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!

Welcome to MontereyBay.social!

Established November 2022

From 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:

• @seb wrote about Regional Instances, Federation, and Scalability on the SFBA.social blog.
• Aram Zucker-Scharff makes a case for Why you should find the Mastodon instance that works for you on his blog.

You can find more detailed information about MontereyBay.social and the team behind this instance on hub.montereybay.social.

Moderation

Submit 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 people

I acknowledge that this is an unusual rule. I specifically call out hate speech against homeless individuals for two reasons:

1. 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.
2. 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 account

Here are some useful resources if you are moving here from another Mastodon instance:

• Patricia Aas has written a concise guide to moving to a new Mastodon server.
• @MastodonMigration@mastodon.online regularly posts tips on how to move as well as interesting statistics.
• The official Mastodon docs also have a page on migrating from one server to another.

More information

To 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.

1. Be excellent to each other! We are all humans who deserve respect and compassion.
2. Unsolicited messaging (spam) is not allowed. Self-promotion is fine, and we support local small businesses.
3. No hate speech, racism, pornography, slurs, discriminatory language, homophobic, or transphobic posts or language.
4. No discrimination or disparaging of unhoused people. See the About page for an explanation.
5. You must be 13 years of age or older to create an account on this instance.
6. Targeted misgendering, deadnaming, or promotion of so-called "conversion therapy" is prohibited.

