masto.social is a general purpose English speaking Mastodon instance.

masto.social

No Aggression. No Hate. Be Respectful, Constructive, and Kind. There are no ads and no targeting. masto.social is a self-hosted labor of love. Instance administrator is @uther.

Code of Conduct

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

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   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
   
   
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   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. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   4. Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
   
   
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   The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
   
   
   1. Sexual depictions of children
   2. Content illegal in the United States of America
   3. Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
   4. Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
   
   
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   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.
   
   

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.

When you sign up for service on this instance, you'll be following a few accounts by default. You are free to follow and unfollow any account.

Copyright

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   1. All content is copyright protected ⓒ by the artist & cannot be distributed or used without express prior permission by the respective artist.
   2. masto.social respects your privacy and does not monetize or profit off of your personal information or works or art — your information is never for sale.
   
   

Federation Policy and Terms of Use

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   1. Federation serves as a browsing & temporary cached link to cited work here on masto.social
   2. Other instances may not disseminate others' work or toots without credit and proper licensing.
   3. Other instances may not use dumb code, machine learning or AI to analyze any derived text or work for publication or profit without masto.social user consent. This includes serving ads next to copyright content originally submitted on masto.social.
   4. Public toots are derived works that are copyright protected.
   5. This instance honors noindex/nofollow and search engines are not allowed to index.
   6. Your instance will be blocked/suspended/silenced for willingly allowing any of the content prohibited by this instance
   
   

Mastodon

1. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
4. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
5. No content illegal in the United States
6. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information

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