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. Do not make oppressive statements (racist, xenophobic, fatphobic, ableist, queerphobic, sexist, antisemitic, etc.), use abusive slurs or spread hate speech.
2. Do not engage in harassment of any kind.
3. Use content warnings especially when talking about sensitive topics or if you are spoiling recent news in your fandom – see more information below.
4. You can post nudity, as long as it is protected by the adequate content warnings. Pornography is restricted to followers-only posts from 18+ accounts. Pedopornography is forbidden.
5. Do not publish private conversations without explicit consent of all parties involved, except to the moderation team if you need to report them.
6. Do not crosspost (from another social network) on the public timelines.
7. Avoid reposting art. Boost the original toot or, if the art is not from Mastodon, credit and link to the artist, and ideally also ask for their permission.
8. Do not create any sort of corporate account for advertising purposes. Artists are of course allowed (and encouraged!) to promote their own shops and commissions.
9. Use of bots on this instance is submitted to admin authorization, including follow bots.
10. Be nice to each other.

Boosting is held to the same standards as direct posting; only boost toots that respect these rules.

Want to join us?

Tell us why you want to join our instance specifically, when there are so many different options on Mastodon! You can tell us about your current fandoms, about your online communities, and even share other social media accounts if you feel like it.

FanDen is a small instance and we try to keep it that way so that everybody can know each other, and for this reason we cannot accept everybody.

We are manually processing each application. This takes time (5 to 10 minutes each), so we process 0 to 25 applications per day depending on our time and energy. Therefore, do not fret if you do not hear back from us instantly, we will send you an email to tell you whether your request has been approved or declined.

As of 15 June 2022 there are 7 applications pending, each of them got a follow-up email asking for more details.

What is Fandom Garden?

In Fandom Garden, you are free to gush about the fandoms you like, whether they're related to books, comics, TV shows, movies or music. Come and find fellow fans to share your passion with!

This is a queer, anti-racist, anti-ableist space. We aims to be a sex-positive instance, with a strong opt-in culture for adult content. Our main language is English, and you need to be at least 13 years old to sign up.

We are aware that fandoms can be toxic, but we hope to foster a good environment rather than an abusive one. We believe that you can enjoy content that has flaws (or was made by flawed creators) without glorifying said flaws (or flawed creators). Always prefer calling in rather than calling out, and never harass fellow fans over their interests: if they are breaking our rules, for instance by promoting hate speech, simply report them.

The same goes for writing about fictional abuse and abusive relationships: we recognize the need for this content to exist, but since it is a hurtful topic for a lot of people, proceed with caution, do not glorify known abusers and use content warnings as much as possible.

Do not hesitate to make your experience of this instance more comfortable by muting fandoms, characters or relationships that you don't want to see in your feed! The same goes with users, nobody should hold it against you if you mute or block them.

Moderation

The instance's moderation is taken care of voluntarily by the administrators. They enforce the above-listed rules. To that end, they are free to use all the tools at their disposal.

We also try to block any instances that contradict our rules, as well as those which lack consistent moderation. If you think an instance should be blocked, contact our moderation team.

In order to declutter the instance, we take actions to delete any account that has been inactive for more than six (6) months. We send two warning emails first, and if these haven't gotten any reply we delete or deactivate the account.

Fandom Garden is run by @gardener, @ikol, @ariel and @rainbowhalo. Together they speak Dutch, English, Finnish, French, and Italian. You can support the instance by helping with the server costs on Liberapay.

Recommendation: Content Warnings

Content warnings are inbuilt in Mastodon, meaning there is a "CW" button that hides the content of a post under a "show more".

As a general rule, before you post a message, ask yourself whether everybody wants to see what you have posted without warning. Maybe your message will trigger a panic attack for some people? Maybe some folks read Mastodon among their family or at work, and don’t want to see graphic images appear suddenly on their screen?

Having a content warning allows others to choose to confront themselves with topics that can be hard for them, instead of having these topics forced upon them.

Some people also use the CW field as announcement or as title for the topic of their post, or to say that their toot is long: that way, the toot is folded and doesn’t clutter the feed.

