Queer, tech and furry instance. Open to anyone that fits the atmosphere, come on in!

Welcome to woof.tech!

Running on woof'ing technology

Short introduction

This instance has been made to increase the options between queer and furry servers! We're aiming to be a nice and friendly instance 🐕!

Everyone who feels like they fit our environment is welcome, although this is an instance for queer, furry or tech people, anyone is welcome as long as they're respectful.

For questions please let me know over at @Purple, or use the email address located on this about page.

Staff

This instance is currently managed by the following team members:

Admin: 🐶 @Purple
Co-Admin: 🐺 @unlobito

Configuration

Character limit: 1500 Characters
Advanced Search: Supported (+ Extended search patch)
Post translation: Supported

Management and Rules

Our server rules are made to provide a guideline on how to behave on our instance, please check them when unsure about something. The rules may change from time to time, if noteworthy changes are in effect this will be communicated through announcements.

As this server is predominantly queer, we have a zero-tolerance policy for hate (especially homophobia and transphobia). If you feel like this may clash with your personal beliefs we'd prefer you finding a different instance.

Questions about our rules are always appreciated, don't hesitate to contact an Admin if anything is unclear.

Instance maintainability

I (@Purple) consider it important for an instance to be flexible and maintainable. Users of our instance rely on it being available and staying available in the foreseeable future and any doubt of this may hurt trust in this instance.

Because of this when setting up this instance I've made sure it's scalable, with minimal effort we can easily scale up to support thousands of users without major upgrades to how the infrastructure is set up.

Our current setup looks like this:

Server hosting:

We're currently hosting our instance on Hetzner's Cloud service. This allows us to easily scale up the amount of CPU cores or memory with downtime of less than a few minutes.

Our servers are located in Finland, Europe and currently exist out of 3 VMs for future-proofing and scalability. They have a combined 8 CPU Cores and 14GB of ram.

We can reasonably scale the main server up to 16 cores + 64GB ram before we should look into other options, it's unlikely we'd need to make major changes to our architecture until we hit a few thousand active users or more.

I'm a Linux System Administrator by trade with experience with scaling and optimisation, so this instance strongly benefits from my personal experience in this field :)

Storage hosting:

For our storage of our cache content, we use our own S3 solution hosted in The Netherlands. For user content, content we use Scaleway's S3. Using Scaleway allows us to pay only for the storage we use, with the added benefit of not having to worry about running out of space.

Using S3 means we can more easily move our server around if this happens to be needed, making a migration quick and painless. It also offloads the responsibility of serving image and video content away from our main server.

Our storage location for image and video content is The Netherlands both for user and cache content, our storage location for backups is France as Scaleway offers additional data redundancy there.

CDN hosting:

Making sure our instance stays fast and responsive, we make use of Bunny.net's CDN service to serve our static image and video content. Especially users outside of Europe will benefit from this as it will provide significantly lower latency for popular cached content.

Data retention

Because of how federation works, your posts (even through deleted) may hang around on other servers. Although mastodon will inform those instances the post has been removed, we can't guarantee other instances successfully receive or honour this request. This rarely seems to be an issue, but it is something to keep in mind when posting anything to the internet.

When you remove a post the following happens on our side:

Text content

The post itself is removed from our database right away and is inaccessible for anyone including administrators. The only place it may stay around is our backups, which are permanently removed after 60 days. These backups are never accessed unless in a recovery scenario.

Timeline:
- Inaccessible (Through timeline): Right away
- Inaccessible (Through direct URL): Right away
- Permanently unrecoverable: 60 days

Image/Video content

Although the content is removed from our storage provider right away, it may stay available through our CDN for a prolonged amount of time for users who have the exact URL to the images. We're working on a solution to immediately remove the content from our CDN, but this currently is not possible.

The CDN will lose the content after it has not been accessed for a bit. However because the CDN caching servers will only remove content if it deems caching other files more important (more frequently accessed etc.), it is hard to tell the exact timeframe.

