These are set and enforced by the kind.social moderators.
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Don't be an asshole, and don't post anything illegal. Those concepts guide most other rules & moderation.
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No discrimination, harassment, or bigotry based on - but not limited to: race, color, ethnicity, nationality, religion, shape, sex, gender, sexuality, or ability.
Also, no disinfo, conspiracists, trolls, etc.
Please, also report these if encountered.
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Content Warnings & Sensitive Media labels are required for explicit or graphic content (NSFW.)
CWs, Alt Text, & PascalCase hashtags are encouraged to improve everyone's experiences, especially disabled users. However, policing or bullying people to use them is unacceptable.
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For longer series of posts made on the same day, such as threads or live-tooting, set the Visibility of posts after the first one to Unlisted/Quiet Public. This keeps our Local Live Feed usable.
In general, consider that Public posts show in Local, and adjust Visibility accordingly when reasonable.
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Small businesses & independent creators, along with their self-promotion, are welcomed and encouraged.
However, no big corp/org advertising, spam, or accounts.
No crypto advertising, spam, or accounts.
No proselytizing or preaching.
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No "AI" advertising, hyping, spam, or accounts.
No posting of LLM or genAI output.
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Automated & Bot accounts must be labeled as such. If the account will be regularly posting more than 3 times a day, posts should be set as Unlisted/Quiet Public by default to prevent clogging up our Local Live Feed. No scraper, scam, spam, follow, or boost bots.
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Check out the admin's Pinned Posts for user info like: how to migrate servers, app suggestions, Mastodon norms, & more. The admin's profile can be found at https://kind.social/@Texan_Reverend
If you have questions or want help configuring your account & app, Texan_Reverend is only an @ away.