Masto Social
Explore and discover a brand new social network build with open source software with a focus on privacy. This Mastodon instance is white-list only meaning the staff approves the connected servers from the Fediverse.
Rules and guidelines
- No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, casteism
- No sexual depictions of minors
- No spam
- No bots
- No cross-posting from Twitter
Use content warnings
- CW explicit, sensitive, or lengthy posts on public timelines.
- Be respectful of CW requests, even if you don't personally find the content offensive.
- Informed consent: if you post untagged sensitive content in follower posts, place a CW in your profile if your account is unlocked.
Respect artists' wishes
- If an artist does not want their work rehosted elsewhere, link to its source; don't repost.
- When posting media that isn't yours, attribute and link the artist when possible.
- No accounts whose primary purpose is to repost art from elsewhere.
Safety and legal requirements
- You must be 18 or older. If we find out you're not, your account will be deleted.
- No explicit content involving minors.
- No content that's illegal in the US or Germany.
In-depth
The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of masto.social; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:
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The following types of content will be removed from the public
timeline:
- Excessive advertising
- Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
- Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
- Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
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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:
- Racism or advocation of racism
- Sexism or advocation of sexism
- Casteism or advocation of casteism
- Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
- Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
- Spreading disinformation or conspiracy theories that undermine public health
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The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will
result in revocation of access to the service:
- Sexual depictions of children
- Content illegal in Germany, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
- Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 not permitted.
Connected servers
Users and content from these servers can be interacted with from here: