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Users 39,269
Active users (last month) 2,126
Active users (last six months) 4,500
Characters per post (max) 1,024
Known instances 42,417
First sight Before Oct 14, 2020 UTC [?]
Last successful check Jul 2, 2025 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.3.7
Registrations Open
Meta’s Threads moderation Threads is limited, according to this instance’s list of moderated instances.
Most used hashtags (last week) gravy, CanadaDay, inthegoodoledays, ThickTrunkTuesday, TuneTuesday, legendaryguitarwork, DisabilityPrideMonth, TextureTuesday, GravyAFamousQuote
Short description
A Mastodon instance for the San Francisco Bay Area. Come on in and join us!
Long description
Welcome to SFBA.social!

We are the regional Mastodon instance for the San Francisco Bay Area. Everyone is welcome - Current/past Bay Area citizens, Bay Area admirers, and people who want to move here one day :-)

Yay-Area Resident?

Signs you are from the SF Bay Area:
http://www.daveyd.com/sanfranpol.html
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/18-signs-grew-san-francisco

Contributions

Our Admin/Mod team members are all volunteers. However, the costs for hosting this instance are now exceeding $1000/month.

Please consider contributing to our Instance: https://ko-fi.com/sfba_fedi

More Information

More information is available on the SFBA Community Hub

To submit a copyright claim, visit the DMCA Requests page on our community hub.
Instance rules
  1. Do not use slurs or racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or otherwise discriminatory or hateful jokes or language; or promote white supremacy, anti-Semitism, transphobia, casteist, or other hateful ideologies.
  2. Do not post content that is illegal in the USA or California.
  3. Do not harass anyone, participate in group harassment of anyone, or otherwise engage in name calling or personal attacks.
  4. Do not post or threaten to post other people’s personally identifying information (“doxxing”).
  5. Do not tone police.
  6. Do not “shitpost” hateful content
  7. Do not sell or promote cryptocurrencies or NFTs.
  8. Do not litigate moderation decisions on the timeline.
  9. Mark content that contains nudity, gore, violence, etc. as sensitive and clearly label it with a content warning and/or hashtag.
  10. Do not post spam.
  11. Organizations must be based in the SF Bay Area.
Moderated instances [?]
  1. 13bells.com: limited
  2. 3dp.chat: limited
  3. 9kb.me: limited
  4. a.sukazyo.cc: suspended
  5. ac.akirin.xyz: suspended
  6. acat.world: suspended
  7. activitypub-proxy.cf: suspended
  8. activitypub-troll.cf: suspended
  9. aether.run: limited
  10. airwaves.social: limited
  11. ak.parcero.casa: suspended
  12. akkoma.paranoiamachinery.com: suspended
  13. alive.bar: limited
  14. amarinha.gal: suspended
  15. andrew.xyz: limited
  16. archaeology.social: limited
  17. asbestos.cafe: limited
  18. asocial.social: suspended
  19. azemet.space: limited
  20. bae.st: limited
  21. baraag.net: suspended
  22. bassam.social: limited
  23. basstdn.jp: limited
  24. beefyboys.win: limited
  25. besties.com: limited
  26. beta.mstdn.cf: suspended
  27. bird.makeup: limited
  28. birdsite.wilde.cloud: suspended
  29. blahaj.finch.ink: limited
  30. bols.games: limited
  31. bondsdogs.com: limited
  32. bozgor.org: limited
  33. brands.town: limited
  34. brighteon.social: limited
  35. brokenhedge.org: limited
  36. caekis.love: suspended
  37. catcore.life: suspended
  38. channels.im: limited
