Code of Conduct / Community Guidelines

This instance is founded on the premise of “kindfulness”.

kindfulness (/ˈkīn(d) f(ə)l nəs/)

• the quality of being mindful and kind,
• being conscious and aware of the importance of kindness,

AND

• using kindness or kind acts as a way to care for yourself and others

synonyms: empathetic, considerate

see also: radical kindness

This is a term our admin coined at some point in late 2018, and finds it as a good measuring tool for interactions with folks online. With that, please know that our Code of Conduct is written with this in mind.

In addition: This instance is (obviously) Stardew Valley themed, but this does not mean that the only content you are allowed to post here is Stardew Valley related content!

You may use this instance as your main/personal/private/whatever instance. It is a “general” instance, just with a cute theme. This is also does not mean that you are disallowed from having a purely Stardew Valley account on this instance. You may do as you wish, as long as it follows our Code of Conduct.

Posting Etiquette

Part of kindfulness is consent to interactions. Some folks may not want to see certain content, and thus being mindful of this as well as kind to others we ask that you use the Content Warning (CW) function and/or the eyeball function to hide photos for the following topics:

• Sexually explicit content (nudity, kink talk, etc.)
  • Examples of CW subject:
    • Lewd, nudity
    • Kink, BDSM
    • Photos of me in lingerie
    • Sexual frustration, masturbation
• Politics / news
  • Examples of CW subject:
    • USPol, police brutality
    • UKPol, Brexit
    • USPol, trump
    • Political theory

• Violence, either implied of explicit (images of guns/weapons, images with blood, written post about injuries, etc.)
• Drugs or alcohol
• Food, dieting, or weight discussion
• Mental health issues (especially those that could trigger others: suicide, self-harm, disordered eating, etc.)
  • Examples of CW subject:
    • Mental health talk, anxiety
    • Mental health, suicidal ideation
    • Mental health questions, therapy
    • Mental health medications, side effects, negative
• Spoilers to television shows or movies
• Flashing images or videos
• Posts that may qualify as “body horror”
• Jump scares or other scare tactics
• Cross-posts from other social media sites (mainly Twitter)
  • Example CW subjects:
    • Twitter cross-post (user / OP of tweet)
  • While cross-posting is not outrightly banned, if it becomes your main or only form of posting on the instance, you will be asked to move to another instance
• Medical/Physical health (especially those others may find triggering: cancer, hospice, vomit, other bodily fluids, etc.)
  • Abortion and miscarriages are included under this
• Sexual violence
  • Examples of CW subject:
    • Rape, sexual assault, Title IX (USPol)
    • Childhood sexual abuse (CSA)
    • Stalking, abusive relationship
    • Abusive relationship (not me), asking for help
• Animal abuse/cruelty
• Death
• Hate topics (heterosexism/homophobia, racism, transmisogyny and transphobia, etc.)
• “Meta” discussions of issues on the fediverse
  • Examples of CW subject:
    • Meta (admin/moderation)
    • Meta (pixelfed)
    • Meta (blocking)
• Emoji spam or ASCII posts
  • This includes spelling things out with emoji letters
• If the post is a joke, or a “shitpost” please say so!

We find it exceptionally important to be specific, but not detailed, in our CW subjects. This takes practice, and will never be a perfect science as we do not always know what will trigger others. That is okay! It is okay to make mistakes, and it is not something that will cause a ban from our instance unless it becomes a larger issue. Many topics may overlap, so please just try your best.

It is not required to use the format or even specific examples mentioned for posts of that subject matter, they are only there as a guide for those who may be unfamiliar with the CW system, and as a guide for specificity for those who are used to it but are new to this instance.

Abbreviations/Short Cuts in CW Subjects

If you like to use abbreviations, please type out the full word/phrase in the first toot and put the abbreviations next to it (i.e. “childhood sexual abuse (CSA)”, “Austrailian Politics (AUSPol)”, “suicidal ideation (sui), negative (-/neg)”, etc.) and then continue to use the abbreviation in your subject as you thread your discussion/posts.

Abbreviations are tricky and not always recognizable to users, especially new ones. Some folks on the fediverse have pinned a toot of their commonly used abbreviations, so feel free to use this method as well!

Please do not purposefully misspell words or censor words (l*ke th*s) as it bypasses the filter system in place, causing posts with words originally filtered out to sneak through.

