This is a regional, general topic community for anyone that is interested in the Saint Paul, Minnesota metropolitan area.

What is this?

saint-paul.us is a decentralised, free, and open alternative to Twitter based on Mastodon.

This is a "general topic" Mastodon instance. saint-paul.us is a casual place for those that live in, work in, care for, enjoy, or simply interested in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Federated Community

saint-paul.us is community driven and runs on the Mastodon open-source platform. saint-paul.us is federated and connected to millions of other people on the #Fediverse. As a community platform, we hope and strive for constructive interaction with one another and the broader fediverse.

Code of Conduct

The goal of saint-paul.us is to create a localized social media community that fosters a considerate and accessible atmosphere. As a registered user, you agree to:

• be polite
• be respectful - even if you disagree
• abide by the server rules

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1. No spamming. Excessive commercial advertising or commercial postswill be removed from the public timeline. Continued spamming may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service.
2. Bots require approval from the administrators. Unapproved bots posting from third-party sources will have their content removed from the public timeline and will result in account suspension.
3. Gore and/or extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions, must be tagged with a content warning and digital media must be marked sensitive. Failure to do so will result in the content being removed from the public timeline.
4. All explicit (NSFW) content must be marked as sensitive and have a content warning. Explicit content must not be used in user avatars or header images. Such "untagged" content will be removed from the public timeline and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service.
5. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and will result in account suspension including revocation of access to the service; Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Transphobic, Xenophobic, Sexual depictions of children.
6. Spreading disinformation or conspiracy theories that undermine public safety and/or health will result in removal of the content from the public timeline and will result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service.
7. Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions is explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service.