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. Use content warnings, especially when talking about sensitive topics or if you are spoiling recent news in your fandom.
3. 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.
4. Do not publish private conversations without explicit consent of all parties involved, except to the moderation team if you need to report them.
5. Do not crosspost (from another social network) on the public timelines.
6. Do not repost art without crediting the artist.
7. Do not create any sort of corporate account for advertising purposes.

Introduction

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!

Our main language is English. 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.

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!

Expected behavior

• Be nice to each other.
• Use content warnings (the CW button), especially if you talk about sensitive topics or if you're spoiling a recent piece of media in your fandom. A non-exclusive list of topics for which you have to 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, alcohol, drugs, diets…)
  • Caps (even if it's one word)
  • Food
  • Violence (physical & mental abuse, toxic relationships…)
  • Weapons (guns, blades…)
  • Flashing pieces of media
• You can post nudity on the public timelines, as long as it is protected by the adequate content warnings.
• Pornography (any media that represents or suggests a sexual act) is restricted to 18+ accounts that explicitly state it in their bio, and it has to be posted in followers-only. This is to protect minors and prevent them from seeing pornographic material, in application of article 227-24 of the French Code Pénal.
• 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.
• Use of bots on this instance is submitted to admin authorization.

Unacceptable behavior

• Do not make oppressive statements (racist, xenophobic, fatphobic, ableist, queerphobic, sexist, antisemitic, etc.), use abusive slurs or spread hate speech.
• Do not engage in harassment of any kind.
• Pedopornography (sexual depictions of minors) is forbidden, in application of article 227-23 of the French Code Pénal.
• Do not publish private conversations without the explicit consent of all parties involved, except to the moderation team if you need to report them.
• Do not crosspost (from another social network) on the public timelines.
• Do not create any sort of corporate account for advertising purposes.
• Do not follow accounts using a follow bot.

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

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.

Fandom Garden is run by @gardener, @ikol and @ariel. You can support the instance by helping with the server costs on Liberapay.

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 custom 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.

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.

Suspended servers

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