Code of Conduct

Summary

No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, casteism
No sexual depictions of minors
No spam
No bots

In-depth

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of mastodon.social; 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. Untagged 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. Casteism or advocation of casteism
   4. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   5. Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
   6. Spreading disinformation or conspiracy theories that undermine public health
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 France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
   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.

Cross-posting

"Cross-posting" is the automatic copying of posts from one platform to another. That definition does not include the simultaneous posting to multiple platforms from the same app, such as Twidere or PostyBirb. If you use those apps, we consider those posts original, and the following need not apply.

Cross-posting from Mastodon to other platforms is fully permitted. Cross-posting into Mastodon from another platform is permitted under the following terms:

1. The posts do not include platform-specific references, e.g. talking about "here" meaning Twitter, or including text from other non-Mastodon users verbatim (e.g. cross-posted quote tweets)
2. The account is at least semi-regularly monitored by the author, so that interactions from Mastodon users are not ignored
3. The account being cross-posted is owned by the same person. Third-party copying of content is not permitted

Staff

In addition to the site's owner, @Gargron, Mastodon.social's moderation staff include:

• @CM_kropot
• @citrustwee
• @JohnModerator

Funding

This server is crowdfunded by Patreon donations. For a list of sponsors, see joinmastodon.org

Imprint

Eugen Rochko
c/o Grosch Postflex #92
Emsdettener Straße 10
48268 Greven
Germany
E-mail: hello@joinmastodon.org
VAT ID: DE316095554

Moderated servers

Mastodon generally allows you to view content from and interact with users from any other server in the fediverse. These are the exceptions that have been made on this particular server.

Filtered media

Media files from these servers will not be processed or stored, and no thumbnails will be displayed, requiring manual click-through to the original file:

Server	Reason
pawoo.net	Inappropriate content
bsd.moe	Harassment
freezepeach.xyz	Harassment
toot.love	Harassment

Silenced servers

Posts from these servers will be hidden in public timelines and conversations, and no notifications will be generated from their users interactions, unless you are following them:

Server	Reason
brighteon.social	Conspiracy theories
mstdn.foxfam.club	Third-party bots
noagendasocial.com	Harassment
shitposter.club	Harassment
sinblr.com	Spam
bsd.moe	Harassment
freezepeach.xyz	Harassment
toot.love	Harassment

Suspended servers

No data from these servers will be processed, stored or exchanged, making any interaction or communication with users from these servers impossible:

Server	Reason
10minutepleroma.com	Spam
baraag.net	Inappropriate content
birdsite.link	Third-party bots
birdsite.monster	Third-party bots
catgirl.life	Harassment
cnet.site	Harassment
coom.club	Harassment
daffodil-11.org	Spam
dlf.social	Inappropriate content
fedi.app	Harassment
feminism.lgbt	Harassment
freespeechextremist.com	Hate speech
gab.ai	Harassment
gab.com	Harassment
gameliberty.club	Bot that announces blocks
glindr.org	Transphobia
iddqd.social	Harassment
jaeger.website	Harassment
kiwifarms.cc	Harassment
kiwifarms.is	Harassment
kiwifarms.net	Harassment
lus*.*oe	Inappropriate content
mastodonhub.com	Mirroring other Mastodon accounts without permission
mela******.tk	Inappropriate content
mouse.services	Harassment
neckbeard.xyz	Inappropriate content
nnia.space	MAPs
pieville.net	Harassment
pl.smuglo.li	Inappropriate content
prete*******.biz	Inappropriate content
raplst.town	Harassment
skippers-bin.com	Inappropriate content
spinster.xyz	Transphobia
twitter.1d4.us	Third-party bots
twitter.activitypub.actor	Third-party bots
wagesofsinisdeath.com	Harassment
waifuappreciation.club	Harassment
waifu.social	Harassment
weedis.life	Spam
yggdrasil.social	Hate speech