Hello Friend 👋

Warmest welcome to all new users! It is all about people - Follow people, make new friends, connect with old ones. toot.io is a fast and reliable Mastodon instance running since 2018. You can sign-up and use it for free!

Funding 💸

Mastodon hosted by toot.io offers hosting services to cover the costs of this instance. Yes, you can have your own Mastodon instance. We give a portion of the net revenue to the Mastodon developers on an ongoing basis.

We don't sell your data to advertisers or other third parties. There are no ads. If you enjoy toot.io and find it useful, you can donate here: Patreon. Many thanks!

Moderation 🎤

To reach mods please use the Mastodon reporting feature.

Spam Prevention ✅

Preferably use the Mastodon verification feature. https://joinmastodon.org/verification

Code of Conduct ℹ️

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of toot.io; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:

1. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
   1. Excessive advertising
   2. Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
   3. Nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
   4. Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
2. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
   1. Racism or advocation of racism
   2. Sexism or advocation of sexism
   3. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   4. Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
3. The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
   1. Sexual depictions of children
   2. Content illegal in Germany and/or Japan
   3. Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
4. Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
   1. Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
   2. Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
   3. Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.

These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.

When you'll sign up, you'll be following a few accounts by default. But you are free to follow and unfollow anyone!

THIS INSTANCE'S DATA WILL NOT BE SOLD OR TRADED OR WHATEVER.

1. First think then post - preferred in English.
2. Be respectful of others.
3. Disagreement and debate are great, but personal attacks will not be tolerated.
4. We have a zero tolerance for any kind of hateful messaging.
5. No bots. No ads.
6. No porn or nudity.
7. No discrimination -- including racism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia.
8. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
9. No spam or posting of malicious links.
10. Preferably use the Mastodon verification feature. A company profile using a Gmail address is SEO spam!