Server rules

Below is a summary of rules you need to follow if you want to have an account on this server of Mastodon:

1. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting.
2. No spam or advertising.
3. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism.
4. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
5. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
6. No illegal content.

Social networking, back in your hands

Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 4.4M people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free.

Mastodon isn’t just a website, it is a federation—think Star Trek. Thousands of independent communities running Mastodon form a coherent network, where while every planet is different, being part of one is being part of the whole.

Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools to help protect yourself. Thanks to the network's spread out and independent nature there are more moderators who you can approach for personal help, and servers with strict codes of conduct.

Sharing your thoughts has never been more convenient

You have 1000 characters. You can adjust the thumbnails of your pictures with focal points. You can use custom emojis, hide things behind spoiler warnings and choose who sees a given post. Messed it up? You can delete & redraft for quick corrections.

Mastodon for the individual

Without an incentive to sell you things, Mastodon allows you to consume content you enjoy uninterrupted. Your feed is chronological, ad-free and non-algorithmic—you decide who you want to see!

Be sure to check our Terms & Code of Conduct.

What is Mastodon?

Support the community

Since we do not serve ads and we do not sell data we rely on your support. If you like you can donate to help us out a little. Currently our total costs are about €369/a month for the servers, media storage and costs for emails.

You can help out the community by donating in several ways:

✔️ Become a Patron
✔️ PayPal.me
✔️ CC/iDeal/Bank
✔️ Support on LiberaPay
✔️ Buy us a Ko-Fi
✔️ OpenCollective Backers
✔️ Bitcoin: 154MK3JjgSu9n65xGtvrsmbbznANou86sN
✔️ Ether: 0x7d33fF0a82caAC12b806ad5Ad973eD98932f6a0E

Staff

In addition to the site's owner, @stux Mstdn.social's moderation staff include:

@caranmegil
@calculsoberic
@i3x
@novaburst

Cross-posting

"Cross-posting" is the automatic copying of posts from one platform to another. That definition does not include the simultaneous posting to multiple platforms from the same app, such as Twidere or PostyBirb. If you use those apps, we consider those posts original, and the following need not apply.

Cross-posting from Mastodon to other platforms is fully permitted. Cross-posting into Mastodon from another platform is permitted under the following terms:

1. The posts do not include platform-specific references, e.g. talking about "here" meaning Twitter, or including text from other non-Mastodon users verbatim (e.g. cross-posted quote tweets)
2. The account is at least semi-regularly monitored by the author, so that interactions from Mastodon users are not ignored
3. The account being cross-posted is owned by the same person. Third-party copying of content is not permitted

Tor network access

Since hidden service websites cannot get a valid SSL certificate we use a self-signed one. You can safely accept this and use Mastodon over Tor.

Various resources, such as images, will still be offered through your regular non-Tor domain. How much of a problem this is will depend greatly on your user’s level of caution.

https://c6usaa6obkiahck7rkn2phbffb3strd375pfpxmawuexnmectjizyjad.onion/about

Mobile & Desktop Apps

Thanks to Mastodon's open API, you can use it from any of these apps developed by third-party developers.

Android

• Tusky - free
• Subway Tooter - free
• FediLab - paid

iOS

• Metatext - free
• Mastodon for iOS - free
• Amarok - free
• Toot! - paid
• Mast - paid

Web

• Pinafore - free
• Halcyon - free
• Cuckoo - free

Desktop

• Whalebird - free
• TheDesk - free
• HyperSpace - free
• Sengi - free
• Mastonaut - paid
• Mast - paid

More from

The Fediverse is more than Mastodon, we not only provide an ethical alternative for social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook but we host also some additional services.

Services

• Status - Keep track of past and ongoing issues
• PeerTube - Federated video sharing
• Pixelfed - Federated photo sharing
• Misskey - Federated social network(like Facebook)
• Matrix + Element - Secure, federated chat
• Searx - Privacy search engine proxy
• AllTube - Download videos from everywhere
• Lstu - Privacy-friendly URL shortner
• RSS Bridge - Generate RSS feed from anything
• GitLab - Privacy friendly DevOps platform

Alternate FE

• Halcyon - Alternate Mastodon front-end
• Dashboard FE - Alternate Mastodon font-end
• Invidious - Alternate YouTube front-end
• Nitter - Alternate Twitter front-end
• Bibliogram - Alternate InstaGram front-end

Credits

Our lovely instance mascot is made by one of our very own users @TheCanine

The mstdn.social source code is hosted on our very own GitLab server. You can browse and download the full source code here.

Hosted by Stuxhost.com.

What’s different?

mstdn.social is running on the latest glitch-soc source code. This means we have all the basic functions of Mastodon and more, such as:

• Media improvements
  
  • Images inside the CW spoiler
  • fullwidth images
  • scaling options
• Formatted toots
• Reply selection in lists
• Filter improvements
• Highlighting of misleading links
• Hiding follower count
• An app settings modal
• Collapsible toots
• Toot visibility icons
• Local-only toots
• Threaded mode
• data-* attributes on statuses for custom CSS targeting
• Doodle

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:

Limited 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:

Suspended servers

No data from these servers will be processed, stored or exchanged, making any interaction or communication with users from these servers impossible: