It is our intention that you use this service for personal enjoyment and respectful, friendly interaction. To that end, we hope to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment.
The server is privately owned and open to users voluntarily, not a public space. Users wishing to join this community are expected to act without malice and in good faith. Doing otherwise may lead to removal from the service, independent of whether a user violates any rules outlined below.
The administrator of this instance is @jakob.
The server hosting the instance is located in Germany.
The following statements apply regardless of privacy level and instance of the users involved. In rare cases, public or private offline conduct or conduct on a separate instance may constitute grounds for removal from the service.
This instance's rules can be summarized as "be excellent to each other".
As this instance was built mainly for a group of friends, there are no specific rules but users will be banned should their behavior be considered inappropriate by an administrator or moderator.
Content on this instance must not be used for the purposes of machine learning or other "research" purposes without the explicit consent of the users involved.
Content on this instance beyond this page must not be archived or indexed wholesale by automated means by any user or service. Active users may export their following lists and posts through the export provided on their settings page, or the API.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with HTTPS, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You may enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your account.
You can request and download an archive of your content, including your posts, media attachments, profile picture, and header image.
You may irreversibly delete your account at any time.
If we judge you to be breaking our instance rules, we may irreversibly delete your account at any time.
Information is not disclosed unless you explicitly permit it. The only exception is the provider of our server, who is a trusted and unavoidable third party.
Contacting or permitting contact from a user from a different instance implies your consent that the required data is shared with the server in question.
Authorization of a third-party application grants information access depending on the scope of permissions you approve. The application may access your public profile information, your following list, your followers, your lists, all your posts, and your favourites. Applications can never access your e-mail address or password.
Semi-private Mastodon instance for Chaosfield, Paranoidlabs and friends. Mastodon is a decentralized social network without ads or a single corporation you have to trust with your data. Want an account here without e-mail address of the aforementioned domains? Just write me a short mail. I don't bite :P