Queer Party is a queer-oriented Mastodon instance which generally aligns itself with the policies and goals of other instances such as mastodon.social, awoo.space and icosahedron.website, aiming as much as possible to be a safe space for its users. The rules pretty much boil down to "be good to each other", but a few rules I'd like to explicitly list out are as follows:
- Any content or postings which may be illegal under German or Scottish law are not permitted.
- Any content or postings containing Nazi symbolism, ideology and the promotion thereof, are strictly forbidden and seriously uncool.
- Racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and any other discriminatory conduct which attacks any individual or group of individuals based on what they are or what they believe in, is strictly forbidden and also seriously uncool.
- Any conduct which abuses this Mastodon instance, or which causes harm to other Mastodon instances, and/or the users thereof, is strictly forbidden and seriously uncool.
- While essentially all posts not violating the above are welcome on this instance, you are asked to be considerate and respectful of others - for example, tagging a post about a controversial subject or a commonly-held phobia using content warnings.
- Basic parts of your user profile, such as username/display name, profile picture and banner, must not be explicit in nature.
- Explicit/NSFW content is allowed, but must be appropriately tagged using the sensitive media and content warning tags.
Tips are appreciated! You can throw spare change my way by visiting my tip-jar!
This is not Twitter. Reporting posts that make you feel uncomfortable, or that you feel should be brought to our attention, is highly encouraged. Your reports will not be ignored, and will be dealt with (usually) within a few days. Due to timezone differences or just the fact that I have a full-time job, it may take more than a week, but you will always hear back about your report, and it won't be closed until you're happy with the resolution for the report. If your report involves a user or post on another instance, you have the choice of sharing your report with the administration of that instance as well, but the report will always be sent to us. Please include in the report whether you chose to send the report to the other instance, though.
No moderation actions are automatic whatsoever. Nothing happens without human review, and I try to do my utmost to do right by the users on this instance.
For anything that isn't covered by reporting things in Mastodon, or if you have any questions, concerns or other thoughts, please either direct-message @Maffsie@queer.party, or email the queries address posted above - this goes directly to my inbox.
A status page for this Mastodon instance is available here, with a secondary (older) status page here.
This instance uses Mutant Standard emoji made by Dzuk, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Transparency is important. Where administrative decisions have been made that impacts the userbase of queer.party, those decisions will be detailed on this page. This currently takes the form of two tables detailing domains blocked from federation, and from user registrations. No other administrative decisions or actions have been made at present.
Our federation policy is open-first, however in cases where an instance has been identified as either being indifferent to, permissive of, or as actively encouraging abusive conduct to this or other instances, that instance's domain will be blocked from federation. The block is typically a suspension, such that no interaction between queer.party and the offending instance can take place, however in cases where there is a lesser risk (eg., an instance that is indifferent to abusive conduct but is not known for being a source of abusive conduct), the block is typically a silence block, such that individual users can still interact with each other, but they must be following each other, and posts do not appear in the federated timeline.
Exceptions to the above are rare, but do happen. Currently, a blanket federation ban is in place for all Gab Social and Soapbox instances, for what should be obvious reasons. Where a specific instance has been blocked, it will be listed on the Unavailable Content list.
