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Toot Café is an instance that was seeded from the web development and design community, so topics may tend to be about JavaScript, CSS, etc. They're not limited to that, though; you can talk about anything you want as long as you follow the Code of Conduct.

Code of Conduct

Prior art

The short version

Don't harass anyone
If someone is harassing you, report it to a moderator
Have fun
Be excellent to each other

Moderators

Current

@nolan

Retired

Rules

No advertising or excessive promotion
No bots, unless they're cute, funny, or useful. Bots should avoid posting to the public timeline.
No pornography, nudity, or something that would be considered "NSFW" in a U.S. workplace, even behind a NSFW warning.
No gore or graphic violence
Content that is borderline NSFW or could be construed as NSFW at a glance should be put behind a CW (Content Warning)
No racism
No sexism
No discrimination based on gender, sexual minority, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or national origin
No xenophobia or violent nationalism
No sexual depictions of children
No holocaust denialism, Nazi symbolism, promotion of National Socialism, or anything that is illegal in the European Union
No stalking or harassment
No fake accounts, even celebrity joke accounts. Note this rule does not necessarily apply to remote accounts.
No "follow bots." We block these and our instance is on a "no bots" list.

Handling harassment

If you are being harassed, please report the user using the "…" button and then "Report." For urgent concerns, please DM a moderator.

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

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

Privacy policy

What will we do with your data? Nothing. How will you be influenced by advertisers? You won't; brands and non-humans (other than fun/useful bots) are banned. How will we aggregate your data in order to improve your service… none of that.

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!)

More privacy measures on toot.cafe:

EXIF data (GPS location, date, camera type, etc.) is stripped from images and never stored.
All crawlers are blocked in robots.txt.
HTTPS is used everywhere thanks to Let's Encrypt.
No ads or trackers.
Links are direct URLs rather than tracking redirects.

Understand though that this instance is run by me and my friends, and (as is the case with all Mastodon servers) we 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.

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

Discussion and Feedback

For questions about policy, bots, design, theming, etc., please refer to our discussions GitHub repo.

Blocked instances

We block some other instances. The full list is below. For disputes, please contact the admin via DM or email.

The purpose of this list is to be transparent to our users. Our rules are based on the example set by mastodon.social.

This list is for informational purposes only. It should not be considered the one definitive list for all-time of instances full of bad people who are bad and should feel bad about themselves. This is a list of instances blocked by toot.cafe based on the judgment of our moderators, our Code of Conduct, and the laws of the United States.

List of blocked instances

Instance	Status*	Reason
rainbowdash.net	silenced	Advice of toot.cat/cybre.space admins, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
shitposter.club	suspended	Advice of toot.cat/cybre.space admins, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**, hosts fake Gargron account
freezepeach.xyz	silenced	Advice of toot.cat/cybre.space admins, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
social.heldscal.la	silenced	Advice of toot.cat/cybre.space admins, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
woofer.alfter.us	silenced	Advice of toot.cat admin, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
social.au2pb.net	silenced	Advice of toot.cat admin, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
gorf.club	silenced	Advice of toot.cat admin, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
sealion.club	silenced	Advice of toot.cat/cybre.space admins, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
gs.smu***.li	suspended	Advice of toot.cat admin, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone, lolicon*
unsafe.space	silenced	Advice of toot.cat admin, GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
pa***.net	suspended	lolicon***
wrongthink.net	silenced	GNUSocial apparent free speech zone**
porntoot.com	suspended	Unflagged porn
ediot.social	silenced	Apparent free speech zone**
admins.town	silenced	Inter-admin politics that doesn't need to pollute the public timeline
social.targaryen.house	silenced	Apparent free speech zone**
noagendasocial.com	silenced	Apparent free speech zone**
social.au2pb.net	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
ika.moe	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
anitwitter.moe	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
baraag.net	suspended	Advice of Dzuk
social.allthefallen.ninja	suspended	Advice of Dzuk
social.homunyan.com	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
pre*********.biz	suspended	Advice of Dzuk
social.hidamari.blue	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
libertarianism.club	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
toot.love	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
pl.smu***.li	suspended	Advice of Dzuk
pleroma.cucked.me	suspended	Advice of Dzuk
voluntaryism.club	silenced	Advice of Dzuk
swit***.at	suspended	FOSTA-SESTA compliance****
bofa.lol	suspended	harassment, brigading
thechad.zone	suspended	harassment, advice of Dzuk
newjack.city	suspended	spammy bot activity
vipgirlfriend.xxx	suspended	Unflagged porn
humblr.social	suspended	Unflagged porn
daffodil-11.org	suspended	Identified by Firefox as a malicious site
gab.com	suspended	Extremism, free speech zone**
exited.eu	suspended	Extremism, free speech zone**
freespeechextremist.com	suspended	Free speech zone**
sinblr.com	suspended	Unflagged porn

Footnotes

* Silenced vs suspended: silenced means they don't appear in the Federated timeline, but if someone discovers the accounts somehow (e.g. via replying to another toot) then they can follow and it will appear in their Home view.
** "Free speech zone": a place where it's permitted to post toots promoting e.g. National Socialism because the argument is that open discussion is more important than people's sensitivities or the denazification laws of Germany/France/etc. The term is not meant in a derogatory way; if there's a better one, let me know.
*** lolicon: sexualized depictions of children
**** content potentially unlawful in the U.S. under FOSTA-SESTA
Some instance names have been censored to avoid effectively linking to potentially illicit content.

Notes on our instance

We don't accept hate speech.
We don't accept violent nationalism or National Socialism.
We are not a "free speech zone."
We come from a different cultural heritage than many of the GNU Social instances.
We pass no judgment on those that do, but our users may not want to engage with such content. This is what alt accounts are for. 😉

References

About this server

The main purple theme and custom icons are by Maxime Le Conte des Floris. The Windows 95 theme is by @chr@cybre.space. The "Paris mon Amour" theme is by @ashfurrow@mastodon.technology. The Photon themes are by Sorin Davidoi.

This server is located near Seattle and is maintained by Nolan Lawson.

Toot Café doesn't need any crowd funding to stay afloat, as long as it stays relatively small. If you'd like to fund Toot Café, I'd recommend funding Mastodon development instead!