A non-exclusive list of topics for which you should use CWs is:

• Spoilers
• Not Safe For Work : sexual content and violent/gore content
• Politics, religion, discrimination (transphobia, sexism, xenophobia…)
• Mental health: depression, suicide, usual phobias…
• Physical health: medical topics, diets…
• Common addictions: alcohol, cigarettes, drugs…
• Food: you can specify whether it's kosher, vegetarian, vegan…
• Violence: physical & mental abuse, toxic relationships…
• Weapons: guns, blades…
• Flashing pieces of media
• Caps: contains at least one word written in capital letters
• Media without alternative text

Recommendation: Image Descriptions

If you have the energy for it, try to write image descriptions of the pictures you post. This can be done by clicking on the image in the Compose Box (on the Mastodon web app it's the Edit button, on Tusky it's a round A with a checkbox).

Image descriptions can be a few words (“Books on a shelf.”) or several sentences (“Four books on a shelf. From left to right: […]”). The text should convey what the image mean. If it’s a picture you took, explain what drew your eye; if it’s a graph, explain its behavior and key numbers. You don't have to talk about all the details; just explain what matters to you!

If the image is a long text, you can try to use Mastodon's text recognition if you use the web app. Otherwise, you can mention @OCRbot and it will reply with its text recognition. Be mindful that OCR doesn’t always work, and it’s best to copy and edit the output of the bot rather than letting disabled users try to decipher what the text says.

If you don’t have the energy to write an image description, you can write so in the CW, use the :helpDescribe:​ emoji to invite people to add one, or tag the @imagecaptionpls group which will notify everyone who follows the group that there’s someone who needs an image description.

If you see an image without description, you can reply to the post, remove the mention of the OP, and write the image description.

Privacy Policy

You can choose the privacy level of each of your toots (direct message, followers-only, public). We do not process or sell your data in any way. However, every toot, even sent in private, can be seen by the moderating team if there is a report against it. This means that toots are not encrypted and could be accessed by a third party in case of malicious attacks or legal actions. Therefore, if you wish to discuss sensitive topics, we recommend you use another medium.

Credits

This instance is set up thanks to MaaStodon, which handles the server.

Our mascot (the raccoon reading a scroll) was designed by Mirima.

The banner was drawn by Kaerhon.

This instance uses emojis from several sources:

• Mutant Standard emoji, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
• Blob emojis from the Blob Emoji Community. They are licensed under the Apache License 2.0, and are inspired by Google's Noto Emojis.
• The Marvel, OFMD & rainbow eyes emojis are made by ikol, under the CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.
• The sparkling pride hearts were made by Kat, licensed under CC0 (free distribution).
• The other queer emojis were made by Zoë Bijl. They're all licensed under CC0, and you can find some of them in their QueerCats project.
• The blobCheer emojis were made by Shiro, the blobDisapproval and blowTmi emoji were made by Kuro. They are all licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.
• The raccoon emojis were made by Claire, based on the Google blob emojis.
• The Sushi Cats emojis were made by @kkcake and are free to use as emojis.
• The lookalike Red Velvet logo was made by @rainbowhalo, under the CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.
• The emoji to indicate an image description is needed was made by @t54r4n1 and is free to use as an emoji.
• The blobs holding kpop band lightsticks were made by @Sapphaos

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
librenet.co.za	Antivaxx, racism and much more. (from block list)
parler.socialq.club	Fediverse replacement for Parler. (from block list)
pornssd.com	Uncensored NSFW (from block list)
theautisticinvestors.quest	Domain is being silenced for hate speech. (from block list)

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:

Server	Reason
kinky.business	Unmarked NSFW content. (from block list)
kinkyelephant.com	Unmarked NSFW content. (from block list)
mastodon.top	far-right instance.
mstdn.io	Free speech instance with several blocked users.
sinblr.com	Unmarked NSFW content. (from block list)
switter.at	Unmarked NSFW content. (from block list)
theres.life	Allows all sorts or bigotry as long as they're Christian. The admin does try to process reports though, so we only silenced the instance for now.