1. *.activitypub-troll.cf: suspended (reason: DDoS attacker domain)
2. *.brighteon.social: suspended (reason: Trending posts on Brighteon violate rule 3: "no hate speech...transphobic posts or language")
3. *.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.)
4. *.misskey-forkbomb.cf: suspended (reason: DDoS domain)
5. *.repl.co: suspended (reason: DDoS domain)
6. 076.moe: suspended
7. 076.ne.jp: suspended
8. 101010.pl: limited
9. 10minutepleroma.com: suspended
10. 13bells.com: suspended
11. 1611.social: suspended
12. 4aem.com: suspended
13. 5dollah.click: suspended
14. 80percent.social: suspended
15. 8777.ch: suspended
16. 9yo.punipoka.pink: suspended (reason: iftas:csam)
17. a.sc: suspended
18. activitypub-proxy.cf: suspended
19. activitypub-troll.cf: suspended
20. adachi.party: suspended
21. addy.gg: suspended
22. adtension.com: suspended
23. aethy.com: suspended
24. agdersam.no: suspended
25. ai.wiki: suspended
26. alteregocreations.com: suspended
27. alterracloud.com: suspended (reason: harassment, hate-speech)
28. ancreport.com: suspended
29. ancreport.xyz: suspended
30. anemoneya.me: suspended
31. angrytoday.com: suspended
32. anime.website: suspended
33. annihilation.social: suspended (reason: lack of moderation, white nationalist postings)
34. anon-kenkai.com: suspended
35. arachnid.town: suspended
36. asbestos.cafe: suspended
37. asimon.org: suspended
38. asteroidm.space: suspended
39. ating.press: suspended
40. awakari.com: suspended
41. badly.co: suspended
42. bae.st: limited
43. bajax.us: suspended
44. banepo.st: suspended
45. baraag.net: suspended
46. bassam.social: suspended
47. battlepenguin.video: suspended
48. beefyboys.club: suspended
49. beefyboys.win: suspended
50. beepboop.ga: suspended
51. berserker.town: suspended
52. bgzashtita.es: suspended
53. bibly.com: suspended
54. bikeshed.party: suspended
55. birds.garden: suspended
56. bitcoinlizard.net: suspended
57. bitcointv.com: suspended
58. blob.cat: suspended
59. blockedur.mom: suspended
60. boks.moe: suspended
61. boymoder.biz: suspended
62. bozgor.org: suspended
63. brainsoap.net: suspended
64. breastmilk.club: suspended
65. brid.gy: suspended
66. brighteon.social: suspended
67. bsky.brid.gy: suspended (reason: Blocking opt-out-only bridge to Bluesky; https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106)
68. bubbletea.dev: suspended
69. bungle.online: suspended
70. burger.rodeo: suspended
71. cachapa.moe: suspended
72. cachapa.xyz: suspended
73. calobar.club: suspended
74. campduffel.social: suspended
75. cannibal.cafe: suspended
76. carnivore.social: suspended
77. catgirl.life: suspended
78. catposter.club: suspended
79. cawfee.club: suspended
80. cdrom.tokyo: suspended
81. childlove.space: suspended
82. childlove.su: suspended
83. childpawn.shop: suspended
84. chudbuds.lol: suspended
85. ckpg.space: suspended
86. clew.lol: suspended
87. clubcyberia.co: suspended
88. clube.social: suspended
89. collapsitarian.io: suspended
90. comfyboy.club: suspended
91. contrapointsfan.club: suspended
92. coolsite.win: suspended
93. cottoncandy.cafe: suspended
94. crlf.ninja: suspended
95. crucible.world: suspended
96. cryptodon.lol: limited
97. cryptotooter.com: suspended
98. cum.camp: suspended
99. cum.salon: suspended
100. cunnyborea.space: suspended
101. cunnyborea.top: suspended (reason: hate-speech, inappropriate, racism, spam, underage)
102. cutefunny.net: suspended (reason: spam, hate-speech, inappropriate, racism, underage)
103. cybercriminal.eu: suspended
104. cyberretards.xyz: suspended
105. cyberstorm.one: suspended
106. d-fens.systems: suspended
107. danksquad.org: suspended
108. darknight-coffee.org: suspended
109. daspr.io: suspended
110. decayable.ink: suspended
111. decept.org: suspended
112. declin.eu: suspended
113. dembased.xyz: suspended
114. desupost.soy: suspended
115. detroitriotcity.com: suspended
116. dev-wiki.de: suspended
117. dickkickextremist.xyz: suspended
118. dingdash.com: suspended
119. disqordia.space: suspended
