A Mastodon server for creatives of all skill levels and AI-free art mediums — be it illustration, photography, crafts, music, writing & more. 100% powered by green energy, hosted in Germany.

Welcome to mastoart.social, a microblogging platform for creatives! We are a friendly international community that welcomes all skill levels and AI-free mediums – be it illustration, photography, crafts, music, writing and more.

• No ads, no tracking
• An active, friendly human moderation team
• Balanced federation for the widest possible audience
• Powered by green energy 🌱

Come join us and share your work with a multitude of communities across Mastodon and the Fediverse!

👥 The mastoart.social team

This server is administered and moderated by the team of @bestiaexmachina and @Kitty.

💬 Community guidelines

Topics

You are welcome to talk about anything you like, creativity-related or not, as long as it aligns with the server rules.

Building a community

Mastodon is an algorithm-free social network. In order to get your work seen across the Fediverse, building a relationship with your community is key. We highly recommend using hashtags, adding alt text — and most importantly — actively engaging with the people around you. Check out this thread for more tips!

Self-promotion

Promoting your own work, commissions and stores is welcome and encouraged. However, we ask that you maintain a balance between regular and promotional posts to maintain a sense of a community.

Cross-posting

You are welcome to share links to your other platforms. However, accounts that are exclusively or primarily used as automated or non-automated cross-posting mirrors to other platforms or Fediverse accounts may be subject to moderation.

🪙 Funding and donations

mastoart.social is run and funded on a volunteer basis and is free for our members to use. If you would like to chip in, consider a donation via one of the following services:

• Liberapay
• Patreon
• Ko-fi

Every little bit of voluntary support from our community means a lot to us and helps us continue doing what we do.

⚖️ Federation policy

We aim for an acceptable balance between reach and safety that allows our members to share their work with the widest possible audience while ensuring that they feel comfortable and safe on our server. For this reason, we primarily block individual bad actors and only resort to the defederation of entire servers in cases of particular hardship.

In addition, we encourage you to use the tools provided by Mastodon (e.g., filtering, muting, blocking and reporting) to curate your timeline according to your own preferences.

📜 Terms of service

mastoart.social commits to the Mastodon Server Covenant.

Moderation policy

We believe in friendly interaction, respect, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. The mastoart.social team reserves the right to moderate or remove content at their discretion if it is not in accordance with these values.

Laws and rules

This server is hosted in a German data center and therefore falls under German as well as EU law. In addition, the server rules apply.

Reliability

Do not use mastoart.social as a permanent repository for your posts, data or media, as we cannot guarantee the permanent storage of your content. We recommend that you regularly create local backups of your content to be safe in case of possible data loss.

Inactive accounts

Inactive accounts with no profile and/or five posts or less will be deleted one month after last login in order to free up storage space. Inactive accounts with more than five posts will be deleted six months after last login.

License and copyright

All original user-generated content on mastoart.social is copyright of the respective author and is not licensed for use by third parties unless otherwise stated.

Any form of scraping, downloading, indexing or collecting data from this server for the purpose of monetization, analysis and/or training of machine learning models (LLM/AI) without the express written consent of the respective authors and all administrators of mastoart.social is strictly prohibited.

Emojis

Fox emojis and Neocat by Volpeon, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Blobfox by Volpeon, licensed under Apache 2.0.

:cathuh:, :catbruh: and :catwtf: by machinesbleedtoo

Imprint

Yvonne Eisenhofer
c/o Autorenglück #18409
Albert-Einstein-Straße 47
02977 Hoyerswerda
Germany

The above address is for legal purposes only. Any form of private contact is prohibited. No parcels or packages – delivery will be refused.

Email: mastoadmin@mastoart.social

This server is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mastodon GmbH or Mastodon Inc.

1. Be kind and respectful
2. You must be a natural person
3. You must own the rights to the content you upload
4. No AI-generated content, no promotion of generative AI
5. No cryptocurrencies, NFTs or other transactional blockchain technology
6. No erotic photography
7. Nudity and non-explicit erotic content are considered NSFW (not safe for work) and must be marked as sensitive
8. No bulk-uploading images, no flooding
9. (Recommended) Add alt text to your media
10. No sexually explicit content
11. No misinformation
12. Characters in NSFW context must be clearly recognizable as adults
13. Common phobia or anxiety triggers must be put under a content warning