  39. cherryberry.pink: limited
  40. childlove.space: suspended
  41. childlove.su: suspended
  42. childlove.top: suspended
  43. chinanews.social: suspended
  44. chudbuds.lol: suspended
  45. clew.lol: suspended
  46. closednetwork.social: limited
  47. cmm.fyi: limited
  48. comingto.org: suspended
  49. comunitate.ascorcluj.com: limited
  50. creativewriting.social: limited
  51. crosstalk.tech: limited
  52. cryptodon.lol: limited
  53. cryptotalks.social: suspended
  54. cubfucker.pro: suspended
  55. cubsex.lol: suspended
  56. cubsex.pictures: suspended
  57. cum.salon: suspended
  58. cunny.beauty: suspended
  59. cunnyborea.top: limited
  60. cutiepaws.org: suspended
  61. cuyes.mooo.com: limited
  62. cybersecurity.masto.host: limited
  63. daystorm.netz.org: limited
  64. decayable.ink: suspended
  65. det.social: limited
  66. detmi.social: limited
  67. detroitriotcity.com: suspended
  68. dicekey.jp: suspended
  69. digitaldata.social: limited
  70. discourse.helenprejean.org: limited
  71. don.neet.co.jp: limited
  72. dreamersreality.dev: limited
  73. dw.n1l.dev: limited
  74. educhat.social: limited
  75. edusocial.it: limited
  76. eientei.org: suspended
  77. elderscrolls.space: suspended
  78. electroverse.tech: limited
  79. entomophagy.world: limited
  80. eveningzoo.club: suspended
  81. exmormon.social: limited
  82. federate.net: limited
  83. federated.place: limited
  84. fedi-crimes.lexi.re: suspended
  85. fedi.buzz: suspended
  86. fedi.yesmap.net: suspended
  87. fetistodon.com: suspended
  88. forestver.se: limited
  89. foss.place: limited
  90. freeatlantis.com: suspended
  91. freecumextremist.com: limited
  92. freesocial.co: limited
  93. freespeechextremist.com: suspended
  94. freie-re.de: limited
  95. freifunk.social: suspended
  96. frennet.xyz: suspended
  97. fsebugoutzone.org: limited
  98. fuckgov.org: suspended
  99. furville.drinkanddrive.africa: suspended
  100. gab.com: suspended
  101. game-tecx.de: limited
  102. games.retrotalk.live: limited
  103. gametoots.de: limited
  104. gaydadon.jp: suspended
  105. genderheretics.xyz: limited
  106. gervtuber.de: limited
  107. graeber.social: limited
  108. groupsebelah.com: limited
  109. h5q.net: limited
  110. home.speakfree.social: limited
  111. humblr.social: suspended
  112. i.transmit.love: limited
  113. independent-media.co.uk: limited
  114. indiegameskey.net: suspended
  115. is.probablyabot.lol: suspended
  116. jiaojiao.org: suspended
  117. kalmar.social: limited
  118. kernkraft.social: limited
  119. kids.0px.io: suspended
  120. kidsarehot.fyi: suspended
  121. kinky.business: limited
  122. kira.zone: suspended
  123. kitsui.life: suspended
  124. kitsune.moe: suspended
  125. kokuusa.club: limited
  126. kommunismus.social: limited
  127. lawsocial.org: limited
  128. leafposter.club: suspended
  129. library.love: limited
  130. linke.social: limited
  131. locksport.space: limited
  132. loli.church: suspended
  133. lovelive-misskey.t1nyb0x.cloud: suspended
  134. m.corduba.tech: limited
  135. m.mxin.moe: limited
  136. m.n1l.dev: suspended
  137. m.techsocial.site: limited
  138. maaw.social: suspended
  139. makemysarcophagus.com: limited
  140. map-and-yap.club: suspended
  141. mapsupport.de: suspended
  142. mast-serv.site: suspended
  143. mastadon.astuto.cc: limited
  144. mastdn.social: limited
  145. mastinator.com: suspended
  146. mastnode.faith: limited
  147. mastodon-ero.xyz: limited
  148. mastodon-swiss.org: limited
  149. mastodon.acerbo.me: suspended
