Before you proceed, please consider the ground rules set by the moderators of mstdn.party.
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Usage prohibited in regions requiring age verification
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Sexually explicit or violent content must be marked with a content warning, and media marked as sensitive.
This includes content that is particularly provocative even if it may not show specific body parts, as well as dead bodies, bloody injuries, and other gore. Particularly obscene content may be prohibited entirely. Profile pictures and header images may not contain sexually explicit or violent media.
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No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
This rule is written as it is on mastodon.social as well as many other generalist instances. The omission of any specific term is not intentional, and bad faith attempts to challenge the exact terminology are considered to be in violation of the rule.
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No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
Calling for people or groups to be assassinated, murdered, or attacked physically is strictly prohibited. Support for violent groups or events is prohibited.
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No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
Repeat attempts to communicate with users who have blocked you or creation of accounts solely to harass or insult individuals is strictly prohibited. Coordinated activity to attack other users is prohibited. Posting of private personal information about others is prohibited.
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Do not share information widely-known to be false and misleading
False and misleading information and links from low-quality sources may not be posted, especially if they are likely to mislead or confuse others or endanger their safety.
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You must specify whether your account is automated
Any accounts that produce automated posts and do not plan to manually respond to replies are considered "bots" here, MUST be marked as an automated account in your profile preferences, and automated posts MUST be marked as unlisted. Exceptions to the unlisted rule may be granted on a case-by-case basis if you ask nicely. Twitter-mirroring instances like BirdsiteLIVE will be suspended: If you want to browse Twitter, use Twitter.
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You must select the appropriate language for each post.
This is necessary for the proper functioning of the timeline language filter as well as the translation feature. If a post is in multiple languages, choose one that represents a significant part of the post.
More info: https://fedi.tips/setting-your-language-preferences-on-mastodon-and-filtering-out-posts-in-other-languages/