Rules

Conduct Rules

• Respect other users and their backgrounds. Examples of some activities that will not be tolerated are:
  • Harassment.
  • Hateful speech.
  • Being transphobic, racist, fascist, religious intolerants, etc...
  • Jokes about suicide, self harm.
  • (And potentially more as we come across specific cases, but you see the picture)
• When interacting with users outside of this server, you have to follow the rules of their server.
  For the majority of cases, following our set of rules should be sufficient.
• You have to follow proper procedures when posting NSFW content.
  If you don't understand what NSFW means, here's the wikipedia article about it.
  • You must hide NSFW content using the Mark media as sensitive checkbox
  • You must put explicit (Pornographic, genitals, fluid everywhere, etc) content on the Unlisted privacy level, or more.
  • You may not have NSFW content in your profiles.
• Sexual depictions of children (either drawn or photographed) are not allowed on this server and are considered like pedopornography.
  This same rule applies if it is your body, you have to be at least 18 years old to post sexually implying pictures of yourself, no exceptions.
• Don't share anyone's personal information without their consent, and delete content about a person should they ask.
• For profit companies account aren't allowed. (If you look around a bit there are servers made specifically for this)
• Offering sex services in exchange for money is prohibited on the server. (If you look around a bit there are servers made specifically for this)
• Boosting content is the same as posting content, if you boost something you endorse it and it must follow these rules.

The Way the Server Works

Politics With Other Servers

"Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive." - Netiquette

• We federate with the whole fediverse.
  That being said, instances that are a common source of content that breaks our rules, or are a source of nuisance might be either:
  • Silenced, where anyone can follow anyone, but posts will be hidden by default.
  • Suspended, which prevents almost all communication with this instance.
• If you're managing a server and believe we have silenced or suspended you unfairly, please reach me on my email.

Administration

• For security purposes, the staff here have access to more information about the instance users.
  • Staff have access to all Followers-only posts.
  • Moderators are able to access to specific Direct posts only if you report them.
  • Administrators are able to access all Direct posts through the database.
    (Not something we usually do, but we want to let you know that Direct posts are not a secure communication channel to share, say, your passwords.)
• Currently, the website is operated by these wonderful people:
  • Antoine / Gakamine - Administrator (me !)
  • Vicenzo - Moderator
  • immychan - Moderator

Server Hardware, Location and Security of Your Content

The server is hosted at Hetzner Cloud in Germany (Nuremberg). The SSL certifications are delivered by Let's Encrypt. Medias are hosted on a CDN but are load through a Proxy to improve users experiences and keep protect users privacy. Here is the server hardware:

• 2 VCPU
• 4GB RAM
• 40GB disk storage

Some Licenses

Blob emojis under Apache 2.0 license (https://blobs.gg/)

Blobfox emojis are from Feuerfuchs (https://www.feuerfuchs.dev/projects/blobfox-emojis/)

Wall of Bakas

These following users help us to financially maintain the server:

• Drycatoh
• Valeren
• Vicenzo
• Duanmu Xi (端木熙)

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
humblr.social
pl.smuglo.li
prout.social
sinblr.com
switter.at
baraag.net	Lax rules around tagging posts as NSFW. This instance also had (has?) issues with illegal content being posted
freefedifollowers.ga
gab.com	Alt-right platform that welcomes fascists
kiwifarms.cc
pawoo.net
preteengirls.biz
yggdrasil.social	Instance welcomes open fascists and has a "no-LGBTQ" policy

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
humblr.social
pl.smuglo.li
prout.social
sinblr.com
switter.at

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
catgirl.life	questionable moderator who has harassed our users and has also made questionable posts about minors in Anime. Also the instance has some highly questionable trending hashtags
distrotoot.com	Single user instance, owner has denied white supremacy and misused the #metoo hashtag
freespeechextremist.com	Welcomes a variety of nasties who are known to harass other users
gab.ai
gameliberty.club	"free speech" instance, owner of the site was seen to harass people, instance is full of 4chan memes
kys.moe	Transphobia toots from the admin
pleroma.soykaf.com	Instance has no TOS, Nazi shit on their timeline and users that harass others
search.fedi.app
shitposter.club	Deliberately edgy "free speech" server
speakitfree.com	Freeze peach
baraag.net	Lax rules around tagging posts as NSFW. This instance also had (has?) issues with illegal content being posted
freefedifollowers.ga
gab.com	Alt-right platform that welcomes fascists
kiwifarms.cc
pawoo.net
preteengirls.biz
yggdrasil.social	Instance welcomes open fascists and has a "no-LGBTQ" policy