We also ask that if others come to you to request a CW, you respond kindly and do your best to remember them—however if they are not listed specifically here, the admin is not responsible for enforcing this request. If strong enough desire is shown by a particular user or group of users, and the admin agrees, the topic may be added here in the future.

We highly encourage the use of filters for triggers that may be specific to you, or less common to the general public as it will help protect you from having to interact with or even see posts surrounding that word/topic/person.

When in doubt, use the CW and/or hide your images!

Accessibility

With that, we would like to add that we encourage all users to do their best with image descriptions! This can be done via that instance UI on the image, or within the text of the post itself. This is not required to be on the instance, and is also not something that would result in a ban, but please push yourself to remember to caption/describe your images (including: memes, selfies, screen captures of text, etc.). Your description does not have to be perfect or of exceptional detail and length. We only ask that you try your best. If you’re ever unsure about what to say in an image caption, just ask!

We also encourage capitalization of hashtags #LikeThis, rather than #likethis (in addition to the emoji spam/ASCII content rule) so that screen readers can properly read hashtags.

Be kind and mindful in hopes to make our instance and the fediverse a more accessible place.

Self-Promotion

An exception to the idea of “when in doubt, use a CW” would be self-promotion or asking for help. Please do not feel obligated to CW these posts. You should never feel bad about earning money through skills you have, or asking for help when you need it!

However, it may become an issue if that is the only kind of post you seem to be making, and/or you are continuously making the same post super often (spamming).

Serious Offenses

The following content is prohibited on Stardew.City and will result in an immediate removal of content, and likely a removal of your account:

• Sexual depictions of children / pedophilia
  • A minor (or child) is someone below the age of eighteen (18) years old
  • This includes but is not limited to:
    • Drawings, photographs, videos, or writing of children engaging in sexual activity (including fictional characters)
    • Aforementioned with “aged-up” fictional child characters
    • Characters that are of age, but have an intentional child-like appearance engaging in sexual activity
    • Engaging in sexual conversations with children as an adult
      • This is not to say that if a minor has questions, you as an adult may not offer help/answers. Be respectful and understanding of boundaries laid by minors, as well as your responsibilities as an adult to not encourage or engage in sexual relationships with minors.
• Holocaust denial
• Nazi imagery, or other promotion of fascism/radical nationalism
  • Yes, even “ironically”
• Promoting the oppression or discrimination against any person or groups based on race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, gender (identity or expression), sexuality/sexual orientation, disability, class, profession, body size or personal appearance, age, or religion.
• Harassment, stalking, or threats/intimidation of other users, or encouraging others to do so
  • This includes but is not limited to:
    • Continuously trying to engage a user who has requested to end interaction(s)
    • Encouraging or inciting other users to (re)engage with another user after said user requested to end interaction(s)
    • Screen capturing or quoting a user without their express permission
    • Collecting or posting a user’s private or personal information or data without express permission
      • This includes but is not limited to:
        • Addresses associated with a user
        • A name they previously had or were associated with
        • Contact information such as a phone number or email address
        • Any of the aforementioned in relation to a partner or family member of a user
• Intentionally spreading libel, slander, or other disinformation
  • Certain websites that tend to target others, or right-wing websites, will not count as “proof” to the admin if concerns about certain folks arise
• Plagiarism, or art theft (posting other’s work without citation or credit, or claiming it as your own)
• Crypto mining operations
• Unapproved bots
  • Contact your admin for approval!
  •  Untagged:
    • Sexually explicit content
    • Gore or graphic violence

These rules apply to Stardew.City or any affiliated location (such as an offline meet up, or if you promote the instance elsewhere/are representing the instance elsewhere on the web or offline).

Reports will be reviewed and decisions will be made as soon as possible. Admins and moderators must maintain confidentiality with the identity of the reporter of the incident.

The admin reserves the right to delete a user’s content or revoke access to Stardew.City at any time or for any reason.

Any changes to the COC will be publicly posted about for users to read the changes.

Suspensions and Silences

Our list of blocked/suspended and muted/silenced instances is maintained solely by our moderation team. We follow already maintained block lists of other instances such as: kitty.town, dzuk’s blockchain list on github, and the posts of other admin’s our team trusts.