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 |
|---|---|
| baraag.net | |
| gs.kawa-kun.com | |
| pawoo.net | |
| rubber.social | |
| sinblr.com | |
| activism.openworlds.info | Questionable public posts with little to no effort shown to prevent spam and misinformation |
| anime.website | Instance federation policy is questionable, and ToS document specifically directs users to a "curated list" of instances which they recommend, all of the listed instances are freezepeach havens which have long been blocked on queer.party. The directed page also contains a "dishonourable mentions" list which decries instances which "defederate arbitrarily", in which queer.party is listed. |
| babymetal.party | |
| bsd.moe | |
| gameliberty.club | |
| gay.nsfw.onl | |
| gs.smuglo.li | |
| humblr.social | |
| koyu.space | No openly-available moderation policy other than what's listed in the sidebar, administrators are openly against speaking out about systemic racism |
| lainternet.online | Disturbing content on public timeline; does not have a policy of requiring CWs. |
| pl.smuglo.li | |
| pridelands.io | |
| social.homunyan.com | |
| stereophonic.space | Instance does not require tags on NSFW content |
| switter.at | |
| toot.zone | |
| ap.uwu.st | |
| dingdash.com | Instance appears not to have any published ToS, AUP or moderation policy, runs a modified version of Mastodon 2.9.2 without source being made available (in contravention of the Mastodon software license), and has had several reports made regarding its users' conduct toward others on the fediverse. |
| paypig.org | Limited to no actual ToS; generic AUP bundled with Mastodon, no administrator account activity, heavily outdated installation; timeline is full of edgelords |
| pl.skyn3t.in | Instance has no published ToS or AUP, has no clear moderation, and appears to be against defederating known bad instances (eg. Gab). |
| pleroma.rareome.ga | |
| preteengirls.biz | |
| qoto.org | |
| uwu.st | |
| witches.live | Administration has behaved incredibly poorly towards minorities. Sources: https://rage.love/@popstar/104366294586094913 https://hellsite.site/@CornishRepublicanArmy/104366250886174868 |
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 |
|---|---|
| busshi.moe | Instance federation policy is questionable, and ToS document specifically directs users to a "curated list" of instances which they recommend, all of the listed instances are freezepeach havens which have long been blocked on queer.party. The directed page also contains a "dishonourable mentions" list which decries instances which "defederate arbitrarily", in which queer.party is listed. |
| my.dirtyhobby.xyz | Instance allows or does not moderate NSFW user profiles (including NSFW banners and avatars), and has no published terms of service. |
| social.beepboop.ga | No published ToS/AUP or moderation policy |
| theres.life | Suspension lowered to instance silenced following positive changes to moderation policy; this will be reviewed in around a month to determine whether the silence should remain. |
| activism.openworlds.info | Questionable public posts with little to no effort shown to prevent spam and misinformation |
| anime.website | Instance federation policy is questionable, and ToS document specifically directs users to a "curated list" of instances which they recommend, all of the listed instances are freezepeach havens which have long been blocked on queer.party. The directed page also contains a "dishonourable mentions" list which decries instances which "defederate arbitrarily", in which queer.party is listed. |
| babymetal.party | |
| bsd.moe | |
| gameliberty.club | |
| gay.nsfw.onl | |
| gs.smuglo.li | |
| humblr.social | |
| koyu.space | No openly-available moderation policy other than what's listed in the sidebar, administrators are openly against speaking out about systemic racism |
| lainternet.online | Disturbing content on public timeline; does not have a policy of requiring CWs. |
| pl.smuglo.li | |
| pridelands.io | |
| social.homunyan.com | |
| stereophonic.space | Instance does not require tags on NSFW content |
| switter.at | |
| toot.zone |
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 |
|---|---|
| bodybuilding.im | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| bofa.lol | |
| civiq.social | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| crypto-group-buy.com | Spam, possibly automated, definitely no worthwhile content. |
| develop.gab.com | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| djitter.com | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| exited.eu | |
| explosion.party | COVID-19 denialism, racism, transphobia, federates with some of the worst instances online, no published moderation policy of terms of service. |
