ashfurrow / mastodon

My fork of Mastodon, see public branch for docs

This is my fork of Mastodon, a federated social network. This ran mastodon.technology (aka m.t) from 2017-2022, pending shutdown by the end of this year.

Colour scheme available here.

Code of Conduct

One of the things that made m.t special was its Code of Conduct. We created new rules as we learned, and we enforced the Code of Conduct. This wasn't always easy but it made our users feel safe.

In an effort to help other instances create nice places on the internet, here is the Code of Conduct as it existed at the end of m.t's run.

<a href="https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/">mastodon.technology is shutting down by the end of 2022</a>. Please migrate your data immediately.

<h2>Rules</h2>

<ul>
  <li>No advertising or excessive promotion.</li>
  <li>No bots, unless they're cute, funny, or useful. Bots should avoid posting to the public timeline.</li>
  <li>No pornography.</li>
  <li>No gore or graphic violence.</li>
  <li>Content that is borderline NSFW or could be construed as NSFW at a glance should be put behind a CW (Content Warning).</li>
  <li>No racism.</li>
  <li>No sexism.</li>
  <li>No discrimination based on gender, sexual minority, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or national origin.</li>
  <li>No xenophobia, nationalism, casteism, or fascism; no sympathizing with or advocating for these things.</li>
  <li>No sexual depictions of children.</li>
  <li>No holocaust denialism, no Nazi symbolism, no promotion of National Socialism.</li>
  <li>No stalking or harassment. In general, if someone asks you to stop interacting with them, then stop.</li>
  <li>Stalking, harassment, hate speech, or doxing that is posted to other instances or on other social media platforms is still grounds for having your account terminated here.</li>
  <li>No posting (or threatening to post) other people's personally identifying information ("doxing").</li>
  <li>No unwelcome sexual attention.</li>
  <li>No public or private oppressive language or actions.</li>
  <li>No promotion of conspiracy theories (eg anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-COVID).</li>
  <li>No unsolicited advice to strangers.</li>
  <li>No advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behaviour.</li>
  <li>No other unethical conduct.</li>
  <li>No scraping content from web interface or API.</li>
</ul>

<p>To <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance">protect the free speech of users belonging to marginalized groups</a>, mastodon.technology does not federate with overtly fascist instances. Additionally, we will refuse to federate with instances that themselves choose to federate with fascist instances.</p>

<p>Our <a href="https://github.com/ashfurrow/mastodon/blob/public/README.md#blocked-instances">list of blocked instances</a> is publicly documented.</p>

<h2>Handling harassment</h2>

<p>If you are being harassed, please report the user using the "…" button and then "Report." For urgent concerns, please DM <a href="https://mastodon.technology/@ashfurrow">Ash</a>.</p>

<p>If you engage in harassing behavior, the moderator may take any action they deem appropriate, such as a warning or an expulsion.</p>

<p>The above rules may change at any time, and you may be banned at any time based on the moderators' judgment.</p>

<h2>Privacy policy</h2>

<p>What will we do with your data? Nothing. How will you be influenced by advertisers? You won't. How will we aggregate your data in order to improve your service… none of that.</p>

<p>We will never share your data with anyone else, except in the case of valid legal requests if it comes to that. (Hopefully it won't come to that!) Similarly, users and third parties are forbidden from scraping content from the instance's web interface or API; you are required to respect <code>robots.txt</code> files.</p>

<p>More privacy measures on mastodon.technology:</p>

<ul>
  <li>HTTPS is used everywhere thanks to Let's Encrypt.</li>
  <li>No ads or trackers.</li>
  <li>Links are direct URLs rather than tracking redirects.</li>
  <li>Understand though that this instance is run by Ash, and (as is the case with all Mastodon servers) he potentially have access to your data, including DMs. The back-end is also not encrypted. If this is not okay with you, this might not be the instance for you.</li>
</ul>

<p>Also, for truly private data sent between two people, Mastodon offers no E2E encryption. So use Signal for the things you really want to be private.</p>

Block Lists

Here is an archive of our block lists. I've omitted the reasons for each block because a) we weren't consistent with them, and b) I want to take the target off my back. Having our block lists public helped other instances and our users, but it also made m.t and myself the target of some bad people.

