What is toot.sh?

Toot.sh is a mastodon instance, we welcome all content within our rules and policies but do not require a specific focus. We are generally a group of professionals in the tech industry, so if that's you and you're looking for a mastodon home, you're very welcome here.

How we moderate

Moderation is carried out inline with our server rules. If you are being harassed or otherwise see content that is breaking our rules, please report the user. Click the "..." button and then "Report". For urgent concerns please DM Elliot.

In the future if/as this instance grows we will look at a way to bring in a more transparent moderation process and team. Currently while the instance is both tiny and those here are content with it moderation is be carried out by the server administrators listed on the about page.

Privacy policy

We will not do anything with your data aside from using it to run this mastadon instance. No advertising, no algorithms, no aggregating data.

We will never share your data with anyone else, except in the case of valid legal requests if it comes to that. Simiarly, users and third parties are forbidden from scraping content from the instance's web interface or API; you are required to respect robots.txt files.

Some additional privacy measures we take on toot.sh are:

• HTTPS is used across the entire site.
• There are no adveritsments or trackers.
• We do not alter URLs to add additional tracking (although users may use tracking links from services like bit.ly of their own choice).

In addition to the above it is worth noting that this instance is run by Elliot plus additional volunteers. Anyone with access to the server for maintenance purposes could potentially have access to your data, including direct messages (DMs). There is no End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) on Mastodon. For anything you wish to be turely private, you should use a service like Signal.

1. No advertising or excessive promotion.
2. No bots, unless they're cute, funny, or useful. Bots should avoid posting to the public timeline. If you're unsure, speak to a moderator.
3. No pornography or adult content.
4. No gore or graphic violence.
5. Content that is borderline NSFW or could be construed as NSFW at a glance should be put behind a Content Warning (CW).
6. No sexism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, or other forms of hate speech.
7. No content that would otherwise be illegal in the UK or the EU.
8. No posting of other people's personally identifying information, otherwise known as "doxing".
9. No promoting of conspiracy theories (e.g. anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-COVID).
10. No other unethical content.
11. No scraping content from the web interface or API.
12. AI/ML generated content must be clearly labelled as such

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