Hello!
This is a general purpose Mastodon instance hosted by @wintburr that runs on the Chuckya fork. We, the Admins and Moderators, will try to run things as openly and transparently as possible, and users are more than encouraged to suggest changes and bring up issues with the service.
Our instance button image (y'know the silly 88x31 or whatever) :

(Personal sysadmin Wintburr note:) Also, Sneexy's
synth dot download instance button, as its instance is really cool.

Our "branding" (the assets used in the button, our instance's banner, and our favicon) were made by
@meatsmall@oomfie.city!
While it's
not guaranteed, the Admin will try to maintain stability and minimize downtime. The historical downtime can be seen on the
instance's fediverse.observer page.
Please note that
we do not take responsibility for any content originating from other instances which gets hosted on Oomfie City, as monitoring every federated post would be impossible, but
we will take action if anything that goes against our rules gets reported to us. However, if you believe something outside of Oomfie City should be deleted, it needs to be brought up with the moderators of the instance hosting it, who will take action in accordance with their rules and policies.
Finally, we will try and block scraping of this instance whenever possible, in particular scraping made by corporations who train their Machine Learning/"Artificial Intelligence" models on data from the Internet. Being used as training data should be opt-in, not opt-out. This means we do not allow scraping of this instance, and any entity which would do so would be illegally copying and reproducing content from this instance.
ModerationThis instance is moderated and managed by
Contacting the moderators is preferably done via the shared
@FeatheredServices account. The account is also used for announcements and information about both oomfie.city (and it's
sister instance), as well as the other services hosted by Wintburr under
the Feathered and Oomfie.City domain names.
Please also note that reports and actions taken are handled at the discretion of the moderators, and thus might not always fully reflect what the instance allows, or any actions that get taken in the future. To clarify, this does not mean that anyone can get away with breaking the rules or get banned for no reason, of course. Action taken is decided with the context of the offending content in mind, and as such For example, saying slurs is not allowed, but a user
is allowed to say slurs they can reclaim if used in a non-derogatory. At the same time, action can be taken if said user fails to accommodate to the wishes of other users (as in, for example, adding content warnings on posts featuring them, or not using them around someone, if requested.)
AttributionCustom Emojis (list is incomplete, but contains most things, sorry):
- Capyblob emoji set made by local user AnubiArts, under the license CC BY-SA 4.0. Feel free to give her a tip in her Ko-Fi! 🤎
- blobcat emojis made by various, licensed under an Apache 2.0 License
- :blobcat_facepalm_googly: made by @Cedric@blobfox.coffee
- gphn, vlpn, Blobfox, Neocat, Neofox, floof, wvrn, drgn, wlf, and areon V2 emojis made by @volpeon@is-a.wyvern.rip.
- neoseal emoji pack made by @blakeana@zeehond.city, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA (version not specified). The pack is available on his website, zeehond.city
- neomouse(*) emoji pack made by someone not on Fedi anymore. Permission has been given to use these (as he asked to have them imported here), but no public download link or license has been given, sorry.
- :blobfox_facepalm_googly: (also) made by @Cedric@blobfox.coffee (unarchived, now lost, sorry!).
- :blobfox_head_tilt: made by @aris@pleroma.envs.net
- :macron_explosion: emoji stolen from syndicat.solidaires.org
- Mutant Standard emojis by Caius Nocturne, licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License.
- "nest" emojis modified from Microsoft Fluent UI by Jason Custer and Spencer Nelson, licensed under an MIT License
- :neoharkinian: emoji is a rendition of the Zelda CD-i version of King Harkinian made by local user @meatsmall (original version available at this link)
- :baba_yaoi: and :baba_yuri: made by @KataKabun@void.lgbt (original here: https://void.lgbt/objects/3f9348b1-80f5-4e7b-8cad-3e9e62bfcff2)
The current custom theme used is
Modern Theme made by
@Freeplay@wetdry.world, which is the default theme used.
Custom CSS:
Additional informationOomfie City has a
discord server! It's meant to be a secondary platform for users as well as visitors to connect with each other in a more... "not federated" way, so to speak. Everyone is welcome to come chill and hang out!
While it is highly unlikely, if the instance was to be shut down, the
@FeatheredServices account would be used to communicate it
at least two months in advance, and Mastodon's Announcements tool would be used as well, to ensure that no user is unaware of the shutdown.
Finally, users are able to tip the instance's owner through
their Stripe page, or through
their Ko-fi page, although it is not needed since hosting is cheap. The tips will let the sysadmin afford some donuts as treats though. Thank you :)