| fourthestate.social | Gab instance blocked by policy |
| freefedifollowers.ga | Protocol-level abuse and spam |
| freespeechextremist.com | |
| freezepeach.xyz | |
| frennet.link | No published AUP/ToS, freeze peach instance. |
| gab.ai | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| gab.com | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| gab.polaris-1.work | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| gab.protohype.net | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| gab.sleeck.eu | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| gabfed.com | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| gasthe.lgbt | |
| gleasonator.com | Gab instance blocked by policy. |
| glindr.org | Known hateful admin |
| hatthieves.es | "Follow-bots", abuse of the ActivityPub protocols |
| jaeger.website | "Free Speech" instance, absolutely no moderation policy beyond "nothing illegal" and "tag nsfw". Homophobic abuse received by the administrator. |
| kag.social | Freeze Peach instance blocked by policy |
| kazvam.com | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| kiwifarms.cc | ToS and general user safety concerns |
| kiwifarms.is | ToS and general user safety concerns |
| kiwifarms.net | ToS and general user safety concerns |
| lain.sh | Hosted on a managed service provided by another defederated instance ("FSE"), no published ToS or administration/moderation policy, administrator is an edgelord |
| lets.saynoto.lgbt | |
| ligma.pro | No published AUP/ToS, proudly "edgy". |
| mastodon.0-z-0.com | |
| mastodon.delurk.com | |
| mastodon.desync.net | |
| mastodon.host | |
| nazi.social | This instance’s reason for suspension should be plainly obvious by its domain name. |
| nazrin.moe | User safety concerns |
| neckbeard.xyz | |
| neenster.org | Gab/Soapbox instance blocked by policy |
| net4sw.com | Spammy instance |
| newjack.city | |
| nnia.space | On the surface this may seem like an instance we would never defederate, "Non-Normative Identities Alliance", however the term itself originates from the MAP ("Minor-Attracted Person") community on twitter. Those using the terms typically seek to normalise attractions such as zoophilia and paedophilia, and multiple users of this instance explicitly identify as paedophiles. |
| noagendasocial.com | |
| notmastodon.xyz | |
| pl.765racing.com | |
| pl.kys.moe | |
| pleroma.kiwifarms.net | ToS and general user safety concerns |
| pleroma.miria.love | (Ostensibly) single-user instance; administrator and the one other user on the instance are both self-professed paedophiles. |
| pleroma.soykaf.com | No published ToS, AUP or moderation policy. |
| pleroma.us | No published moderation policy, administrator is roleplaying as a shitty orange baby and is a fascist. |
| poa.st | |
| posting.lolicon.rocks | The domain-name alone says it all. |
| rage.lol | Freeze peach instance, federates with known bad instances, administrator is a fascist |
| rainbowdash.net | |
| raki.social | |
| rightmastodon.com | |
| sealion.club | |
| shitposter.club | |
| social.heldscal.la | |
| social.xeltica.work | Abuse of Fediverse protocols for the purpose of spam |
| speakfree.world | "Free Speech" instance (aka; "I have the right to say nasty stuff and expect no consequences"). Moderation policy is not friendly. |
| spinster.xyz | Gab Social instance blocked by policy |
| tooter.fr | |
| varishangout.net | Appears to be a proto-kiwifarms-esque community |
| wurm.host | Administrator is directly abusive to others. No published moderation policy or Terms of Service. |
| yggdrasil.social | Instance is operated by a self-proclaimed TERF and specifically forbids all LGBTQ+ content, and talks negatively of LGBTQ+ folk in its terms of service. Instance ToS also specifically forbids "miscegnation". The first time I've ever been offended by a terms of service. |
| ap.uwu.st | |
| dingdash.com | Instance appears not to have any published ToS, AUP or moderation policy, runs a modified version of Mastodon 2.9.2 without source being made available (in contravention of the Mastodon software license), and has had several reports made regarding its users' conduct toward others on the fediverse. |
| paypig.org | Limited to no actual ToS; generic AUP bundled with Mastodon, no administrator account activity, heavily outdated installation; timeline is full of edgelords |
| pl.skyn3t.in | Instance has no published ToS or AUP, has no clear moderation, and appears to be against defederating known bad instances (eg. Gab). |
| pleroma.rareome.ga | |
| preteengirls.biz | |
| qoto.org | |
| uwu.st | |
| witches.live | Administration has behaved incredibly poorly towards minorities. Sources: https://rage.love/@popstar/104366294586094913 https://hellsite.site/@CornishRepublicanArmy/104366250886174868 |