thisisjoes.site: suspended
- threads.net: limited (reason: Putting threads.net on a "limit" setting, which means you can follow folks on Threads but other members on montereybay.social will not see content in the live and trending feeds. Open to feedback/comments.)
- tkammer.de: suspended
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- tooters.fun: suspended
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- troll.cafe: suspended
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- twi.social: suspended (reason: dni)
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- vtuberfan.social: suspended
- wagesofsinisdeath.com: suspended
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- weeaboo.space: suspended
- whinge.house: suspended
- whinge.town: suspended
- whitewomen.dog: suspended
- wideboys.org: suspended
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- willtrade.org: suspended
- wolfgirl.bar: suspended
- workers.dev: suspended
- worm.pink: suspended
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- xhais.love: suspended
- xmrposter.club: suspended
- xn--p1abe3d.xn--80asehdb: suspended
- xscape.top: suspended
- yesmap.net: suspended
- yggdrasil.social: suspended
- youjo.love: suspended
- yukioke.com: suspended
- zhub.link: suspended
- zztails.gay: suspended
Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
None
Date of creation Nov 22, 2022 UTC
Display name Paul Mietz Egli
Bio
(he/him) Santa Cruz local since 2001 | montereybay.social admin | Sr Technical Program Manager @ AWS Nonprofits
Statistics
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