120. dissident.business: suspended
121. dixies.land: suspended
122. djsumdog.com: suspended
123. dobbs.town: suspended
124. domain: suspended
125. dotnet00.dev: suspended
126. dragonpsi.xyz: suspended
127. drow.be: suspended
128. dtzbts.xyz: suspended
129. eatthebugs.social: suspended
130. ebin.club: suspended
131. eientei.org: suspended
132. elementality.org: suspended
133. emacs.ch: suspended
134. endtimebelievers.com: suspended
135. enjoyer.network: suspended
136. epenguin.com: suspended
137. epsilon.social: suspended
138. eskimo.com: suspended
139. esmailelbob.xyz: suspended
140. eveningzoo.club: suspended
141. ey.business: suspended
142. fbxl.net: suspended
143. federated.fun: suspended
144. fedposters.club: suspended
145. femboys.love: suspended
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150. fluf.club: suspended
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152. foxgirl.lol: suspended
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154. freak.university: suspended
155. freeatlantis.com: suspended
156. freecumextremist.com: suspended
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158. freedomstrike.org: suspended
159. freesoftwareextremist.com: suspended
160. freespeech.club: suspended
161. freespeech.group: suspended
162. freespeechextremist.com: suspended
163. freetalklive.com: suspended
164. freethinkers.lgbt: suspended
165. freezepeach.xyz: suspended
166. frennet.xyz: suspended
167. froth.zone: suspended
168. fsebugoutzone.org: suspended
169. fulltermprivacy.com: suspended
170. gab.ai: suspended
171. gab.com: suspended
172. gabe.rocks: suspended
173. gameliberty.club: suspended
174. gamers.exposed: suspended
175. gangstalking.services: suspended
176. gearlandia.haus: suspended
177. genderheretics.xyz: suspended
178. gensokyo.club: suspended
179. gentoo.live: suspended
180. geofront.rocks: suspended
181. gh0st.live: suspended
182. ghetti.monster: suspended
183. gleasonator.com: suspended
184. glee.li: suspended
185. glindr.org: suspended
186. glowers.club: suspended
187. gorf.pub: suspended
188. goyim.app: suspended
189. goyslop.cafe: suspended
190. guizzyordi.info: suspended
191. h5q.net: suspended (reason: dni)
192. haeder.net: suspended
193. hallsofamenti.io: suspended
194. handholding.io: suspended
195. handicapped.tk: suspended
196. harpy.faith: suspended
197. hedgehoghunter.club: suspended
198. helladoge.com: suspended
199. hendrixgames.com: suspended
200. hentai.baby: suspended
201. hermitmountain.top: suspended
202. hidamari.apartments: suspended
203. hirad.it: suspended
204. hitchhiker.social: suspended
205. homd.xyz: suspended
206. honkwerx.tech: suspended
207. hornyjail.pro: suspended
208. hunk.city: suspended
209. husk.site: suspended
210. icod.de: suspended
211. iddqd.social: suspended
212. ignorelist.com: suspended
213. imirhil.fr: suspended
214. imouto.pics: suspended (reason: underage, inappropriate, iftas:csam)
215. inferencium.net: suspended
216. intkos.link: suspended
217. inumbra.xyz: suspended
218. ironbug.org: suspended
219. justbros.xyz: suspended
220. justicewarrior.social: suspended
221. kabuki.club: suspended
222. kawa-kun.com: suspended
223. kawen.space: suspended
224. kelarima.com: suspended
225. kenhbit.com: suspended
226. kitsunemimi.club: suspended
227. kiwifarms.cc: suspended
228. kiwifarms.is: suspended
229. kiwifarms.net: suspended
230. kompost.cz: suspended
231. krackhou.se: suspended
232. kurosawa.moe: suspended
233. kyaruc.moe: suspended
234. kys.moe: suspended
235. lain.gay: suspended
236. lain.la: suspended
237. lain.sh: suspended
238. leafposter.club: suspended
239. leftychan.net: suspended
240. letsalllovela.in: suspended
241. lewdieheaven.com: suspended
242. lgbtfree.zone: suspended
243. liberdon.com: suspended
244. librem.one: suspended
245. librenet.co.za: suspended
246. librosphere.fr: suspended
247. ligma.pro: suspended
248. lizards.live: suspended
249. logografos.com: suspended
250. loli.church: suspended