Users are absolutely encouraged to contact the admin to request a block, and/or report the instance through the moderation tools. Reporting is very useful, as it allows us to keep better track and write notes to remember what happened/why we blocked someone via the Mastodon interface rather than just keeping it in an Excel Spreadsheet (which we do also).

If users on an instance repeatedly engage in behaviors against our own COC, without appropriate reactions from the moderation team, and/or if the admin or mods of an instance engage in behaviors against our COC, the entire instance will be suspended rather than just the offending users.

Unavailable content

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.

Media files from these servers will not be processed or stored, and and no thumbnails will be displayed, requiring manual click-through to the original file:

Server	Reason
humblr.social	untagged nudes
piss.restaurant	user report: shit posts, irony
social.illegalpornography.com	untagged nudes
tavern.cafe	user report: shit posts, irony
the.scream.zone	user report: anti-kin
twitter.activitypub.actor
hellsite.site
knzk.me	harassment
radical.town	targeted harassment

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
bikeshed.party	too loud on FTL, not personal
birdsite.link
botsin.space	bots
efdn.club
lesbiab.space
mamot.fr
mirrored.social	mirrored twitter accounts / bots
switter.at	silenced because we are a small instance and they are large/would take over the federated timeline
humblr.social	untagged nudes
piss.restaurant	user report: shit posts, irony
social.illegalpornography.com	untagged nudes
tavern.cafe	user report: shit posts, irony
the.scream.zone	user report: anti-kin
twitter.activitypub.actor

