Languages English (en)
Users 25
Active users (last month) 24
Active users (last six months) 24
Characters per post (max) 1,500
Known instances 11,017
First sight Aug 2, 2025 UTC
Last successful check Sep 30, 2025 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.4.5+glitch
Registrations Open
Meta’s Threads moderation Threads is suspended, according to this instance’s list of moderated instances.
Short description
Community-funded server run transparently in the EU. For people who want more control over their digital lives.
Long description
goingdark.Social
Hosted on Hetzner Cloud in the EU. Runs glitch-soc with 1500 character posts and full-text search.
Custom tools: We built hypebot to aggregate trending posts from infosec.exchange, fosstodon.org, mas.to and other instances, then boost relevant content here based on hashtag scoring.
Infrastructure: Kubernetes with automated database backups to S3. All configuration is public at https://github.com/goingdark-social
Moderation
Single administrator. Reports typically handled within 48 hours.
Federation: Blocklist reviewed monthly with changes documented in our GitHub repo.
Funding
Donations: Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/goingdark
Costs: ~€80/month for Hetzner hosting, S3 storage, and domain renewal.
No ads, tracking, or data sales.
Additional Services
CryptPad: https://cryptpad.goingdark.social - collaborative document editing
Community Wiki: https://wiki.goingdark.social
Status Page: https://status.goingdark.social
Contact
contact@goingdark.social
Instance rules
- Treat people well
- Use content warnings when needed
- Keep it clean
- No illegal content
- No spam
- No hate or threats
- Don’t look for loopholes
- Breaking rules has consequences
- Be honest about identity
- Respect the server and its users
- No doxing
- Stop means stop
- No unapproved bots
- No calls for violence
Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
None

Admin account Opted out of search engines indexing
Date of creation Not available
Display name Not available
Statistics
Last 12 weeks activity (totals: 907 statuses, 52 logins, 11 registrations)
S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 | S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 | S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 | S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 | S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 | S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 | S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 | S: 113 L: 11 R: 5 | S: 247 L: 14 R: 3 | S: 513 L: 15 R: 1 | S: 34 L: 12 R: 2 | S: 0 L: 0 R: 0 |
Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
9/23/25, 2:09:17 AM UTC | 9/24/25, 2:47:45 AM UTC | 9/25/25, 3:10:48 AM UTC | 9/26/25, 1:29:17 AM UTC | 9/27/25, 1:04:10 AM UTC | 9/28/25, 1:38:21 AM UTC | 9/29/25, 1:41:28 AM UTC | 9/30/25, 1:48:10 AM UTC |
Succesful checks: 58/60 (96.67%)