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Users 10
Active users (last month) 2
Active users (last six months) 2
Characters per post (max) 500
Known instances 10,314
First sight Dec 7, 2022 UTC
Last successful check Oct 4, 2024 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.2.10
Registrations Closed
Meta’s Threads moderation Threads is neither suspended nor limited, according to this instance’s list of moderated instances.
Most used hashtags (last week) mastodon, blackmastodon, Palestine, writing, twitter, covid, tech, donaldtrump, jazz, australia
Short description
A Mastodon instance maintained by @waltwooton for residents of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the surrounding area. With enough support, it will become part of a nonprofit local media cooperative.
Long description
spartanburg.social is a social media site based on Mastodon designed for the use of current and former residents in and around Spartanburg, S.C. It's part of the Sparkle City Media Hub, an effort to establish nonprofit local media in Spartanburg, including local social media, a website for long-form journalism, a daily newsletter, podcasts, videos, etc.

Keeping the lights on

There's no advertising on spartanburg.social. Neither is your activity tracked and sold to Big Data. But of course there's no such thing as a free lunch. Those who can afford it are encouraged to contribute at the spartanburg.social Patreon site. Your money will support this site as well as our effort to establish other forms of local media in Spartanburg. Our purpose is to establish a place for conversations by and about Spartanburg.

What is Mastodon?

Mastodon is a micro-blogging site similar to Twitter or Tumblr. The difference is that it's based on an open standard called ActivityPub that anyone can use. Mastodon is developed by a German non-profit, Mastodon gGmbH, and it is used by hundreds of instances (servers) around the globe. These sites each set up their own rules, moderate the posts of their own users, and decide which other sites they will exchange posts with.

No one person in control of Mastodon as a whole, just people or groups who run individual instances. There are no ads nor algorithms that determine what you see. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, or Tik-Tok, there is no corporate surveillance of what you do. Data stored on spartanburg.social is kept on servers within the United States, and is only available to law enforement with a subpoena.

You can access Mastodon from any web browser or from dedicated phone apps from Mastodon and other developers.

Moving from another server?

This guide may be helpful.

A note about direct messaging on Mastodon

Just as with Twitter, any DMs you send on Mastodon are unencrypted and potentially visible to server administrators. We recommend you always use an encrypted messaging service like WhatsApp or Signal. Even then, your messages are available to anyone with access to your phone.

Who the heck are you?

The co-founders of the Sparkle City Media Project are Walt Wooton and Chandra L. Pierce.

@waltwooton was the systems editor at the Herald-Journal from 1995 – 2013. Prior to that he was the operations manager at the The Independent Florida Alligator (Gainesville, FL). He has also been a freelance magazine writer published in The Floridian (former Sunday magazine of the St. Petersburg Times) Florida Trend, Florida Sportsman, Florida Audubon, and elsewhere. He was involved in the startup of online news sites both at the Herald-Journal and at the Alligator. In 2005, he won first place in enterprise reporting from the South Carolina Press Association.

@chanlp was the news research manager at the Herald-Journal, from 2000 to 2006. In 2004, she won the Judson Chapman award from the South Carolina Press Association for uncovering failings in the state sex offender registry. She has an M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina and is the Director of Learning Resources at Sherman College of Chiropractic.

How you can help

Want to help? We need writers, activists, business gurus, coders, and others. Email us at Walt Wooton or Chandra L. Pierce.
Instance rules
  1. No sexually explicit or violent media
  2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism;
  3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
  4. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
  5. No content illegal in the United States
  6. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
  7. You must be 13 years old or older to register as a user on this service
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Date of creation Dec 1, 2022 UTC
Display name Walt Wooton
Bio
Herder of cats. Teller of tales. Wrangler of truths.

Former systems editor, (Spartanburg, SC) Herald-Journal; former operations manager of the The Independent Florida Alligator (Gainesville, FL); freelance magazine writer published in The Floridian (former Sunday magazine of the St. Petersburg Times) Florida Trend, Florida Sportsman, Florida Audubon.

Currently working to start a local media nonprofit in Spartanburg, SC.

I mute posts that make accusations without links to evidence.
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