Spacelasers is a place to talk about music, books, tech, work, whatever. No jerks.

Spacelase.rs is a small instance for friends and kindred spirits interested in tech, music, art, books, running, dogs, cats, and the other good things in life. We believe in human rights, equality, justice, and kindness. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

For more about privacy, anonymity, and moderation, go here: https://info.spacelase.rs

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Code of Conduct

This code of conduct applies to all spacelase.rs spaces, including public channels, private channels and direct messages. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the administrators.

Types of Harassment

• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, immigration status, religion, or other identity marker. This includes anti-Indigenous/Nativeness and anti-Blackness. Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment. Deliberate misgendering or use of "dead" or rejected names. Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they're not appropriate.
• Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop.
• Threats of violence Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
• Deliberate intimidation.
• Stalking or following.
• Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
• Sustained disruption of discussion.
• Unwelcome sexual attention.
• Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.
• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
• Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
• Publication of non-harassing private communication.
• Jokes that resemble the above, such as "hipster racism", still count as harassment even if meant satirically or ironically.
• Microaggressions, which take the form of everyday jokes, put downs, and insults that spread humiliating feelings to people of marginalized groups

The administrators will not act on complaints regarding:

• "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
• Communicating in a "tone" you don't find congenial
• Criticism of racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

Reporting

If you are being harassed by a member of spacelase.rs, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the administrator directly.

The admin reserves the right to exclude people from spacelase.rs based on their past and current behavior, including behavior outside spacelase.rs spaces and behavior towards people who are not in spacelase.rs. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the administrator may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all spacelase.rs spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other spacelase.rs members or the general public.

Updates

The administrator reserves the right to update the Code of Conduct at any time at their discretion. Updates to the CoC will be communicated to users via email and posts from admin accounts. If you have any concerns about or suggestions for the CoC, please contact an administrator via DM.

License

This was adapted from the LGBTQ in Tech Code of Conduct and as such is licensed using a Creative Commons Zero License, meaning the contents are in the public domain.

Privacy Policy

The data you post here lives on a server that Josh Levy (@josh) runs. He promises that he won't look at your private data. You are just going to have to trust him on this.

This is, however, an ActivityPub federated server. This means that other people on other federated servers can find you, send you messages, etc. This also means that any information you put in posts, whether they are public or private, might end up "federated" -- basically, a copy of your post gets put on any server that reads your post.

(This privacy policy was written wholly by Darius Kazemi and provided under a Creative Commons Zero License, meaning the contents are in the public domain.)

Longevity

Adapted from Artist Alley:

Will spacelase.rs shut down?

Nothing lasts forever, and this server will shut down one day. It's the admin's goal for this to not happen for a long time. They are planning to run this server for a minimum of 5 years (through 2028). When this server shuts down, they will provide at least 3 months of notice and will keep all export tools available to help people transition to a new server.

That said, they are human and life happens to everyone. What kind of events might cause these plans to change?

• If they become physically disabled (or obviously if they die) and are unable to physically use a computer
• If they are hit by sudden and extreme personal financial hardship
• If the server becomes overrun with bots, spam, abusive content, harassment, etc
• If the server becomes extensively disconnected from the rest of the network
• If the server becomes too expensive to run
• If the server usage drops to near zero

However, the admin will do their best to ensure that these scenarios only happen as a last resort.

1. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting.
2. No spam or advertising.
3. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism.
4. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
5. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
6. No illegal content.

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2. icosahedron.website: limitation
3. jubi.life: suspension
4. monsterfuckers.online: suspension