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Languages English (OU) (en_OU)
Users 1,119
Active users (last month) 75
Active users (last six months) 104
Characters per post (max) 500
Known instances 26,776
First sight Before Oct 14, 2020 UTC [?]
Last successful check Sep 18, 2024 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.0.11
Registrations Open
Meta’s Threads moderation Unknown (this instance is not listed in the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact list), and its list of moderated instances is not accessible.
Most used hashtags (last week) Not available
Short description
A spot for chatting with a lipogrammatic constraint. 25 out of 26 symbols in latin script comply.
Long description
FAQ

  1. I saw a stray fifth symbol! Can you fix it?
    Look at our list of bugs on GitHub. If it's known, @rjl20 is probably working on it. If it's not known, add a bug or a PR on GitHub. Tooting at @rjl20 might or might not bring it into his vision as quickly as a GitHub addition.
  2. Can I post links that contain taboo symbols?
    Go for it. Validation skips links and it's not a faux pas at all.
  3. What if I post symbols that look similar to that taboo glyph?
    Don't. Mods will discard toots that do this, and if you don't stop, banning may follow.
  4. No problm I'll writ lik this.
    No. Stop. Don't do this.
  5. But this is hard?
    Practicing will bring you far.
  6. What synonym should I sub in for [x]?
    Try to stop looking for synonyms; if you try to swap out individual words, you'll find it tough going. Pull back and think abstractly about what you want to say and find words for that.

Social Contract

This social contract is an adaptation from Mastodon.social.

What follows is not a law contract, and final ruling is up to administrators of oulipo.social; it should function to clarify our community policy and standards:

  1. Posts similar to any of this will not stay up on our activity list:

    1. Abundant ads
    2. Bots that post spam
    3. Pornography without a "CW" or "Tricky Topic" tag
    4. Horrific or traumatic posts without a "CW" or "Tricky Topic" tag
    5. That fifth symbol, or any variant of it, that is found in Latin script, including using "3" or homographic symbols in its spot. (Pics containing such may or may not stay, at mod whim.)
    6. Satirical brand accounts. (I'm looking at you, "Carl's Jr.")

  2. Posts similar to any of this will not stay up on our activity list, and is possibly grounds for banning:

    1. Racism or advocation of racism
    2. Misogyny or advocation of misogyny
    3. Discrimination against LGBT minority groups or individuals, or advocation of that
    4. Jingoism or militant nationalism
    5. Satirical/"ironic" posting of things on this list
    6. Non-satirical brand accounts.

  3. Posts similar to any of this will not stay up and is without doubt grounds for banning:

    1. Child pornography
    2. Nazism of any kind or any promoting of National Socialism

  4. Any conduct which could stalk or harass participants or individuals, or stop individuals from participating in this community, or to impact usability and functionality of this community, or to harass anybody, or advocations that accounts do such actions, is not okay, and is grounds for banning any violators. This is activity such as:

    1. Continuing to talk to an individual that has said to stop, a platform's privacy tools notwithstanding.
    2. Posting, and/or sharing an individual's data or information without that individual's approval (informally known as doxing or dropping dox).
    3. Inciting accounts to post to an individual in additional discussion if that individual has said it should stop (informally known brigading or dogpiling).


All this notwithstanding, administrators of oulipo.social can ban any accounts, at any point, for any motivation, if not in violation of law.
Instance rules
  1. Look at and comply with our Social Contract.
Moderated instances [?]
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Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
  1. aethy.com: limitation
  2. mytter.jp: suspension
Admin account rjl20@oulipo.social
Date of creation Mar 23, 2018 UTC
Display name RJL20 :whit_whal:
Bio
Administrator of that mastodon community known as oulipo.social. Hobby fun: folk-violin playing, kraut making/pickling, napping. Living in Washington (not DC). Works upstairs from an actual mastodon.
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