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Name Cathode Church
Languages English (en)
Users 324
Active users (last month) 132
Active users (last six months) 194
Characters per post (max) 2,048
Known instances 39,416
First sight Aug 18, 2026 UTC
Last successful check Sep 16, 2026 UTC
Noxious No
New Yes!
Software Mastodon 4.5.14+glitch.cathode
Registrations Open (by admin approval)
E-mail s0+@cathode.church
Meta’s Threads moderation Unknown (this instance is not listed in the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact list), and its list of moderated instances is not accessible.
Most used hashtags (last week) Not available
Short description
A place for trans makers, coders, tinkerers and dreamers.
Long description
The Church of Cathode
Cathode Church is a Mastodon instance on the Fediverse for trans and gender-diverse makers, coders and tinkerers.
It is intended to be a supportive, friendly, and creative online space.
Tenets
Courtesy
Harassment, vitriol, exploitation and abuse are not tolerated. This includes racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and other expressions of power across structural power/privilege differentials.
Respect and venerate the great constellation of human experience and self-expression, across gender, sexuality, neurology, psychology, body, ability, race, identity, culture, spirituality, et cetera.
Content warnings should be used in accordance with evolving community standards and the needs of fellow users.
Accounts posting content not suitable for minors such as pornography or explicit sexual content should be locked (require approval to follow) and clearly marked as 18+ only in the display name or bio. The account-holder must reject follow requests from users who do not make clear that they are over 18. All posts containing explicit material must also be content-warned as such and have media hidden.
Bot accounts are allowed, but must not interact with other users without their consent.
Copyrighted content should not be posted without permission, and always with credit, ideally hyperlinking to the author's online presence.
Solidarity
Cathode Church users are expected to educate themselves and support their fellows with different lived experiences, cultures, beliefs, and intersections of structural power. It is not the responsibility of those whose identity or experience you do not understand to explain themselves to those yet uninformed. Any education offered is a gift and should be respected as such.
No one person can champion all worthy causes, and bigotry cannot be fought on any single front alone. Respect the work of those who are dedicated to different parts of the fight. Respect the capacity of others.
Irradiate the Rich
As part of our Solidarity, always remember who the greater persecutor is, who is responsible for the ignorance of our peers, and oppression of our communities. Disagreements among us are important and natural but can obscure the greater perspective.
Intersectionality
Solidarity is meaningless without acknowledging and actively working against the multitudinous gradients of privilege/power any of us may hold over others. Consider your privileges and their ramifications when engaging with other users.
Privacy
Cathode Church users are not required or expected to disclose or externally verify any aspects of their identity or to administrators other than a functioning email for signup, excluding conditions agreed to during the sign-up process.
Creating or using alternate accounts to evade blocks, mutings, suspensions or silencings is not allowed by any users.
Advocacy
Instances with a history of permitting harassment, abusive behaviour, and spam by their users will be blocked, regardless of the wording of their policies.
Cathode Church administrators will stand behind users reporting harassment and personally follow up where necessary and wanted, maintaining the anonymity of our users where possible, including against other Cathode Church users.
Moderating disputes
Where a Cathode Church user is under investigation for violating the Tenets, they will be informed of such as soon as practical, and offered the right of defence through a moderator. No public announcements will be made until a final decision is settled, and only if the decision affects other parties (such as in the case of an outright ban of a serial harasser).
Both those accused and those reporting are requested to avoid non-conciliatory public interaction with each other, 'callouts', and the like, until moderating decisions have been made.
Ephemerality
The highest priority of Cathode Church is maintaining the safety of our users and this can contradict some assumptions of federating software regarding open access. The server is configured to reduce search indexing and unauthenticated viewing of the timeline or toots where selected. Known fulltext-indexers are blocked. Hosts detected attempting to scan/crawl media files will be blocked.
That said, it is not recommended to rely on the security of Mastodon/ActivityPub for private information.
Conclusion
To be considered for an account, you must confirm that you have read and understood these responsibilities and expectations, by mentioning the Tenets in the "Why do you want to join?" field. If you do not, your account will not be activated.
If you have any issues, email s0 at this domain.
Administrative details
Technical
Cathode Church is run off a VPS in Sydney, Australia, and uses OpenStack Object Storage also in Sydney for media storage. The site should be fully accessible via IPv6 and modern HTTPS/TLS.
Multiple Sessions
Inspired by vulpine.club's (RIP) setup, it is possible to maintain multiple separate sessions for separate accounts by using the subdomains 0.cathode.church, 1.cathode.church, 2.cathode.church, and 3.cathode.church.
Local-only Posting
Toots that end with 👁 or have "Local-only" enabled in the web interface are not federated from cathode.church to any other instance. They are only visible to Cathode Church users (following the toot visibility setting).
Donating
You can donate to the server's upkeep at s0's Ko-fi. It will be appreciated.
Art & Emoji
The background image of the Cathode skin is by the Weld System, and All Rights Reserved.
This instance uses hand-picked subsets of the following emoji sets:
Friendly Neighbour Instances
Cathode Church is a Mastodon instance on the Fediverse for trans and gender-diverse makers, coders and tinkerers.
It is intended to be a supportive, friendly, and creative online space.
