Server rules
Below is a summary of rules you need to follow if you want to have an account on this server of Mastodon:
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Do not make oppressive statements (racist, xenophobic, fatphobic, ableist, queerphobic, sexist, antisemitic, etc.), use abusive slurs or spread hate speech.
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Do not engage in harassment of any kind.
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Use content warnings especially when talking about sensitive topics or if you are spoiling recent news in your fandom – see more information below.
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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.
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Do not publish private conversations without explicit consent of all parties involved, except to the moderation team if you need to report them.
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Do not crosspost (from another social network) on the public timelines.
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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.
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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.
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Use of bots on this instance is submitted to admin authorization, including follow bots.
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Be nice to each other.
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 25 July 2022 there are 18 applications pending. Both admins are low on energy these days, so we can take a few weeks to reply to your application.
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
| bungle.online | Federates with a lot of blocked instances |
| 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) |
| cawfee.club | Federates with blocked instances (masochi st, freec*extremists) + racist, homophobic slurs. |
| 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. |
| collapsitarian.io | Admins uses racial slurs, + the instance federates with well-known blocked instances like baest. |
| 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. |
| mastodon.honeypot.im | Conspiracy theories (+ covid denials) |
| *.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. |
| mitra.social | wants to turn fedi into NFTs? + admin's other account is on poa.st. |
| 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) |
| pleroma.viridianpatriots.com | Federates with blocked instances (poast, rdrama…) and admin follows people from these instances. |
| 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. |
| pod.vladtepesblog.com | Admin posts right-wing, climate change denial toots, & the instance is full of reply guys. |
| pokemon.men | Spamming the public timelines. (from block list) |
| pooper.social | Free speech instance, block bot. |
| 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). |
| schwartzwelt.xyz | Lots of racist slurs in the main TL |
| 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.realnephestate.xyz | free speech instance |
| 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.softgirl.online | pedophilia, blockbot, and racism (admin uses slurs). |
| 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 | single user instance, racism & transphobia. |
| 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) |