We will purge the cache a few times a year to allow all files to be refreshed, regardless of file popularity. However unless someone has been constantly refreshing the URL every couple of hours to keep it considered "HOT" on the CDN the file will be gone in a day.

Timeline:
- Inaccessible (Through timeline): Right away
- Inaccessible (Through direct URL): Usually: 4-48 hours, but up to 120 days - Permanently unrecoverable: Usually: 4-48 hours, but up to 120 days

Relays

We're currently connected to the following relays to improve and expand our federation with the rest of the network:

• relay.asonix.dog
• relay.gay
• relay.tiggi.es

Donations

Although we appreciate the generosity, we're currently not accepting donations. The operating costs are low enough to not warrant them for now. If this situation ever changes, an option for donating might become available in the future.

For any questions regarding this subject please contact @Purple

1. Don't break the law, respect international laws and the Dutch and Finnish law (where this instance is located).
2. Be respectful. Don't insult, don't harass. Behave.
3. Don't be transphobic, homophobic or just a dick to someone because of their identity or who they are. We will act strongly on violations.
4. Content Warnings are required for NSFW content, kink and fetish content, and otherwise questionable topics (drugs etc.). Locked accounts are excluded from this rule as long as they specify this in their bio.
5. Do not impersonate someone else. If this is for parody purposes this MUST be clearly stated in your profile description.
6. Do not use an avatar that would warrant a content warning, do not use NSFW or otherwise "more than mildly questionable" banners.
7. When posting art, make sure to tag the original artist. Please do not post art you don't own / doesn't contain your characters or work.
8. NSFW art and pictures of underage characters or real animals are not allowed!