Tenets
Courtesy
Harassment, vitriol, exploitation and abuse are not tolerated. This includes racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and other expressions of power across structural power/privilege differentials.
Respect and venerate the great constellation of human experience and self-expression, across gender, sexuality, neurology, psychology, body, ability, race, identity, culture, spirituality, et cetera.
Content warnings should be used in accordance with evolving community standards and the needs of fellow users.
Accounts posting content not suitable for minors such as pornography or explicit sexual content should be locked (require approval to follow) and clearly marked as 18+ only in the display name or bio. The account-holder must reject follow requests from users who do not make clear that they are over 18. All posts containing explicit material must also be content-warned as such and have media hidden.
Bot accounts are allowed, but must not interact with other users without their consent.
Copyrighted content should not be posted without permission, and always with credit, ideally hyperlinking to the author's online presence.
Solidarity
Cathode Church users are expected to educate themselves and support their fellows with different lived experiences, cultures, beliefs, and intersections of structural power. It is not the responsibility of those whose identity or experience you do not understand to explain themselves to those yet uninformed. Any education offered is a gift and should be respected as such.
No one person can champion all worthy causes, and bigotry cannot be fought on any single front alone. Respect the work of those who are dedicated to different parts of the fight. Respect the capacity of others.
Irradiate the Rich
As part of our Solidarity, always remember who the greater persecutor is, who is responsible for the ignorance of our peers, and oppression of our communities. Disagreements among us are important and natural but can obscure the greater perspective.
Intersectionality
Solidarity is meaningless without acknowledging and actively working against the multitudinous gradients of privilege/power any of us may hold over others. Consider your privileges and their ramifications when engaging with other users.
Privacy
Cathode Church users are not required or expected to disclose or externally verify any aspects of their identity or to administrators other than a functioning email for signup, excluding conditions agreed to during the sign-up process.
Creating or using alternate accounts to evade blocks, mutings, suspensions or silencings is not allowed by any users.
Advocacy
Instances with a history of permitting harassment, abusive behaviour, and spam by their users will be blocked, regardless of the wording of their policies.
Cathode Church administrators will stand behind users reporting harassment and personally follow up where necessary and wanted, maintaining the anonymity of our users where possible, including against other Cathode Church users.
Moderating disputes
Where a Cathode Church user is under investigation for violating the Tenets, they will be informed of such as soon as practical, and offered the right of defence through a moderator. No public announcements will be made until a final decision is settled, and only if the decision affects other parties (such as in the case of an outright ban of a serial harasser).
Both those accused and those reporting are requested to avoid non-conciliatory public interaction with each other, 'callouts', and the like, until moderating decisions have been made.
Ephemerality
The highest priority of Cathode Church is maintaining the safety of our users and this can contradict some assumptions of federating software regarding open access. The server is configured to reduce search indexing and unauthenticated viewing of the timeline or toots where selected. Known fulltext-indexers are blocked. Hosts detected attempting to scan/crawl media files will be blocked.
That said, it is not recommended to rely on the security of Mastodon/ActivityPub for private information.
Conclusion
To be considered for an account, you must confirm that you have read and understood these responsibilities and expectations, by mentioning the Tenets in the "Why do you want to join?" field. If you do not, your account will not be activated.
If you have any issues, email s0 at this domain.
Administrative details
Technical
Cathode Church is run off a VPS in Sydney, Australia, and uses OpenStack Object Storage also in Sydney for media storage. The site should be fully accessible via IPv6 and modern HTTPS/TLS.
Multiple Sessions
Inspired by vulpine.club's (RIP) setup, it is possible to maintain multiple separate sessions for separate accounts by using the subdomains 0.cathode.church, 1.cathode.church, 2.cathode.church, and 3.cathode.church.
Local-only Posting
Toots that end with 👁 or have "Local-only" enabled in the web interface are not federated from cathode.church to any other instance. They are only visible to Cathode Church users (following the toot visibility setting).
Donating
You can donate to the server's upkeep at s0's Ko-fi. It will be appreciated.
Art & Emoji
The background image of the Cathode skin is by the Weld System, and All Rights Reserved.
This instance uses hand-picked subsets of the following emoji sets:
- Mutant Standard emoji, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- Robomoji, a modified subset of the Mutant Standard emoji, which are also provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- Blob Emoji, which are licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
- Meowmoji, a modified subset of Blob Emoji, which are also licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
- Blobhaj emoji, by heatherhorns, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Dragn emoji, by @chr@cybre.space, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Neodog emoji by moonrabbits, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Friendly Neighbour Instances
Instance rules
- Courtesy
- Solidarity
- Irradiate the Rich
- Intersectionality
- Privacy
- Advocacy
- Ephemerality
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Statistics
Last 12 weeks activity (totals: 14464 statuses, 1101 logins, 6 registrations)
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Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
| 9/9/26, 2:16:44 AM UTC | 9/10/26, 1:43:31 AM UTC | 9/11/26, 2:04:01 AM UTC | 9/12/26, 1:01:27 AM UTC | 9/13/26, 1:13:45 AM UTC | 9/14/26, 1:50:41 AM UTC | 9/15/26, 2:19:25 AM UTC | 9/16/26, 1:31:07 AM UTC |
Succesful checks: 28/28 (100%)