Moderation

Our moderation is opinionated and collaboratively done between local moderators and with moderation friends from other instances. We try to have a good balance between having a safe community with little nuisance while being openly federated with wider communities.

We have little spoons to deal with issues and tend to take action swiftly. We suspend instances that:

• Consists of having communities/a majority of users who are racist/facists, queerphobic, and anything else crossing those lines or breaks any of our rules.
• Known instances or communities/groups that harass others/our own communities and friends.
• Heavily radiates "Bad Vibes" to us collectively as a community (In ways where an instance may not appear bad on the surface, but consistently points in directions that nudges towards ideas that either harm us or risks our own safety).
• Maliciously modifies federation (Ignoring deletes, converting non-public posts to public, Etc.)

For anything else, we usually tend to media-silence:

• Instances without rules for tagging content/with users that consistently don't properly tag posts, such as politics and NSFW-related posts.
• Instances that mainly to only consists of heavy amounts of "Irony-poisoned" or "racism funny" posting.
• Instances that may not be "bad" or break any rules on the surface, but collectively gives us very offputting vibes that we deem it possibly unsafe and limit federation for safety reasons.
• Large instances that could be affected by spam attacks.

By default, we don't block through guilt-by-federation. However, if we find an instance that consistently federates or otherwise associates and notably supports bad actors - more specifically those who have otherwised harmed us or others/close friends and instances before - we may consider the instance for suspension depending on the case. This is entirely for the safety of our own community and the many risk factors of keeping continued federation.

We also may suspend/silence instances if our users are reportedly uncomfortable about them, whether via the users or the content on the instance. Again, we want a safe space for ourselves and friends.

Our actions aren't limited to what is based on interactions from/within our own community. If we find harassment or otherwise any negative behavior towards other users or our close friends/instances, action will still be done. Remember: we moderate collaboratively.

To be frank, we are a small group of burned-out moderators with past negative experiences on the fediverse and therefore choose to moderate how we will to protect ourselves and our community.

If you're a user, and would like to question any of our moderation decisions or actions, or talk about a specific instance (or for more information on why we block/silence a specific instance), feel free to bring it up with the moderators/administrators. If it's an instance/user you deem should be up for moderation action, report it instead.

To see moderation lists, such as silenced and blocked instances, please check the About Instance information on your instance to see if it's made available to you directly. If that is not the case, ask a moderator/administrator and give you a copy of our current list.