What is Mastodon?General InformationC.IM is a general, mainly English-speaking Mastodon community.
We fully subscribe to and comply with the
Mastodon Server Covenant. A number of instance blocks are implemented to comply with the principles of the covenant.
Our goal is to provide a long-term fediverse platform for everyone to share their thoughts, ideas and lifestyles.
Detailed rulesThe following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of c.im; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:
- The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
- Excessive advertising
- Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
- Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
- Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
- The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
- Racism or advocation of racism
- Sexism or advocation of sexism
- Casteism or advocation of casteism
- Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
- Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
- Spreading disinformation or conspiracy theories that undermine public health
You are encouraged to share your personal experiences here. But in doing so, please do not engage in personal attacks or make broad statements that attack/offend others - simply because of who they are.
proposal by @fallingbeam - The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
- Sexual depictions of children
- Content illegal in the Netherlands (where c.im is hosted) or the Isle of Man (where c.im domain is registered), including holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
- Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
- Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
- Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
- Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
- Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.
These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.
Most of our rules are forked from
mas.toCustom emojis are forked from
EmojiALLMedia RetentionWe currently keep local media files forever unless the user delete it.
We currently keep all remote media files for 90 days.
DonationsWe have enough funds to run this instance, no donations needed.
Bot AccountsBot accounts are allowed, but you need to set the toot visibility to unlisted and mark your accounts to Bot.
The following bots are maintained by C.IM team:
Blocked CountriesThe following countries are banned due to mass spams:
- Bangladesh
- China
- Vietnam
SoapboxIf you don't like the default Mastodon UI, you can try our Soapbox at
https://fe.c.im/. Please note if you enable 2FA for security purpose, you can't use Soapbox. However, you can use the official Soapbox
here.
Pleroma & RebasedIf you don't like Mastodon, you can try out
Rebased instance at
c.wtf. Same site rules applied.
LemmyYou are welcome to join our own Lemmy instance
R.NF and post any questions regarding C.IM
hereRelay ServiceWe maintain our relay service at
https://relay.c.im/. For Mastodon webmasters, you can add
https://relay.c.im/inbox if you want to use our relay services.
C.IM Moderator TeamModerationModeration of this instance is based on interpretation of content posted to the instance against our published rules. We do not have the ability to investigate content outside this instance. If you are concerned about content posted to other instances, please contact the administration of the instance.