No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, casteism
No sexual depictions of minors
No spam
No bots
Supplementary Rules
The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of mastodon.thedecentralists.com; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:
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
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
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 and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
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.
The Decentralists Mastodon instance is about building a supportive community for social media decentralization. Our goal is to help and equip individuals and businesses who'd like to migrate their social media presence to decentralized platforms.