Furry focused instance for critters that like to bark!
LGBTQ+ run and friendly, active moderation

LGBTQ+ friendly furry instance

🦊🐺🐶🐯🐱🦝🐉

Show off your canine pride at bark.lgbt. A alternative to meowing at meow.social

Credit for custom emoji's:

• https://volpeon.ink/
• https://github.com/chr-1x/dragn-emoji

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Report the post in question or send a email to admin@bark.lgbt. We take these claims very seriously and will come back to you within a day

bark.lgbt team

Announcements: @bark

Admins:

• @dalite
• @cisco

Moderators:

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  @wesleyote
  
  
• 
  
  You? - reach out to admin today if you would like to help us moderate this instance.
  
  

📜 Rules

We want everyone on this instance to feel comfortable expressing themselves. That being said there are limits. We have zero tolerance for any blatant homophobia / transphobia / trolling / hating and in general just people that are here to ruin the mood. We are lgbt+ run and supportive.

Registering an account on this instance means you are at least 18 years old. Additionally you agree that browsing the timelines from this instance might expose you to not-safe-for-work and other unwanted material. This is due to the nature of the fediverse. You agree to report these posts so our moderator team can take actions against the violating instance or user.

If you are uncomfortable with certain types of content we highly recommend making use of filters https://bark.lgbt/filters to filter out commonly used hashtags that you would like to avoid.

If your account is identified as being younger than 18 years old and you are seen posting NSFW content your account will be suspended. This falls under illegal content.

We accept the posting of NSFW content however to protect other instances feeds we require not safe for work (NFSW) content to be tagged appropriately. Use both a content warning (CW) and blur media if any media is attached. If this is violated your post may be removed and repeated violation of this rule will result in a ban.

Profile pictures and profile headers MUST be PG-13 and cannot be NSFW / explicit. If your profile is found to violate this rule our moderators will remove your profile picture and/or header. You are then free to upload a alternative that does adhere to this rule.

Zoophillia is not accepted on this instance, nor any mention of it.

This is not a exhaustive list of rules and by registering to this instance you agree that we can add, remove or modify rules without prior notice. If you are in breach of one of our rules our moderator team will contact you and attempt to resolve the situation. If you are uncooperative we may choose to suspend your account on this instance.

🐺 Acceptable content

While we are (canine) furry focused everyone is welcome to join in the howl! No matter your species. Non-furry content is allowed as well, do keep in mind to CW your posts if they include anything you don't want to see in public, Especially NSFW!

See something? Say something! Use the report feature to report posts and our team will review them on a case-by-case basis. All reports will be handled fairly for all parties involved.

💬 Languages

While we are a primary English speaking instance we do offer translations using our libretranslate server. This is integrated in Mastodon.

When you create a post you can specify which language you are typing your post in. Choosing one of the above languages will offer users of this instance a 'translate' button to automatically translate your posts content into English

📢 Fediblock policy

Our team regularly monitors the #fediblock hashtag and acts accordingly. Additionally if we identify a malicious instance our team will announce this to #fediblock.

We obscure the names of all instances that are suspended/silenced. If you suspect we have blocked your instance and you want to appeal then please contact our team via email [admin@bark.lgbt]

🖋️ GDPR Policy

If you own a account on our instance you have the ability to export all the data this instance has of you, as well as request complete account deletion.

• Export your data
• Delete your data

💰 Donations

Are you feeling generous? Did we do an amazing job with something? Or are you just enjoying the service we're offing?

We are private individuals operating this instance not-for-profit. We will never sell your data and never show advertisements on our instance.

Donations are always most welcome as these will assist us with paying monthly infrastructure fees. Donations are not mandatory but are greatly appreciated. Donations will be shared on @bark as well. We want to let everyone know the money we receive is being put into the instance, be it infrastructure improvements or compensation to our moderators (instance owner excluded)

• ko-fi

🔍 Information we store about you

When you choose to register an account on this instance we keep minimal information needed to make the site function for you on our systems. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Your IP
• Your email
• Language
• Most recent activity
• Statistics about your account, namely:
  
  
  • Amount of posts
  • Media storage usage
  • Reports made and reported by others
  • Follower information
  
  

This information is collected to assist our moderators and create aggregate instance usage data.

