Aboutnfld.me is
Newfoundland and Labrador's Mastodon server. Come join and connect with other Newfoundlanders and Labradorians today!
An account on nfld.me will also allow you to follow and connect with users across the entire
Fediverse, a global network of users connected via services that use standardized protocols such as
ActivityPub.
[ News & Changes:
blog.nfld.me ]
[ Service Status:
status.nfld.me ]
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ko-fi.com/nfldHelpA quick primer on
timelines:
🏠Home: Posts from accounts you follow, and the posts they 🔁Boost¹. Also includes posts that include the #hashtags you follow.
👥Local: Posts from users on nfld.me that were posted with visibility set to Public.
🌎Federated: Public posts from users across many ActivityPub² servers, all around the world.
#️⃣Explore: Posts, links, and #hashtags that are popular right now.
A quick primer on
post actions:
🔁Boost: Puts a post on the Home timeline of your followers, as well as their Federated timelines. ("I want everyone to see this post.")
⭐Favourite: Tells the person who posted that you liked it. ("I want them to see I liked it.") You can view a list of your Favourites here.
🔖Bookmark: "I want to save this for me, later." You can view a list of your Bookmarks here.
¹ Like
Retweet on the bird site.
² There are other social network softwares that communicate using the ActivityPub protocol. Some common ones, in addition to Mastodon, include Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, PixelFed, and PeerTube.
Mastodon Server Covenantnfld.me abides by the
Mastodon Server Covenant, which reads as follows:
Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia
Users must have the confidence that they are joining a safe space, free from white supremacy, anti-semitism and transphobia of other platforms.
nfld.me employs active moderation against such content.
Daily backups
It is important for users to have the confidence that a trip over the power cable or a rogue bit flip will not erase all of their data. Having a backup strategy is a basic necessity of providing a public service.
nfld.me's database is backed up off-site nightly, and media uploads are backed up off-site weekly.
At least one other person with emergency access to the server infrastructure
Various circumstances can prevent the original owner of the Mastodon server from answering technical emergencies. For this reason, more than one person must have that capability.
nfld.me's primary admin is @wilson, the emergency admin is @Gudahtt.
Commitment to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down
Sometimes services shut down, it is the cycle of life. But users must have the confidence that their account will not disappear overnight, so that they have time to export their data and find another server.
nfld.me will give 3 months advance notice in case of shutting down.
Moderation Policy
The moderators reserve the right to suspend accounts of known offenders.
Major rule violations (such as severe or illegal activity like death threats, hate speech, CSAM) result in an immediate account suspension and content deletion.
Minor rule violations (such as spam, pornography, depictions of violence/nudity without content warning) may result in content removal in addition to following the official moderation escalation procedure as follows:
Offense 1: Limit (3d)Your posts reach only your followers for 3 days.
Offense 2: Freeze (7d)Unable to use account for 7 days.
Offense 3: Suspend (Ban)Your account is indefinitely suspended. The only reversal option is to successfully appeal the suspension within 30 days using the built-in Appeal feature.
Moderated Server Reason Key1: Single-user server admin is problematic
A: Abuse or Malicious (ActivityPub protocol abuse, DDoS, scraping, etc.)
B: Bigotry (Hate Speech, Homomisia, Transmisia, Racism, Sexism, Ableism, Classism)
C: CSAM, l--icon, etc.
D: Disinformation (Fake news, intentionally misleading misinformation)
F: Fascism ("Free Speech", White Supremacy, Antisemitism)
G: Gore
H: Harassment or Doxxing of Users
I: Illegal material
L: Language filters ignored
M: Moderation (Lax/No enforcement of rules or community standards)
N: Not secure (no/bad HTTPS certificate)
O: Offline (Unresponsive)
P: Pornography (Explicit sexual material without content warnings)
R: Rules (Few/No rules or community standards)
S: Spam/Scam/Cryptocurrency
T: Twitter mirror
U: Underage Users
W: Wants server blocked