251. lolicon.rocks: suspended
252. lolicon.win: suspended
253. lolison.network: suspended
254. lolison.top: suspended
255. longyap.name.my: suspended
256. loveforlandlords.com: suspended
257. lovingexpressions.net: suspended
258. lucasvl.nl: suspended
259. magicka.org: suspended
260. mahodou.moe: suspended
261. makemysarcophagus.com: suspended
262. maladaptive.art: suspended
263. mapsupport.de: suspended
264. marsey.club: suspended
265. masochi.st: suspended
266. mastertibbles.co.uk: suspended
267. masthead.social: limited
268. mastinator.com: limited
269. mastodon.cf: suspended
270. mastodon.la: suspended
271. mastodon.se: suspended
272. mastodong.lol: suspended
273. meatbag.app: suspended
274. meld.de: suspended
275. meme.moe: suspended
276. merovingian.club: suspended
277. midnightride.rs: suspended
278. midwaytrades.com: suspended
279. miku-enthusiast.club: suspended
280. milker.cafe: suspended
281. minds.com: suspended
282. minidisc.tokyo: suspended
283. mirr0r.city: suspended
284. miruku.cafe: suspended
285. misono-ya.info: suspended
286. misskey-forkbomb.cf: suspended
287. mitra.social: suspended
288. moa.st: suspended
289. monads.online: limited
290. mooo.com: suspended
291. morale.ch: suspended
292. mostr.pub: suspended
293. mouse.services: suspended
294. mrhands.horse: suspended
295. mstdn.jp: suspended
296. mugicha.club: suspended
297. mulmeyun.church: suspended
298. nalocal519.social: suspended
299. narrativerry.xyz: suspended
300. natehiggers.online: suspended
301. nationalist.social: suspended
302. nazi.social: suspended
303. neckbeard.xyz: suspended
304. needs.vodka: suspended
305. neenster.org: suspended
306. nekocave.xyz: suspended
307. neomobius.com: suspended (reason: dni)
308. nicecrew.digital: suspended
309. nightshift.social: suspended
310. niscii.xyz: suspended
311. nixnet.social: suspended
312. nnia.cc: suspended
313. nnia.space: suspended
314. noagendasocial.com: suspended
315. noagendasocial.nl: suspended
316. noagendatube.com: suspended
317. noauthority.social: suspended
318. nobodyhasthe.biz: suspended
319. normie.cafe: suspended
320. norwoodzero.net: suspended
321. novoa.nagoya: suspended
322. nukem.biz: suspended
323. nya.gay: suspended
324. nyanide.com: suspended
325. obo.sh: suspended
326. occultist.space: suspended
327. oddballs.online: suspended (reason: dni)
328. onionfarms.org: suspended
329. otakufarms.com: suspended
330. oti.st: suspended
331. outerkosm.us: suspended
332. outpoa.st: suspended
333. outrnat.nl: suspended
334. paravielfalt.zone: suspended
335. parcero.bond: suspended
336. pawlicker.com: suspended
337. pawoo.net: suspended
338. paypig.org: suspended
339. pedo.school: suspended
340. peervideo.club: suspended
341. pengi-san.moe: suspended
342. pettanko.art: suspended
343. piazza.today: suspended
344. pibvt.net: suspended
345. pieville.net: suspended
346. pirateradio.social: suspended
347. pisskey.io: suspended
348. pizzaf.art: suspended
349. pkteerium.xyz: suspended
350. plagu.ee: suspended
351. pmth.us: suspended
352. poa.st: suspended
353. poast.org: suspended
354. poast.tv: suspended
355. polaris-1.work: suspended
356. pone.social: suspended
357. pooper.social: suspended
358. poridge.club: suspended
359. porntoot.com: limited
360. posix.gay: suspended
361. poster.place: suspended
362. pouque.net: suspended
363. poweredbycocaine.com: suspended
364. preteengirls.biz: suspended
365. privex.social: suspended
366. prospeech.space: suspended
367. pseudo-whiskey.bar: suspended
368. psion.co: suspended
369. pube.tk: suspended
370. qoto.org: limited
371. quanta.wiki: suspended
372. quodverum.com: suspended
373. r18.social: suspended
374. raccoon.quest: suspended
375. rage.lol: suspended
376. rakket.app: suspended
377. rape.pet: suspended
378. rapefeminists.network: suspended
379. rapemeat.express: suspended
380. rapemeat.solutions: suspended
381. raspberrypi.social: limited
382. rayci.st: suspended
383. rcsocial.net: suspended
384. rdrama.cc: suspended
385. rebelbase.site: suspended
