This is a local server, for local people.

This is a server owned, funded, and administered by Douglas Spencer. It's a one-user server (plus a couple of bots and an admin account). There's no intention to open it up to other users.

If you want to discuss supporting this instance financially, that's not necessary right now -- you may wish to support those in your local community who find themselves in need instead.

This instance semi-automatically defederates instances which host accounts which exist solely to retoot tweets. These mechanisms bypass blocks and violate user consent, and this instance isn't going to have anything to do with instances where doing so is normalised or encouraged.

1. Don't be an arse. No bigotry, no punching down. Believe people when they speak for themselves.
2. Don't overload the server. This means no enormous media files, no bulk following/boosting, and if you do something else which overloads the server you can be expected to be called in for a conversation about it.
3. No scraping content without the individual user's explicit consent. This means that if you're on an instance where there are bots which scrape other sites and toot what they find, that entire instance is likely to be blocked.

1. *.awakari.app: suspended (reason: Reuse without consent)
2. *.threads.net: suspended (reason: Owned by Facebook)
3. activitypub-proxy.cf: suspended (reason: Seeks to subvert fediblocks)
4. activitypub-troll.cf: suspended (reason: DDOS)
5. bird.evilcyberhacker.net: suspended (reason: Scrapes and retoots Twitter without consent)
6. bird.makeup: suspended (reason: Scrapes and retoots Twitter without consent)
7. birdsite.wilde.cloud: suspended (reason: Scrapes and retoots Twitter without consent)
8. botsin.space: suspended (reason: Scrapes and retoots Twitter)
9. brid.gy: suspended (reason: Bridge without consent)
10. brighteon.social: suspended (reason: Right-wing bot farm)
11. durst.world: suspended (reason: Threats of sexual violence)
12. fediscanner.info: suspended (reason: Scraper)
13. jorts.horse: suspended (reason: White supremacy)
14. mastinator.com: suspended (reason: scrapes without consent)
15. scots.network: suspended (reason: anti-lgbt hate speech)
16. snarfed.org: suspended (reason: Bridge without consent)
17. spinster.xyz: suspended (reason: TERFs)
18. threads.net: suspended (reason: Owned by Facebook)
19. twitter.activitypub.actor: suspended (reason: Scrapes and retoots Twitter without consent)
20. twtr.plus: suspended (reason: Scrapes and retoots Twitter without consent)
21. zztails.gay: suspended (reason: Threats of sexual violence)