System logs are only stored for up to an hour for troubleshooting purposes.

🤓 Technical specs:

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1. No discrimination, bigotry, transphobia, homophobia, etc of any kind is accepted
2. No discussion of illegal topics or sharing of pirated data.
3. Any content that would be considered Illegal in the European economic area is strictly banned
4. No uncensored NSFW content. Use a CW
5. You are at least 18 years of age during sign-up
6. No zoophillia / Loli
7. No NSFW profile pictures, headers and usernames
8. No posting of AI art

1. aethy.com: suspended (reason: allows questionable and illigal content)
2. awakari.app: suspended (reason: Crawler)
3. bae.st: suspended (reason: Racism, general haressment)
4. baraag.net: suspended (reason: content depicting minors)
5. beefyboys.win: suspended (reason: Tolerates racism and the like)
6. bird.makeup: suspended (reason: Cloning accounts from twitter and inserting creators donation link on every profile)
7. childlove.space: suspended (reason: MAP instance)
8. childlove.su: suspended (reason: Pedo's)
9. detroitriotcity.com: suspended (reason: spreading hate)
10. eveningzoo.club: suspended (reason: bad actors)
11. feral.cafe: suspended (reason: Zoophillia)
12. fluf.club: suspended (reason: no rules against racism/sexism/queermisia/…)
13. freak.university: suspended (reason: hosts zoophiles)
14. furcel.club: suspended (reason: hosting incel propaganda and alt-right, bigoted and hateful content)
15. gameliberty.club: suspended (reason: tolerates racism, posting explicit content of underage character, hosting zoo and pedo supporters)
16. genderheretics.xyz: suspended (reason: Transphobia)
17. ghetti.monster: suspended (reason: "free speech" allowing loli, zoo, etc.)
18. h5q.net: suspended (reason: Pedo/shota instance)
19. lab.nyanide.com: suspended (reason: Hostile instance, harassment)
20. lewdieheaven.com: suspended (reason: host/allows pedo content)
21. lolison.top: suspended (reason: no rules, hosts MAP's)
22. mastinator.com: suspended (reason: scraper, ban circumvention)
23. mastodon.top: limited (reason: porn spam)
24. misskey.io: limited (reason: queerphobic)
25. nicecrew.digital: suspended (reason: bigoted and hateful content)
26. nnia.space: suspended (reason: hosting accounts of pedophiles)
27. noauthority.social: suspended (reason: No rules)
28. obo.sh: suspended (reason: "no censorship" content with minors)
29. pawoo.net: limited (reason: corporate owned, low quality content and poor moderation)
30. pettanko.art: suspended (reason: Hosting illegal content)
31. poa.st: suspended (reason: harassment)
32. poster.place: suspended (reason: transphobic moderator, harassment)
33. rapem***.*****ions: suspended (reason: Hosts zoophiles, maps and graphic content)
34. seal.cafe: suspended (reason: hosting alt-right, bigoted and hateful content)
35. shortstacksran.ch: suspended (reason: bad actors)
36. shota.house: suspended (reason: instance allows posting of explicit 2d art of minors)
37. skinheads.eu: suspended (reason: Nazi/extremism instance)
38. skinheads.io: suspended (reason: Nazi/extremism instance)
39. skinheads.social: suspended (reason: Nazi/extremism instance)
40. skinheads.uk: suspended (reason: Nazi/extremism instance)
41. spinster.xyz: suspended (reason: hosting transphobic content and TERF propaganda)
42. staging.kazar.ma: suspended (reason: Likely malicious)
43. threads.net: suspended (reason: It's facebook, need any more reasons?)
44. tummy.town: suspended (reason: Map, zoo, etc instance)
45. umbrellix.org: suspended (reason: Harassment / abusive behavior)
46. varishangout.net: suspended (reason: Uncensored explicit content)
47. wank.social: limited (reason: No cw's)
48. youjo.love: suspended (reason: explicit content of minors)

1. channel.org: suspension
2. fediforum.channel.org: suspension
3. kamalaharriswin.channel.org: suspension
4. mytter.jp: 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