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

Server	Reason
101010.pl	cryptomining, https://functional.cafe/@phoe/100544940043503194
2.distsn.org	spam
2hu.club
2ndamendment.social	free speech / alt right
accela.online
afterlife.masto.host
albin.social	corporate goals, harvesting data, no COC/rules
animalliberation.social	https://social.diskseven.com/@Jo/102915609622352361
animeisgay.com	free speech / alt right
anime.website
anitwitter.com	free speech / alt right
anitwitter.moe
anticapitalist.party	harassment
ap.uwu.st
aria.company	free speech / alt right
assortedflotsam.com	against content warnings/trigger warnings (https://assortedflotsam.com/about/more)
b.9chan.lol	harassment
baraag.net	loli
beehub.org	naizs
bitcoinadon.social	crypto
bitcoinhackers.org	crypto
blob.cat
bodybuilding.im	gab
boony.space	free speech / alt right
boopsnoot.gq	harassment
bophadees.witches.live	harassment
bsd.moe	harassment
cantos.social	free speech / alt right
capitalism.party	free speech / alt right
carnal-grabhub.protohype.net	gab
catgirl.life
cawfee.club	nazis (https://radical.town/@larrydavis/102347065715623593)
civiq.social	gab
cliterati.club	many spinster folks (gab), terfs and free speech folks
cloutfla.re	racism, transphobia
cmpwn.com	racism, harassment
comm.network	free speech / alt right
community.halle-leaks.de
community.highlandarrow.com	free speech / alt right
containment.space
counter.social	free speech / alt right
cryptids.online	anti kin, harassment
cybre.space	harassment, racism
cyzed.com	gab
daffodil-11.org	free speech / alt right
decisiveliberty.news
dev.civiq.social	gab
develop.gab.com	gab
diaspsocial.com
dickshow.social
disarray.nof.st	free speech
djitter.com	"free speech"
donteatanimals.org	admin allows terfs
duckfriend.com
ediot.social	harassment
ennui.industries	harassment
eventideparlour.masto.host
exited.eu
explosion.party	free speech / alt right
fedi.absturztau.be
fedichive.tk
fedi.z0ne.moe	free speech / alt right
fed.wuhei.racing
feminism.lgbt	free speech / alt right
forum.decisiveliberty.news	free speech / alt right, nazis
forum.f-droid.org	free speech, not blocking gab
fosstodon.org	free speech / alt right (https://radical.town/@Blakely/102389292917320641)
fourthestate.social	https://mastodon.sleeping.town/@xenon/102980758375471813
framapiaf.org	harassment, nazi apologism, overall bad admin (https://framapiaf.org/@midgard/102067666791863623)
freefedifollowers.ga
freehold.earth
freeradical.zone
freespeechextremist.com	free speech / alt right
freespeech.firedragonstudios.com	free speech / alt right
freespeech.host	free speech / alt right
freevoice.space	free speech
freezepeach.xyz	free speech / alt right
functor.pro	nazis
gab.ai	gab
gabble.xyz	gab
gab.com	gab
gabfed.com	gab
gab.io	gab
gab.polaris-1.work	gab
gab.protohype.net	gab
gab.sleeck.eu	gab
gameliberty.club	nazi memes, free speech / alt right (https://gameliberty.club/users/matrix/statuses/101461838475153841), https://gameliberty.club/users/matrix/statuses/101461886859262957
gay.nsfw.onl	untagged nudes
gendercritical.club
gendercritical.space
gnusocial.ch
gnusocial.no	racism
goldandblack.xyz	free speech / alt right
gorf.club	free speech / alt right
greenlifeplus.net
gs.archae.me
gs.kawa-kun.com
gs.mon5t3r.info
gs.smuglo.li	free speech / alt right
gymnastodon.com
hacked.im
hackers.town	admin "proudly" works with FBI
hakui.club
hitchhiker.social	racism
hiveway.net
homura.space	harassment
honey.church	free speech / alt right
horsecr.app
ika.moe
ika.musume.fr
impeccable.social	gab, https://todon.nl/@isolategab/102736409146250922
inditoot.com
infosec.exchange
innerwebs.social
iscute.moe	free speech / alt right
jabb.in
jorts.horse	harassment
journalist.social	https://mastodon.sleeping.town/@xenon/102980758375471813
jpop.club	run by admin of another instance we block (hedgehoghunter.club)
juche.town
justicewarrior.social
karolat.press
kawaiistu.moe
kawen.space	harassment
kazvam.com	gab
kink.town	same admin as cloutfla.re, racism, transphobia
kiwifarms.cc	kiwifarms
kiwifarms.is	kiwifarms
kiwifarms.net	kiwifarms
kneegrows.top	free speech / alt right
kompost.cz	shitty admin, racism
koolkidsonly.club
kowai.youkai.town	loli
koyu.space	harassment
kpop.social	harassment
kyot.me
kys.moe
laevateinn.tk	racism
leftlibertarian.club	free speech / alt right
letsalllovela.in	free speech / alt right
lets.bemoe.online	pedophile defending, interacting with kiwifarms
lets.saynoto.lgbt
liberdon.com	free speech / alt right
libertarianism.club	free speech / alt right
librem.one	purism, free speech
librenet.co.za	free speech / alt right
libre.tube
libretube.org
libre.video	"dedicated to the principles of life, liberty, private property," "nor are we interested in censoring you for political or philosophical views"
ligma.pro
linuxrocks.online
liveview.cf	https://sleeping.town/@xenon/103019823052953301
loli.estate	loli
lolis.world
manx.social
masto.angristan.xyz
mastodon.ar.al
mastodonar.club
mastodon.binatang.nl
mastodon.cloud	corporate owned, harassment
mastodon.fail
mastodon.gamedev.place
