Rules
- Be human, nice, respectful and constructive.
- Don't be a pain in the ass and full of hate.
- Please use the english language.
- No Pseudoscience like Flat Earth theory, Antivaccine and so on.
- No porn, piracy, spam, hate speech, brigading, gore, doxing, racism and any kind of discrimination.
- Bots (including Twitter crossposting bots) must display the Bot tag on their profile, respect #nobots in bios (if following users), and make unlisted posts by default. Failure to do so will result in either being silenced or suspended.
Invitations
On August 15, 2019, we made the decision to go invite-only. This decision may be temporary, or it may be permanent. We'll see how it goes.
Any existing user can create and send invitations! Visit https://social.privacytools.io/invites to create an invite link. We highly encourage users to invite people they know or people that may be interested in joining our community.
If you're looking to join social.privacytools.io and don't know any existing users, that's fine too! Send an email to support@privacytools.io and maybe include a quick message about why you'd like to join this instance. We'd love to have you!
Why did this happen? Honestly, spam is one reason for sure. We want to cut down on the amount of automated registrations and we're hoping this helps. But another reason is just to keep this community small. Limiting registrations will help keep the quality of our conversations up. Not everything is about the user count!
Can I share invites publicly? Use your best judgement. If you want to send an invite to a group, forum, chat room, subreddit, etc. that's totally fine! We do ask that you either time-limit your invitation, or set a maximum number of uses for invitations you post publicly. There's options to do that on the invite creation page.
I don't want to wait for an invite. The beauty of Mastodon is federation: A user on one instance can interact with a user on another! There's many other great instances listed at joinmastodon.org, and you'll still be able to follow and message users on this instance, and any other instance!
Who to follow?
Here are some privacy related profiles accross the Mastodon Network.
Follow privacytools.io @privacytools@social.privacytools.io
Follow BurungHantu @BurungHantu@social.privacytools.io
Follow OpenNIC Project @opennic@triplebit.net
Follow Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io
Follow Mastodon @Mastodon@mastodon.social
Follow The Tor Project @torproject@mastodon.social
Follow Privacy International @privacyint@mastodon.xyz
Follow ProtonMail @protonmail@mastodon.social
Follow ProtonVPN @protonvpn@mastodon.social
Follow Tutanota @Tutanota@mastodon.social
Follow Nextcloud @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz
Follow Qwant.com @Qwant@social.privacytools.io
Follow LibreOffice @libreoffice@fosstodon.org
Follow Purism @purism@librem.one
Follow Matrix.org @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org
Follow PixelFed @pixelfed@mastodon.social
Follow Prismo @prismo@mastodon.social
Follow Funkwhale @funkwhale@mastodon.eliotberriot.com
Follow CryptPad @cryptpad@social.weho.st
Follow Disroot.org @disroot@social.weho.st
Follow YunoHost @yunohost@mastodon.social
Follow switching.social @switchingsocial@mastodon.at
Follow ThinkPrivacy.io (Dan Arel) @danarel@mastodon.technology
Follow infosec-handbook.eu @infosechandbook@chaos.social
Follow CCC @CCC@social.bau-ha.us
Follow FreedomBox @freedomboxfndn@mastodon.social
Follow Freedombone @freedombone@soc.freedombone.net
Follow Electronic Frontier Foundation (Unofficial) @eff@mastodon.social
Follow Tusky @Tusky@mastodon.social
Follow Keybase @keybase@mastodon.social
Follow Debian @debian@fosstodon.org
Follow Matomo (Piwik) @Matomo@mastodon.social
Follow Nitrokey @Nitrokey@chaos.social
Follow Yale Privacy Lab @privacylab@mastodon.social
Follow blacklight447 @blacklight447@social.privacytools.io
More? Check out Trunk
Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with the Fediverse.Moderated servers
Mastodon generally allows you to view content from and interact with users from any other server in the fediverse. These are the exceptions that have been made on this particular server.
Filtered media
Media files from these servers will not be processed or stored, and no thumbnails will be displayed, requiring manual click-through to the original file:
| Server | Reason |
|---|---|
| gameliberty.club | |
| abdl.link | |
| gab.com | |
| humblr.social | |
| neckbeard.xyz | |
| pl.smuglo.li | |
| porn-k.com | |
| sinblr.com |
Silenced servers
Posts from these servers will be hidden in public timelines and conversations, and no notifications will be generated from their users interactions, unless you are following them:
| Server | Reason |
|---|---|
| baraag.net | |
| freespeechextremist.com | |
| social.quodverum.com | |
| abdl.link | |
| gab.com | |
| humblr.social | |
| neckbeard.xyz | |
| pl.smuglo.li | |
| porn-k.com | |
| sinblr.com |