Suspended servers

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

Server	Reason
076.ne.jp	transphobia, antisemitism, racism, and ableism.
activism.openworlds.info	Racism. (from block list)
amala.schwartzwelt.xyz	Transphobia
angrytoday.com	Free speech.
anime.website	pro-pedophilia, lolicon.
app.kenhbit.com	Crypto spam (from block list)
bae.st	New instance of neckbeard.xyz that we suspend as well. Free speech instance, violently transphobic users and references to Nazism.
bajax.us	Private instance, admin is a troll (uses the n-word + transphobic).
baraag.net	This instance is sharing animated underage images. (from block list)
beefyboys.club	Related to beefyboys.win.
beefyboys.win	Publicly says it's an unsafe space + hosts harrassers.
berserker.town	federating and being friendly with a bunch of freeze peach instances + hosts ableist, transphobic and fascist conspiracy theorists. Also, they don't moderate any post from another instance.
bestgore.fun	PeerTube instance full of gore and making fun of executions.
birds.garden	Single-user instance that federates with blocked instance (and is "against" #fediblock).
bitcoinhackers.org	Not moderated, no contact, hosts racist and conspiracy theory accounts.
brighteon.social	Far-right instance that thinks that fact-checking is a scam.
bruh.homd.xyz	Channer type.
buildthatwallandmakeamericagreatagain.trumpislovetrumpis.life	Being suspended for racism, transphobia, and xenophobia. (from block list)
cachapa.moe	Single-user instance, nazi.
carnivore.social	Rightwing extremists (from block list)
cassone.social	COVID-19 misinformation (from block list)
catgirl.life	Illegal content. (from block list)
censorship.icu	Conspiracy theory-based PeerTube instance. (from block list)
childpawn.shop	Obvious child pornography site. No moderation.
chungus.cc	Racist shithole (from block list)
clubcyberia.co	Blatant homophobia in the instance rules.
comfyboy.club	No moderation, no Terms of service, federates with blocked servers (poa.st, sleepy.cafe…)
couter.social	Admin stole and rebranded Mastodon source code, he's a thief. (from block list)
cum.desupost.soy	racism, sexism, transphobia
cum.salon	Instance is anti-transgender and also shares other offensive material. (from block list)
cunny.finance	Explicitly no site rules.
detroitriotcity.com	transmisic admin
d-fens.systems	No moderation, federates with a lot of unreputable instances.
djsumdog.com	Free speech + anti-abortion & conspiracy takes by the owner of the instance.
dobbs.town	Hosts users who hold transphobic, anti-abortion discourse.
eientei.org	Racist hate pool (from block list)
*eskimo.com	"Censorship-free" instance, admin is a conspiracy theorist (antivax, denies global warming, etc).
etiketi.de	hosts account of Boris Reitschuster, rightwing conspiracy theorist. + admin posts corona conspiracies
eveningzoo.club	Federating with a lot of already blocked instances. Users promote harrassment, transphobia and racism.
fedi.anti-degeneracy.club	Transmisia + federates with blocked instances.
fedi.pawlicker.com	No moderation policy + hosts at least one harasser.
fediverse.to	Fediverse scraper with no criteria for in/exclusion.
fedi.z0ne.moe	This instance is sharing underage material. (from block list)
fr13nd5.com	Likely a single-user instance, harasses folks with either spam or odd replies.
freak.university	paraphilia.
freeatlantis.com	No moderation policy, admin is an empty shell, hosts anti-abortion users.
freecumextremist.com	shitposting instance.
freespeechextremist.com	Racist, sexist, transphobic statements.
freespeech.group	Allows discriminatory language against marginalized groups of people. (from block list)
freewahaextremist.wtf	Same racist & ableist admin as desupost.soy.
friendica.eskimo.com	Same thing as eskimo.com
gab.com	Far-right instance.
gameliberty.club	Hosts nazi accounts, and allows all art, even nsfw with minors.
gearlandia.haus	Admins post hate speech. Harassment of Cloud Island administrator.
genitalia.observer	Pedophilia
gleasonator.com	Doesn't moderate transphobic statements.
glindr.org	Doesn't moderate transphobic comments.