386. redplanetlabs.com: suspended
387. refusal.biz: suspended
388. refusal.llc: suspended
389. repl.co: suspended
390. republic.red: suspended
391. retardedniggers.forsale: suspended
392. rojogato.com: suspended
393. rot.gives: suspended
394. roysbeer.place: suspended
395. rqd2.net: suspended
396. ruinouspowe.rs: suspended
397. ryona.agency: suspended
398. sad.cab: suspended
399. satoshishop.de: suspended
400. saynoto.lgbt: suspended
401. schwartzwelt.xyz: suspended
402. scots.network: suspended
403. seal.cafe: suspended
404. servernerds.net: limited
405. shadowsocial.org: suspended
406. sharivegas.com: suspended
407. shaw.app: suspended
408. sheep.network: suspended
409. shigusegubu.club: suspended
410. shitpost.cloud: suspended
411. shitposter.club: suspended
412. shitposter.world: suspended
413. shortstackran.ch: suspended
414. shortstacksran.ch: suspended
415. shota.house: suspended
416. shota.social: suspended
417. shotatube.xyz: suspended
418. shpposter.club: suspended
419. shrimpcam.pw: suspended
420. shrimpposter.club: suspended
421. silliness.observer: suspended
422. skinheads.eu: suspended
423. skinheads.io: suspended
424. skinheads.social: suspended
425. skinheads.uk: suspended
426. skinnyver.se: suspended
427. skippers-bin.com: suspended
428. skyshanty.xyz: suspended
429. slash.cl: suspended
430. sleepy.cafe: suspended
431. smuglo.li: suspended
432. sneak.berlin: suspended
433. sneed.social: suspended
434. someotherguy.xyz: suspended
435. sonichu.com: suspended
436. soykaf.com: suspended
437. sperg.city: suspended
438. spinster.xyz: suspended
439. springbo.cc: suspended
440. squid.kids: suspended
441. starnix.network: suspended
442. staycuriousandkeepsmil.in: suspended
443. stereophonic.space: suspended
444. strelizia.net: suspended
445. supernets.social: suspended
446. syspxl.xyz: suspended
447. taihou.website: suspended
448. takesama.com: suspended
449. tastingtraffic.net: suspended
450. teci.world: suspended
451. terrible.place: suspended
452. theapex.social: suspended
453. thebag.social: suspended
454. theblab.org: suspended (reason: hate-speech, racism)
455. thechimp.zone: suspended
456. thenobody.club: suspended
457. thepostearthdestination.com: suspended
458. theres.life: suspended
459. thisisjoes.site: suspended
460. 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.)
461. tkammer.de: suspended
462. toot.pt: suspended
463. tooters.fun: suspended
464. touha.me: suspended
465. translunar.academy: suspended
466. troll.cafe: suspended
467. trumpislovetrumpis.life: suspended
468. truthsocial.co.in: suspended
469. tummy.town: suspended
470. turturea.online: suspended
471. twi.social: suspended (reason: dni)
472. tyil.nl: suspended
473. ua-fediland.de: suspended
474. udongein.xyz: suspended
475. umbrellix.org: suspended
476. unbound.social: suspended
477. unperson.us: suspended
478. unsafe.space: suspended
479. urchan.org: suspended
480. ursal.zone: suspended
481. urspringer.de: suspended
482. usualsuspects.lol: suspended
483. uwu.social: suspended
484. vampiremaid.cafe: suspended
485. varishangout.net: suspended
486. vfpmedia.com: suspended
487. vladtepesblog.com: suspended
488. vrij.social: suspended
489. vtuberfan.social: suspended
490. wagesofsinisdeath.com: suspended
491. waifuism.life: suspended
492. wake.st: suspended
493. weeaboo.space: suspended
494. whinge.house: suspended
495. whinge.town: suspended
496. whitewomen.dog: suspended
497. wideboys.org: suspended
498. wikileaks2.org: suspended
499. willtrade.org: suspended
500. wolfgirl.bar: suspended
501. workers.dev: suspended
502. worm.pink: suspended
503. writehere.is: suspended
504. wxw.moe: suspended
505. xenofem.me: suspended
506. xhais.love: suspended
507. xmrposter.club: suspended
508. xn--p1abe3d.xn--80asehdb: suspended
509. xscape.top: suspended
510. yesmap.net: suspended
511. yggdrasil.social: suspended
512. youjo.love: suspended
513. yukioke.com: suspended
514. zhub.link: suspended
515. zztails.gay: suspended