A delightful and innocuous Mastodon community

Exquisite.social

A delightful and innocuous Mastodon community.

Generic themed instance (with a slight focus on technology, privacy and *BSD), we are here to play and make friends in a supportive atmosphere.

You are invited to apply for an account, as long as you can find yourself in our rules and abide by them.

More into video rather than microblogging? You might want to consider using Exquisite.tube. Or more into photos? Checkout Exquisite.pics.

Our stance on Big Tech

We firmly believe that Big Tech is a threat to the Fediverse and that all appropriate measures should be taken. These Big Tech platforms lack moderation, are hostile towards minorities and their dildo-rocket-launching CEOs have shown a complete disregard of respect towards others.

We currently have suspended:

• Bluesky
• Flipboard
• Meta (Threads and the likes)
• Tumblr

We will not unblock these platforms. Furthermore, this list is not definitive, as we might add other Big Tech platforms.

Our stack

Exquisite.social is powered by Mastodon Glitch Edition. It runs on an OpenBSD server, straight out of DC1, Amsterdam. There isn't any cloud involved - because of a fear of heights.

Credits

• The Flan emoji set is created by pamela@bsd.network, originally for bsd.network, and used with permission.
• The Miffy emoji set is created by Justin. Miffy is originally created by Dick Bruna.

Donations

We do accept donations, at the moment only through bunq. A better setup is in the works.

1. Be respectful, friendly and supportive towards others and different opinions. Act in good faith and refrain from malice.
2. Be your lovely and genuine self. Impersonation is not allowed. Accounts representing a company, group or project are only allowed after written staff agreement. Open-source (and especially *BSD related) projects are likely to be accepted - but are required the same written permission.
3. You are encouraged to caption media (images, audio and video) with alt-text.
4. Sharing personal information is allowed, as long as it is your info. Posting info of others, including public figures, is not allowed.
5. Please use CW's generiously., especially for possiblly controversial content.
6. Respect the boundaries of others, both explicit and implicit.
7. Strictly forbidden: hatespeech, discrimination, harassment, spamming, dogpiling, stalking, facism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, doxxing, harmful content and violence. Violating this rule will get you permanently banned (and possibly yeeted into outer space).
8. You and you alone are responsible for your account. Exquisite takes the security of our community at large serously. We invite our members to pick strong and unique passwords and to enable two-factor authentication on their account.

1. episcodon.net: suspension