Raphus Social 🦤 is a better bird site, a safe and inclusive place for bringing together open minded people interested in technology, open source, tabletop games, and other general geekery.

About

Raphus Social 🦤 is a better bird site. It is a place for bringing together open minded people interested in technology, open source, tabletop games, and other general geekery.
Named after the extinct Dodo bird, Raphus Cucullatus. As one bird site is falling apart, we found it only fitting that this server be named in honor of another bird destroyed by human arrogance.

Moderation

This server strives to be a safe and inclusive environment, and is actively moderated in accordance with the rules of this server, (for more details, please see the Raphus Social Code of Conduct), and the Mastodon Server Covenant.

Note: BirdsiteLive instances are blocked. These so-called "ethical bridges from Twitter" end up creating "duplicate accounts" of people by pulling in their twitter content (without the author's permission or consent). They are limited by Twitter's api, get overloaded, become unreliable, and ultimately stop working. Because of these problems, they would cause an excessive drain on resources.

Defederation Policy

We actively defederate from other servers that are incompatible with our fundamental rules and may pose a risk to our users. The decision to defederate can come from reports by our users, community discussions about bad actors, and through the use of shared blocklists. User safety is always our number one concern, so we will proactively block problematic servers rather than wait for abuse to happen.
We also employ AUTHORIZED_FETCH (aka “Secure Mode”) to ensure that our users posts do not unknowingly end up on blocked servers.
We do not currently share our blocklist publicly due to the presence of offensive language and illegal content, but will be made available to current users upon request.

Threads.net

Meta’s policies on moderation, user safety, and privacy are not compatible with our own, so we have no intention to enable federation with Threads if/when it does become fully implemented.

Funding

This server is voluntarily maintained and paid for by @rrgeorge. If you’d like to contribute to the operating costs, feel free to:
Become a Patron on Patreon:


Or Buy me a Ko-fi:


Sponsors

Extra thanks to those that chose to sponsor Raphus Social:

Hardware Sponsors:

Jacob Johnston, Homepage

Legal

This server is operated by Raphus Cucullatus LLC, located in California, USA and subject to any local laws. For copyright claims, please see our DMCA Policy

Credits

Artwork made by @lollybrubs

1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, any other forms of discriminatory and bigoted conduct
2. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
3. No harassment, brigading or doxxing of other users
4. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
5. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive with a clear content warning when posting
6. No advertising, promoting, or advocating for cryptocurrencies, NFTs, or other blockchain related products.
7. No spam
8. Patreon subscription does not guarantee your account. All new accounts are subject to admin approval. Violation of the rules, will result in suspension regardless of financial support.
9. When signing up, please tell us what interests you about Raphus Social, and why you would like to join our community. Generic or vague responses will be rejected.