1. 1611.social: suspended (reason: hateful content, very unpleasant, antisemitism)
2. aethy.com: limited (reason: No CW's required for mild-NSFW content / nudity. Questionable content at times.)
3. ak.kyaruc.moe: suspended (reason: Bad faith actor / alt-right)
4. anemoneya.me: suspended (reason: Proxy used by trolls)
5. annihilation.social: limited (reason: Political bait and hashtag spam)
6. bae.st: suspended (reason: Unpleasantness, highly questionable content, alt-right)
7. baraag.net: limited (reason: Doesn't require CW's for NSFW content, questionable content)
8. beefyboys.win: suspended (reason: association with known bad actors, general unpleasantness)
9. brighteon.social: suspended (reason: far-right)
10. bur****.*oe: suspended (reason: pedophilia and other unpleasantness)
11. cherryberry.pink: suspended (reason: Unmanaged instance used to spam)
12. chudbuds.lol: suspended (reason: General unpleasantness, transphobia)
13. clubcyberia.co: suspended (reason: Hate, *phobia and general bad stuff)
14. cum.salon: suspended (reason: Hateful instance, very incompatible moderation policies)
15. decayable.ink: suspended (reason: Transphobia, hate instance)
16. detroitriotcity.com: suspended (reason: Strong Anti-LGBT, "free-speech" hellhole)
17. develop.gab.com: suspended (reason: far-right)
18. electroverse.tech: suspended (reason: Unmanaged, insecure instance, previously used to spam)
19. fer**.**fe: limited (reason: Zoophile "positive" instance)
20. freeatlantis.com: suspended (reason: "Free-speech", occupied by conspiracy posting and far-right)
21. freespeechextremist.com: suspended (reason: Alt-right)
22. fsebugoutzone.org: suspended (reason: Unpleasant, alt-right affiliated)
23. fusionpros.social: suspended (reason: Unmanaged instance used to spam)
24. gab.ai: suspended (reason: far-right)
25. gab.com: suspended (reason: far-right)
26. gainer.cloud: limited (reason: NSFW instance that doesn't properly CW)
27. gervtuber.de: suspended (reason: Insecure server, previously used to send spam)
28. glee.li: suspended (reason: Transphobia, hate instance, general awfulness)
29. homunyan.com: suspended (reason: Proxy used by trolls)
30. hornyjail.pro: limited (reason: Questionable content, reposting art without crediting artist)
31. iddqd.social: suspended (reason: General unpleasantness, alt-right)
32. kernkraft.social: suspended (reason: Unmanaged instance used to spam)
33. kiwifarms.cc: suspended (reason: Hate site / far-right)
34. kys.moe: suspended (reason: Abusive)
35. leafposter.club: suspended (reason: Hateful, anti-LGBT and other unpleasantness)
36. liberdon.com: suspended (reason: Unpleasantness, "libertarian" hell-hole)
37. lol****.*op: suspended (reason: pedophilia and other unpleasantness)
38. loli.church: suspended (reason: racism / lolicon)
39. mastodon.snmsoc.org: suspended (reason: Unmanaged, insecure instance, previously used to spam)
40. miss.mouse.services: suspended (reason: Hateful content)
41. mugicha.club: suspended (reason: Racist, anti-LGBT, very unpleasant)
42. myc**.***ce: suspended (reason: Underage characters in nsfw situations)
43. nemoneya.me: suspended (reason: Proxy used by trolls)
44. nicecrew.digital: suspended (reason: Nazi's / Alt-right)
45. niederbayern.social: suspended (reason: Unmanaged instance suffering from spam)
46. noagendasocial.com: suspended (reason: hate site / far-right)
47. noauthority.social: suspended (reason: Far-right "free speech" hellhole, transphobia, homophobia.)
48. norwoodzero.net: suspended (reason: Unpleasant, alt-right affiliated, spam)
49. paw**.*et: suspended (reason: NSFW Cub art and drawn CP)
50. pl.kitsunemimi.club: suspended (reason: Hateful content)
51. poa.st: suspended (reason: Alt-right, nazi stuff)
52. poster.place: suspended (reason: Harassment by admin, hateful instance.)
53. posting.lolicon.rocks: suspended (reason: lolicon)
54. rebased.taihou.website: suspended (reason: Unpleasant, alt-right affiliated, spam)
55. refusal.biz: suspended (reason: Ok with nazi stuff, pedo stuff etc.)
56. rubber.social: limited (reason: Doesn't require CWs for a lot of NSFW content, especially kink/fetish)
57. ryona.agency: suspended (reason: anti-lgbt and other unpleasantness, hateful content)
58. s-h.social: suspended (reason: Unmanaged instance being used to spam)
59. shitpost.cloud: suspended (reason: Transphobia, alt-right)
60. shitposter.club: suspended (reason: Hateful content, alt-right)
61. sho**.***se: suspended (reason: pedophilia, general awfulness)
62. shrimpcam.pw: suspended (reason: Proxy used by trolls)
63. sneed.social: suspended (reason: Hateful content, transphobia)
64. social.dev-wiki.de: limited (reason: Badly moderated "free for all" instance)
65. social.lovingexpressions.net: suspended (reason: Nazi stuff, alt-right)
66. spinster.xyz: suspended (reason: Transphobic / TERF instance)
67. subs4social.xyz: suspended (reason: Transphobia, queerphobia, just unpleasantness all around)
68. thechimp.zone: suspended (reason: alt-right affiliated, unpleasant instance)
69. toot.poedelwitz.de: suspended (reason: Unmanaged, insecure instance, previously used to send spam)
70. varis*******.net: suspended (reason: Questionable content, incompatible policies)
71. wank.social: suspended (reason: Hashtag spam & porn repost w/ no credits)
72. xscape.top: limited (reason: Porn bot possibly posting revenge-porn)

1. channel.org: suspension
2. fediforum.channel.org: suspension
3. kamalaharriswin.channel.org: suspension
4. monsterfuckers.online: suspension
5. newsmast.channel.org: suspension
6. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension
7. science.channel.org: suspension
8. technology.channel.org: suspension
9. wedistribute.channel.org: suspension