globalfrens.com	Channer type.
glowers.club	No moderation policy + hosts harassers.
goyim.app	Nazi user, no instance moderation.
hallsofamenti.io	far-right USA instance, transphobic accounts.
helladoge.com	dogecoin instance, encourages spam and following people with no regard for privacy.
hentai.baby	supporting ""minor attraction"" (i.e. pedophilia) and rape.
homoo.social	This instance is sharing underage material. (from block list)
honkwerx.tech	Admin is publicly racist, misogynistic and transphobic.
hunk.city	Misogynist instance, people use slurs against various minorities.
iddqd.social	Nazi sympathizers using Nazi imagery. Plus they're tracking down who's blocking them.
jojo.singleuser.club	No moderation; racist and transphobic statements.
justicewarrior.social	"Free speech" instance with no moderation rules.
kiwifarms.cc	Kiwi Farms' official instance. Users from this instance are known to dox and harass people (online and offline), leading to severe consequences.
kys.moe	Federates with other bad instances, sometimes uses slurs, admin is literally called "rude".
leafposter.club	"Free speech" instance hosting transphobic accounts.
libranet.de	This domain is being suspended for hate speech and images. (from block list)
libre.tube	Hosts gore and conspiracy theory videos.
librosphere.fr	instance maintenue par une personne connue pour être d'extrême droite
ligma.pro	Transphobic statements, instance admin publicly states that if you don't like it you should block it.
lizards.live	Admin is fatphobic and a troll
loli.pizza	Loli content (from block list)
lolison.top	Federates with other known hate instances + Encouraging harassment of admin.
m.anirloli.dev	This instance is posting animated underage material. (from block list)
masochi.st	Racist admin (from block list)
mastodon.derveni.org	No moderation rules + conspiracy theory users.
mastodon.green	Racist/xenophobic terms of use.
*.mastodonhub.com	Spreading fake information purposely (from block list)
mastodon.someotherguy.xyz	Single user, transphobia and right-wing conspiracy theories.
melalandia.tk	Hate speech and pedopornography.
misskey.cafkafk.com	4-chan-like.
moa.mastodonhub.com	Spreading fake information purposely (from block list)
monads.online	This instance is posting offensive political content related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. (from block list)
mulmeyun.church	free speech instance with no moderation rules.
musksocial.com	"for those that hold to Elon's ideals of "Free Speech"
my.dirtyhobby.xyz	No moderation policy, hosts people who glorify incest.
neckbeard.xyz	Free speech instance, transphobic users and references to Nazism.
nicecrew.digital	Free speech instance, hosts harassers.
nnia.space	paraphilia
noagendasocial.com	No moderation policy, lots of free speech accounts, also misogynistic, anti-abortion, conspiracy theory accounts.
ns.auction	Racist instance + hosts harassers.
open.tube	expired certificate but peertube instance with lots of alt-right / covid denial content from the local users + federating
pawlicker.com	No moderation policy + hosts harassers
pawoo.net	This instance is sharing underage material. (from block list)
paypig.org	Interacting with known hate instances - Encouraging harassment of admin.
pieville.net	Nazi users.
pkteerium.xyz	Soapbox instance, admin is posting/boosting conspiracy theory.
pl.anon-kenkai.com	Code of Conduct is a literal joke, plus the instance is full of antisemitic, queerphobic and racist stuff, including from the admin.
pleroma.eientei.org	Absolutely no site rules (explicitly said so in the About page).
pleroma.kitsunemimi.club	Racism, transmisia, federates with poast.
pleroma.miria.love	Loli content (from block list)
pleroma.narrativerry.xyz	Admin is a homophobe and antivax.
pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz	Openly nazi and transphobic.
pleroma.soykaf.com	This instance is posting underage material. (from block list)
pl.gamers.exposed	Racist slurs by admin (from block list)
pl.wowana.me	Racism, sexism, encouraging suicides.