Blocked Media

framatube.org
peertube.iselfhost.com
feminism.lgbt
milker.cafe
rubber.social
sinblr.com
*.ngrok.io
gay.nsfw.onl
pleroma.rareome.ga
preteengirls.biz

Limited Servers

admins.town
anitwitter.moe
ediot.social
freezepeach.xyz
gorf.club
gs.smuglo.li
ika.moe
kinkyelephant.com
libertarianism.club
librem.one
rainbowdash.net
sealion.club
shitposter.club
social.au2pb.net
social.heldscal.la
social.hidamari.blue
social.homunyan.com
social.targaryen.house
switter.at
tilvids.com
toot.love
unsafe.space
voluntaryism.club
woofer.alfter.us
wrongthink.net
wxw.moe
feminism.lgbt
milker.cafe
rubber.social
sinblr.com

Suspended servers

*.10minutepleroma.com
434.earth
7td.org
albin.social
anime.website
archivefedifor.fun
artritelacy.jp
bae.st
bakabakufu.nsfw.cafe
baraag.net
beefyboys.club
benis.freemyip.com
bofa.lol
brighteon.social
buckeye.social
cawfee.club
club.darknight-coffee.org
crucible.world
crypto-group-buy.com
cum.salon
d-fens.systems
dbuild.xyz
degenerates.fail
detroitriotcity.com
develop.gab.com
djitter.com
dlf.social
eientei.org
fedi.app
fedichive.tk
fr13nd5.com
freeatlantis.com
freecumextremist.com
freedomofpress.rocks
freefedifollowers.ga
freesoftwareextremist.com
freespeech.firedragonstudios.com
freespeechextremist.com
friendica.eskimo.com
gab.ai
gab.com
gab.io
gabfed.com
gameliberty.club
gasthe.lgbt
gendercritical.club
gendercritical.space
gitmo.life
gleasonator.com
glindr.org
hatthieves.es
hayu.sh
humblr.social
hunk.city
iddqd.social
is.badat.dev
itmslaves.com
kag.social
kiwifarms.cc
kiwifarms.is
kiwifarms.net
lanceur-alerte.social
lanceur-alerte.tv
liberdon.com
marsey.club
masochi.st
masthead.social
mastodon.bgzashtita.es
mastodon.org.uk
mastodon.someotherguy.xyz
mastodon.starrevolution.org
mstdn.foxfam.club
mu.zaitcev.nu
neckbeard.xyz
newjack.city
nicecrew.digital
noagendasocial.com
nomoresha.me
pawoo.net
paypig.org
pedo.school
pieville.net
pl.smuglo.li
pleroma.cucked.me
pleroma.kiwifarms.net
pleroma.miria.love
pleroma.mouse.services
pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz
poa.st
pooper.social
pornfed.social
porntoot.com
posting.lolicon.rocks
psimon.world
qoto.org
rage.lol
raki.social
raplst.town
rdrama.cc
redliberal.com
relay.selfhosting.rocks
s.sneak.berlin
shortstackran.ch
social.allthefallen.ninja
social.ancreport.com
social.byoblu.com
social.getgle.org
social.lovingexpressions.net
social.pseudo-whiskey.bar
social.quodverum.com
social.sphere.com.ai
social.thisisjoes.site
socnet.supes.com
solagg.com
speakfree.world
spinster.xyz
springbo.cc
thebag.social
thechad.zone
tmediatech.io
toot.pt
traboone.com
truthsocial.co.in
truthsocial.com
tube.querdenken-711.de
varishangout.net
videos.lukesmith.xyz
weedis.life
wurm.host
xn--6r8h.tk
yggdrasil.social
yorishiro.space
zetsubou.xn--q9jyb4c
*.ngrok.io
gay.nsfw.onl
pleroma.rareome.ga
preteengirls.biz