🌈 An inclusive place for your photos, silliness, and convos! 🌈

General Information 🌈

Greetings! We are so happy to have you here!

We are aiming to run an inclusive photography community in a wee corner of the fediverse! While we are photography focused, nothing is "off topic" here! We don't want to forget the person in "a person who takes photographs". (That's what our domain means!) Let your freak shine!

Don't forget we're on mad-cripple time here now, allowing time for ourselves (and yourselves!) to be our full self, rest, and still get things going and done but at a huemon-friendly pace.

Things to know

• photog.social is a separate and independent instance and is not affiliated with the Mastodon organization. We are not corporate-owned social media 🎊
• Announcements can be found via the built-in Announcements feature, as well as by following @ambassador@photog.social and @modmins@photog.social
• No ads, no algorithms, no trackers, and we'll never sell your data.
• You have the exclusive rights to your work and posts. Note however we cannot control what other servers do with your data nor guarantee scrapers will not access our site.
• We are firmly anti-genocide and anti-colonial. We have a zero-tolerance policy for bigotry and white supremacy.
• The rules are meant in good-faith and are not meant to cover every precise situation that may require our moderators to take action. Bad-faith interpretations and actions will not be tolerated.
• Violation of the first rule will get your account suspended without warning and earn you a #fediblock. Violation of the last rule will mean a warning and then a suspension of your account in at least one week. All other rules: if we choose to, we may delete the specific post(s) and will DM you from the moderator account. (If you block DMs from accounts you don't follow, please do follow that account once it exists!) Multiple violations will be tracked and may result in your account being limited, muted, or suspended.

Admin/Mod Accounts

• @ambassador: Primary admin, announcements geared towards the fediverse community at large, and where other admins can best get in contact with us via DMs
• @modmins: announcements geared towards the internal photog.social community, and where moderation related DMs will come from and where it is best to contact us with internal issues including moderation-related things

Support/Donations

If you're able, please support the photog.social Mastodon instance monentarily, feel free to choose an option below.

We appreciate it and 💖 the support!

• Patreon
• Liberapay
• PayPal: payments@photog.social

This covers administration, management, and day to day operations of the photog.social Mastodon Instance. This includes costs for hosting the server, domain renewals, and some financial reimbursement for the moderators running the instance.

Accessibility

Please alt text your media or hashtag them with alt4me or alt4you. Also do check those tags out and lend a hand to your fellow fedizens!

Avoid putting too many emojis in a single post, particularly putting more than three in a row. This is hell on screen readers.

Use PascalCase or camelCase for hashtags. This is helpful for screenreaders.

Approved Bots

• none active currently.

Unavailable Content and Instance Moderation

Some instances we have chosen to remove from our federated timeline. You can still follow accounts on these instances and if you follow a user on one of the instances that does not appear on our federated timeline, their posts will show in your personal timeline. These are mainly instances that tend to be busy and/or are known for overloading our federated timeline with posts.

Some instances we have chosen to block outright. Most of these instances are full of illegal content, hate speech, and more. We've also blocked instances that have run harassment campaigns against others in the past. You will NOT be able to interact with these instances from our instance.

1. No AI-generated content nor NFT-related content are allowed *AT ALL* on this instance.
2. Do not share information you know to be false or misleading. This includes anti-vax nonsense, Holocaust denial, and so on.
3. Public photos of people are generally acceptable. Do not post photos of folks that have asked you not to. People in a photo have the right to have it taken down on request.
4. Put sensitive content such as local politics, violence/blood, graphic nudity, racism, lewd content, and potentially upsetting or triggering topics under a Content Warning (CW).
5. No unapproved bots, corporate advertising, or spam.
6. No content that includes sexual depictions of minors (this includes loli), or content illegal in France.
7. You must be at least 18 years old to have an account here.
8. No harassment or white supremacy: that includes absolutely no anti-Blackness, colorism, transmisia, cisheterosexism, ableism, misogyny, fat hate, gender binarism, or other bigotries. No tone policing.

1. lediver.se: limitation
2. mastodon.openjw.com: suspension
3. mytter.jp: suspension