pl.zombiecats.run	Transphobic single user instance
pmth.us	Right-wing, anti-abortion, etc.
poa.st	Extremely queerphobic harassment.
pokemon.men	Spamming the public timelines. (from block list)
posting.lolicon.rocks	Pedocriminality
pub.getgle.org	Not moderated. Hosts misogyny, racism, transmisia, antisemitism and genocide denial.
quietplace.xyz	Hosts trolls.
rakket.app	shitposting, without censorship
rapefeminists.network	Encourages rape.
rapemeat.shop	Gore instance. (from block list)
raplst.town	Encourages rape.
raygungothic.xyz	Free speech instance that explicitly allows users to post any opinion they "like". Problematic admin.
rdrama.cc	No moderation policy, encourages spam, admin is transphobic and a troll, users post nazi imagery.
respublicae.eu	Bot-only instance flooding the public timelines. (from block list)
rojogato.com	No moderation policy + hosts harrassers.
ryona.agency	Admin is publicly racist, antisemitic, misogynistic and transphobic.
sb.greenboys.club	Admin has accounts on blocked instances (baest).
shigusegubu.club	No moderation, doesn't block any instance.
shitposter.club	Oppressive shitposting.
shortstackran.ch	No moderation policy, federates with blocked instances (poast, kiwifarm), full of racism, homophobia, bigotry.
sleepy.cafe	Homophobic and transphobic accounts, no moderation rules.
sneed.social	Racism (from block list)
social.anoxinon.de	Does not moderate anti-mask discourse.
social.byoblu.com	Spreading fake news. (from block list)
social.fbxl.net	FediBlock because of explicit wish of the admin.
social.freetalklive.com	Federates with blocked instances, has absolutely no moderation policy.
social.getgle.org	Being suspended for racism and transphobia (from block list)
social.imirhil.fr	Private instance, created to circumvent suspensions.
social.labmonkeys.space	Soapbox.
social.lovingexpressions.net	hosts nazis
social.midwaytrades.com	Transphobia and other right-wing stuff.
social.pseudo-whiskey.bar	Admin boosts pedoporn and uncensored porn.
social.teci.world	free speech instance with no moderation policy
social.urspringer.de	False information spreading. (from block list)
socks.pinnoto.org	Federates with blocked instances (and admins interact with people from these instances)
soc.mahodou.moe	Racism, ableism, trolling, and priding themselves in having "No blocks on any instances" and "Super lax TOS" on their server.
socnet.supes.com	right-wing, free speech stuff.
solagg.com	Spam instance (from block list)
someotherguy.xyz	Single user instance, transphobia and right-wing conspiracy theories.
spinster.xyz	Transphobic (TERF) policies.
stop.voring.me	Hosts minors posting sexual content
strelizia.net	Admin follows people from blocked instances ; hosts people who use slurs against minorities.
terrible.place	Not a good instance name. Also, fascism, racism and harrassment.
theduran.icu	Right-wing conspiracy theory and misinformation. (from block list)
thewallsofnight.com	Soapbox + no moderation policy.
tmediatech.io	Trump social network
truthsocial.co.in	pro-Trump instance.
truthsocial.com	Trump instance
truthsocialpro.org	Another copy of Trump social media instance. No moderation despite the moderation policy.
twhtv.club	Soapbox + federates with blocked instances.
unsafe.space	The name itself says it all: this is not a safe space.
uwu.social	hosts nazis
varishangout.net	Hosts harassers.
vrij.social	Dutch alt-rights (from block list)
wei.mentalswarf.com	soapbox instance.
wintermute.fr.to	Instance posting illegal content. (from block list)
wolfgirl.bar	Sexist and very violent terms of service, transphobic admin, no moderation.
xn--p1abe3d.xn--80asehdb	Transphobic admin (from block list)
yggdrasil.social	Completely queerphobic (even on the About page).
youjo.love	This instance is sharing child abuse material. (from block list)
zetamu.club	paraphilia
librenet.co.za	Antivaxx, racism and much more. (from block list)
parler.socialq.club	Fediverse replacement for Parler. (from block list)
pornssd.com	Uncensored NSFW (from block list)
theautisticinvestors.quest	Domain is being silenced for hate speech. (from block list)