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Code of Conduct

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of lgbt.io; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:

1. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
   
   
   1. Excessive advertising
   2. Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
   3. Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
   4. Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
   
   
2. 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:
   
   
   1. Racism or advocation of racism
   2. Sexism or advocation of sexism
   3. Casteism or advocation of casteism
   4. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   5. Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
   
   
3. The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
   
   
   1. Sexual depictions of children, such as loli.
   2. Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
   3. Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
   
   
4. 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:
   
   
   1. 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.
   2. 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.
   3. 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.
   
   
5. Crossposting from other services is currently permitted, with certain conditions:
   
   
   1. If crossposting from Twitter, those toots must be posted as Unlisted or Followers-only.
   
   
6. Accounts on lgbt.io are expected to be created with the intention of interacting with the community in some way. Accounts which demonstrate being used primarily under automation or for crossposting may be suspended.

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.

-- Code of Conduct (obtained from mastodon.social and modified by lgbt.io) last updated on 10th December 2020.

Staff

In addition to the site's owner, @self, lgbt.io's moderation staff include:

• @codeawayhaley
• @porsupah
• @eclectic
• @mordremoth
• @celesteh

-- If you are interested in becoming a moderator on lgbt.io, feel free to contact @self.

Support Us

Our server and S3 object storage currently costs us ~$85 per month. You can support us on Patreon, LiberaPay or PayPal Me.

Our Supporters (to be updated by 15 Feb 2025)

+ @codeawayhaley@lgbt.io + Iliana W. + @porsupah@lgbt.io + Dana R. + @Yuki

• @bootblackCub@lgbt.io
  
• @nelson@lgbt.io
  
• Thomas B.
  
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  @sky@lgbt.io
  
  
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  Thanks to all current and existing patrons! ❤
  
  

-- Our Supporters last updated on 9th October 2020.

Credits

This Mastodon instance uses Mutant Standard emoji, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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