Independent, general purpose Mastodon server maintained by Brent Schroeter. Offline but for the grace of Altice and Con Ed, so thank you for being understanding of downtime.

Independent Mastodon server maintained by Brent Schroeter. Offline but for the grace of Altice and Con Ed, so thank you for being understanding of downtime.

Work in progress / known issues:

• taciturn.social is temporarily deny-listed by Fastmail, so emails sent to accounts hosted on Fastmail will bounce until the domain name is a few days older. If you use Fastmail and are having difficulty signing up, please contact webmaster@taciturn.social to have your account verified manually.

Credit to infosec.exchange—specifically, @jerry@infosec.exchange—for points of inspiration and shameless copying.

1. Do unto others as you think they would want done to them.
2. Mark sensitive content with a content warning.
3. Gratuitously obscene that serves no practical benefit to a discussion is not permitted.
4. Illegal content is not permitted.
5. Lack of a specific rule against a certain behavior does not indicate acceptance of that behavior. Each of us has a limited amount of time in this world. Don't be a jerk!
6. Hate speech and abusive or threatening behavior is not permitted, specifically that which directed at any gender, nationality, religion, race, age, or sexual identity.
7. Violating one or more of these rules may result in an immediate and permanent ban without notice or warning.
8. Spam is not permitted, this includes creating spam accounts that only serve to provide profile links or advertise products and services.
9. You may not impersonate a person or brand without a clear indication the account is unofficial and/or a parody. Parody accounts are permitted, as are legitimate brand accounts.

1. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension