We are building Equel as the safest and most productive professional community platform.
Unlike most other platforms, we require our members to use their real identities to facilitate building trust and a professional reputation. We ensure real identities by asking our members to authenticate with LinkedIn.
This community is for you if:
- You are an entrepreneur and want to grow your business.
- You are a creator and want to achieve thought leadership in the area of your expertise.
- You want to advocate a cause that you deeply care about.
- You want to mingle and discuss with like-minded professionals to learn from them.
Our mobile apps on App and Play Stores have the following features:
- professional communities
- topic-based group chats
- discovery of people, communities, chats, and posts
- cross-posting to LinkedIn
- this all in a gorgeous and familiar user experience
Our shared valuesWe expect all our members to adhere to the following values:
Give First. Always contribute to others before asking for help or favors. It is easy, and it makes you a good person.
Be inclusive. Support one another, including underrepresented people. We reward actions that bring people together and include them in discussions.
Be responsible. Algorithms can turn your influence into a superpower: use it responsibly to further good causes. Don’t use your power to attack, but to heal.
Foster genuine interactions. Be fully engaged in conversations, take the time to explain your point of view, and seek to understand the other person. Help us stay spam-free by reporting spammy content, such as repetitive comments or unsolicited commercial outreaches.
Be mindful, respectful, and honest. Be respectful of people: think before reacting, respect members’ privacy, avoid defamation, and credit people when due. Seek to create a safe space to build the trust needed for deeper connections.
When you choose to join our community, you have implied that you agree with our values and will follow our rules for posting and participating. We will moderate accordingly.
Moderation PrinciplesReported content will be assessed on a balance of probabilities by the moderators. In other words, whether it is more likely than not that the content violates one or more of these rules. We will suspend an account from equel.social when the user demonstrates that they have breached any rule several times or if their content (including profile description) suggests that they are likely to continue to break the rules. The number of breaches leading to suspension is deliberately not defined. In egregious cases, one breach can result in the suspension of the user account.
Offering a safe space to our members is paramount. We take a pragmatic approach to every report we receive - if we feel that a problematic post isn’t explicitly a breach of any of these rules but is inappropriate for equel.social, the post will likely be removed. Users who repeatedly post problematic content or are seen by the administrators as a negative, disruptive presence in our community will be removed, even if those posts or the user did not explicitly violate our rules.
StaffThis server has the following administrators and moderators:
@Serena @Mikko @Aarni