  150. mastodon.acm.org: limited
  151. mastodon.ashevillains.org: limited
  152. mastodon.buzhangjiuzhou.com: limited
  153. mastodon.cf: limited
  154. mastodon.cocamserverguild.com: suspended
  155. mastodon.com.py: limited
  156. mastodon.conquestuniverse.com: limited
  157. mastodon.education: limited
  158. mastodon.enitin.xyz: suspended
  159. mastodon.free-solutions.org: limited
  160. mastodon.frl: limited
  161. mastodon.gtmastodon.online: suspended
  162. mastodon.integrata-stiftung.de: limited
  163. mastodon.io.seg.br: limited
  164. mastodon.linuxmuster.net: limited
  165. mastodon.london: limited
  166. mastodon.mg: limited
  167. mastodon.mikmak.cc: limited
  168. mastodon.my: limited
  169. mastodon.openjw.com: suspended
  170. mastodon.sitejp.synology.me: suspended
  171. mastodon.sl: limited
  172. mastodon.svgun.ru: limited
  173. mastodon.thedirtydis.co: limited
  174. mastodon.top: limited
  175. mastodon.unpluggedrva.com: limited
  176. mastodon.wssmagazine.com: limited
  177. mastodon.zorqz.com: limited
  178. mastouille.fr: limited
  179. meetbeauties.social: limited
  180. mentalhealth-masto.com: limited
  181. merovingian.club: suspended
  182. metreee.com: suspended
  183. metsubo-jinrai.net: limited
  184. mi.c-at.jp: suspended
  185. mi.nakn.jp: limited
  186. milkiyatelier.quest: suspended
  187. minecraft.bktsk.com: suspended
  188. mineskey.xyz: suspended
  189. minor.cafe: suspended
  190. misskey-forkbomb.cf: suspended
  191. misskey.akatuki-host.com: suspended
  192. misskey.doujin.games: suspended
  193. misskey.ee: suspended
  194. misskey.favskey.online: suspended
  195. misskey.gfserver.jp: suspended
  196. misskey.gg: limited
  197. misskey.lalafell.org: suspended
  198. misskey.mofumofu.me: suspended
  199. misskey.pepabo.com: suspended
  200. misskey.shunrin.com: suspended
  201. misskey.suzuri.jp: suspended
  202. mk.chiwa.net: suspended
  203. mk.hoshisaki-h.com: suspended
  204. molaguay.xyz: limited
  205. morale.ch: suspended
  206. mostr.pub: suspended
  207. motern.media: limited
  208. mrhands.horse: suspended
  209. msky.xer0.us: suspended
  210. mst.universoalterno.es: limited
  211. mstdn.beer: limited
  212. mstdn.jp: suspended
  213. mstdn.penguinhub.org: limited
  214. mugicha.club: limited
  215. n7.social: suspended
  216. nafo.uk: limited
  217. nagomisskey.com: limited
  218. nasface.cz: limited
  219. nationalist.social: suspended
  220. neckbeard.xyz: suspended
  221. nekton.social: suspended
  222. neomobius.com: limited
  223. neuroscience-mastodon.com: limited
  224. neuss.social: limited
  225. nicecrew.digital: suspended
  226. niederbayern.social: limited
  227. noagendasocial.com: suspended
  228. noauthority.social: suspended
  229. nobodyhasthe.biz: suspended
  230. norwoodzero.net: suspended
  231. nsfwmisskey.narazaka.net: suspended
  232. nycity.social: limited
  233. obo.sh: limited
  234. onion.social: limited
  235. osten.social: limited
  236. outpoa.st: suspended
  237. owo.town: limited
  238. oyasumi.ski: suspended
  239. parcero.bond: suspended
  240. pawoo.net: suspended
  241. phyrexia.ru: limited
  242. piaille.fr: limited
  243. piclub.social: suspended
  244. pieville.net: suspended
  245. pika.moe: suspended
  246. pl.firelink.digital: suspended
  247. poa.st: suspended
  248. porntoot.com: suspended
  249. portside.social: limited
  250. poster.place: suspended
  251. pravda.me: limited
  252. puls.social: suspended
  253. px.mathias777.com: limited
  254. pxlmo.net: limited
  255. qaf.men: limited
  256. quakers.social: limited
