A Montco, Pennsylvania based instance to share thoughts with friends and read what's going on in the world. Established October 2022 in the great exodus from birdspace.

Operating costs and donations can be found here

The Epistolary instance is owned and operated by Rob Carlson who believes in the model that the Mastodon network implements. Mastodon uses small interconnected instances to create a giant interconnected microblogging network free of interstitial advertising and top-down control.

This instance is a personal passion project to support that model. The epistolary.org domain was registered in 1999 to host a variety of open and public email lists to help people with common interests meet and discuss. While email lists have largely faded away, this site will again serve that purpose.

As of November 2022 this instance costs $12 in material costs per month to run, and the person hours to operate and upgrade are provided for free.

Because every project should have an exit plan, there is a simple plan for this server. This server will continue to run unless and until:

• The material costs of the site exceed $50/mo not covered by donations.
• The moderation or administrative requirements become an excessive time drain.
• Members of this instance complain or demand more than they say thank you.

In the event that this instance is deactivated, all members will be notified so that they can effectively migrate to a new instance and given a reasonable time frame to do so.

This instance will be capped at 100 members.

Support this instance at paypal.me/robvees. Supporting the instance through a donation doesn't guarantee service levels but may me noted in your profile if you choose.

Please send all questions to rob@vees.net or @vees@epistolary.org.

1. Be excellent to each other.
2. Don't make Rob add new rules.

1. bae.st: sospesa (motivo: Racist imagery)
2. beefyboys.win: sospesa (motivo: Offensive imagery)
3. brea******.*lub: sospesa (motivo: Offensive imagery)
4. detroitriotcity.com: sospesa (motivo: Racist imagery)
5. lolison.top: sospesa
6. noauthority.social: sospesa (motivo: Drive-by abusive replies)
7. parcero.bond: sospesa (motivo: Gross)
8. pawoo.net: sospesa
9. pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz: sospesa (motivo: Racist imagery)
10. ryona.agency: sospesa (motivo: Gross)
11. varis*******.net: sospesa (motivo: Offensive imagery)
12. yggdr****.**cial: sospesa (motivo: Offensive imagery)

1. c.im: limitazione
2. meow.lgbt: limitazione
3. meow.social: limitazione
4. photog.social: limitazione
5. pokemon.mastportal.info: sospensione
6. soc.jrconlin.com: limitazione
7. social.afront.org: sospensione
8. urbanists.social: limitazione