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. Don't be a d*ck, respect the others (no hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia) and fight in direct messages.
2. Please keep bad memes or any political incorrect stuff out of the public timeline. Feel free to use the "unlisted", "private" or "direct" visibility options when talking between friends and with people who are okay about that.
3. NSFW is allowed if you put it behind both a #NSFW tag and add a content warning (the "CW" button below the message text box). Loli/shota (sexualized minors even if drawn), gore and rape is not allowed.
4. As stated in our ToS you must be 16 of age or more to use this instance.
5. Don't make parody accounts or try to impersonate someone or a group.
6. Accounts for for-profit companies or for advertising will be suspended. If you truly want to participate in the Fediverse, please contact the admin before joining.
7. Please do not use a public anonymizer email service (like temporary boxes or forwarders). You will be asked to change your email under a time limit or will be suspended without notice.
8. Respect the Swiss' (owner's country) and Germany's (server location) law.

In case of non-respect of those rules, use the report link (in the post menu) or contact @kdy.
We will never look at your private messages but they will show up in our dashboard if someone sends us a report of said posts.

Bot rules

Here's additional rules for bot accounts:

1. If the bot posts a lot (like RSS bots with 10+ posts per day), they should not post in the public timeline.
2. They should not randomly follow users and should not mention people unless the bot was explicitly solicited.
3. No NSFW at all.

Crossposting rules

Here's additional rules for the usage of a crossposter:

1. Retweets shouldn't be posted in the public timeline. Use a more private privacy rule (like "unlisted" or "private"). Regular tweets and quotes-tweets are not limited. Note that you can use CWs on Twitter, start the tweet with "CW: [subject]".
2. If all you do is shitposting and it gets into the public timelines, you will get silenced, requiring people to follow you to see yours posts. Set a more private privacy rule like said above.

Attributions

This instance uses Blobhaj by Heatherhorns, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This instance uses Mutant Standard emoji, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This instance also uses Robomoji, a modified subset of the Mutant Standard emoji, which are also provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Space Core image by Terton

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Code modifications

We've made some changes to the Mastodon code and styles to personalize this instance.
Our code is available on GitHub at im-in-space/mastodon.
The main stylesheet was made by @dia@aleph.land and is called Flat, Dark and Colourful! (Blue and Orange variant).

Instance updates

We regularly update Mastodon by merging the glitch-soc's main branch into our code.
During the update, the instance will be unavailable from 1 to 5 minutes to apply changes, unless it's a major update.

We write about our updates on our blog, changelog.im-in.space.

Server info

This server is hosted in Germany at Hetzner.
Intel Core i7-3770 (4C/8T 3.4GHz), 2x8Go DDR3 RAM, 2×3TB HDD, 1×480GB SSD).
IPv4: 5.9.120.158
IPv6: 2a01:4f8:162:70d2::2
Tor: pugvnub3iu36gzqcuzhxlrft52xyereovu7ypfn2bzrj44o3clf6zvyd.onion


E cryptcheck.fr / A+ tls.imirhil.fr / A+ SSL Labs / A+ Mozilla Observatory (2022-09-13)

We do daily backups. (script)

How long until this instance shuts down?

Except if I suddenly don't have any money to run this, this instance will be running until the domain expires.
For now, it's until April 2023 but we can renew it before we get there. ;)
In the event I want/need to stop this service, I will do my best to announce it 3 months before pulling the plug.

How's this instance funded?

Almost all of the costs is covered by the main administrator (Kody) who has a daily job.

It is possible to make donations to help us keep this service (and indirectly whatever Kody runs too) online.
You can use Kody's Ko-Fi and pay with PayPal or Card.
While not preferred, BTC donations are an option: 1aMndrW57zvJZFfWgjXTrZBb12rAvV398

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:

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:

Suspended servers

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