  257. queer.dev: limited
  258. rally.guide: limited
  259. rapemeat.solutions: suspended
  260. ravenation.club: limited
  261. rdrama.cc: suspended
  262. rebelbase.site: limited
  263. repl.co: suspended
  264. republic.red: limited
  265. rhythmisskey.games: suspended
  266. rope-access-work.com: limited
  267. rtypedbs.hostdon.ne.jp: limited
  268. ryona.agency: suspended
  269. sacred.harpy.faith: suspended
  270. scfzfilm.org: limited
  271. seal.cafe: suspended
  272. seda.social: limited
  273. seldo.dev: limited
  274. shitpost.cloud: suspended
  275. shitposter.club: suspended
  276. shitposter.world: suspended
  277. shortstacksran.ch: suspended
  278. shotgunlife.social: limited
  279. sinblr.com: suspended
  280. skinheads.eu: suspended
  281. skinheads.social: suspended
  282. skinheads.uk: suspended
  283. sldon.com: limited
  284. sneed.social: suspended
  285. social.cezeri.tech: limited
  286. social.cutefunny.net: limited
  287. social.drastical.tech: suspended
  288. social.ergo-research.org: suspended
  289. social.foederiert.de: limited
  290. social.freysa.ai: limited
  291. social.lovingexpressions.net: suspended
  292. social.mastodon.site: suspended
  293. social.onlinesession.app: suspended
  294. social.pogo.community: limited
  295. social.vegan.im.it: limited
  296. sotl.social: limited
  297. squabble.org: limited
  298. startrekshitposting.com: suspended
  299. supernets.social: limited
  300. switter.at: suspended
  301. tambayan.us: limited
  302. tastingtraffic.net: suspended
  303. tcpcat.net: limited
  304. tech.retrotalk.live: limited
  305. terere.social: limited
  306. the.asbestos.cafe: suspended
  307. thebigeasy.space: limited
  308. thewiring.com: limited
  309. thoughtful.social: limited
  310. threads.com: limited
  311. threads.net: limited
  312. ti.parcero.casa: suspended
  313. tickler.cc: suspended
  314. ticos.social: limited
  315. toot.berlin: limited
  316. toot.poedelwitz.de: limited
  317. toot.quest: limited
  318. tootnet.nl: limited
  319. toots.258990001.xyz: limited
  320. transforthe.win: limited
  321. truthsocial.co.in: limited
  322. truthsocial.st: limited
  323. tty0.social: limited
  324. tweet.pasture.moe: suspended
  325. twi.social: suspended
  326. uma-aji.com: suspended
  327. unicuskey.com: suspended
  328. urlex.org: suspended
  329. urweibo.com: suspended
  330. usasa.ky: suspended
  331. videochina.net: limited
  332. vigaucho.eu: limited
  333. vipgirlfriend.xxx: suspended
  334. volk.network: suspended
  335. waterlily.tokyo: limited
  336. webmasto.online: suspended
  337. wellcr.app: limited
  338. westen.social: limited
  339. whitesmokebbq.social: limited
  340. witten.social: limited
  341. wpmastodon.es: limited
  342. wulf.social: limited
  343. www.blabbergoats.com: limited
  344. www.gctaisentl.com: suspended
  345. x.4j.ee: limited
  346. xn--p1abe3d.xn--80asehdb: suspended
  347. yggdrasil.social: suspended
Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
  1. bdsm-jp.club: limitation
  2. eldritch.cafe: limitation
  3. french-take.pt: limitation
  4. lacommu.net: limitation
  5. mastodon.openjw.com: suspension
  6. monsterfuckers.online: suspension
  7. mytter.jp: suspension
  8. sunbeam.city: suspension
  9. supebase.com: suspension
Date of creation Jun 1, 2023 UTC
Display name SFBA Moderators
Bio
The official account of the SFBA Moderators.
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Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
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