mastodon.gougere.fr
mastodon.grin.hu
mastodon.host	cryptomining
mastodon.loliandstuff.moe	loli
mastodon.matemann.de
mastodon.mynameisivan.ru
mastodon.permaweb.io	free speech (https://mastodon.technology/@swedneck/102197987563387148)
mastodon.social	admin's continuous allowance of harassment from the instance, spam sign ups because they never close, and poorly moderated otherwise, and much much more
masto.quad.moe	free speech / alt right
masto.rootdc.xyz
masto.targaryen.house	free speech / alt right
matdn.jp
melalandia.tk	harassment
meow.social	antisemitism and free speech
minds.com	free speech / alt right
ministry.moonbutt.science
misskey.io	free speech / alt right
misskey.nl	free speech / alt right
misskey.xyz	free speech / alt right
mn.ms
mobile.co	free speech / alt right
moeplebs.online
monads.online
m.sl-network.fr	ignoring reports
mst3k.interlinked.me
mstdn.beer
mstdn.foxfam.club	free speech / alt right
mstdn.io	federated with gab
mstdn.jp	corporate owned
mu.zaitcev.nu
myporntv.com	untagged porn
mysocial.world	free speech / alt right
neckbeard.xyz	misogyny
neenster.org	gab
nerdica.net	free speech / alt right (https://nerdica.net/profile/evergreen)
nethole.us	free speech / alt right
networked.space	free speech / alt right
netzsphaere.xyz	free speech / alt right
newjack.city
niu.moe	free speech / alt right
noagenda.social	free speech / alt right
noagendasocial.com
nomoresha.me	free speech / alt right
nordenmedia.com
now.kibousoft.co.jp	corporate owned
npf.mlpol.net	free speech / alt right
nulled.red	free speech / alt right
nutt.church	admin harassment / predatory
oneway.masto.host
open.tube	free speech / alt right
ost.social	gab
p2px.me
panthermodern.net
patch.cx	free speech / alt right
pawoo.net	loli
peertube.sl-network.fr	ignoring reports
peertube.stephenson.cc
peervideos.com	nazis
pieville.net	white supremacy
pikachu.rocks	harassment
pixfed.com	free speech / alt right
pl.765racing.com	racism
pleasehug.me	free speech / alt right
pleroma.angristan.xyz	harassment
pleroma.cloud
pleroma.cucked.me	harassment
pleroma.cutie.space
pleroma.elizafox.space	harassment
pleroma.gnusocial.club
pleroma.kamp.site
pleroma.kiwifarms.net	kiwifarms
pleroma.miniwa.moe	free speech / alt right
pleroma.nethole.us
pleroma.rareome.ga	security fail
pleroma.site	admin continuously allows for and participates in harassment
pleroma.soykaf.com	free speech / alt right
pleroma.tempus.tk
pleroma.tuxcrafting.cf	free speech / alt right
pleroma.weirdart.space
pleroma.yorha.club	harassment
pl.kys.moe	free speech / alt right
pl.omaera.org
pl.pube.tk	free speech / alt right
pl.shiptoaster.xyz
pl.smuglo.li	loli, harassment
pl.wowana.me	racism
plz.nobulli.me
porntoot.com	untagged porn
preteengirls.biz	porn
pridelands.io	free speech / alt right
privacy.fyi
qoto.org	free speech / alt right
quey.org	free speech / alt right
quitter.pw	white supremacy allowed as long as it's not "illegal"
quitter.se
raconteur.ink	user report: alt instance of a harasser
rainbowdash.net	free speech / alt right
raki.social
rapefeminists.network	free speech / alt right
rcsocial.net	free speech / alt right, gab support
redliberal.club	free speech / alt right
redliberal.com
rightmastodon.com	nazis
robo.super-niche.club	harassment
sapphos.be	no admin
satania.site
satania.space
sealion.club	free speech / alt right
shelter.moe	free speech / alt right
shigusegubu.club	free speech / alt right
shitasstits.life	free speech / alt right
shitpost.beep.computer	harassment
shitposter.club	free speech, bigotry, https://shitposter.club/notice/14452589
shpposter.club	free speech / alt right, antisemitism
sinblr.com	gab
skaia.space
skippers-bin.com
s.knusper-land.de	racism
snabeltann.no	free speech / alt right
social.allthefallen.ninja
social.au2pb.net	free speech / alt right
social.beeboop.ga
social.beepboop.ga	free speech / alt right
social.buffalomesh.net
social.culturewar.us	white supremacy
social.dsmouse.net	harassment
social.foxfam.club	free speech / alt right
social.guizzyordi.info	free speech / alt right
social.hatthieves.es	spam
social.headsca.la	free speech / alt right
social.headscal.la
social.hidamari.blue	free speech / alt right
social.homunyan.com	loli
social.i2p.rocks	free speech / alt right
social.imirhil.fr
social.jesuislibre.net	free speech / alt right
social.ksite.de
social.librem.one	allows hate speech on instance (https://social.libre.fi/notice/9iZw5AqQ5qKjgFWm5Q)
social.louisoft01.moe	free speech / alt right
social.lucci.xyz	free speech / alt right
socially.whimsic.al	targeted harassment, abuse
social.miwilc.com
socialnetwork.ninja	admin is a blue lives matter cop
social.nofftopia.com	free speech / alt right
social.privacytools.io
social.pueseso.club
social.pur.ism	free speech / alt right, corporate instance
social.quodverum.com	alt right
social.raptorengineering.io
social.sakamoto.gq	free speech / alt right
social.shadowkat.net	admin is ableist, edgelord stuff
social.stupid.team
social.sunshinegardens.org	harassment
social.super-niche.club	harassment
social.svallee.fr
social.targaryen.house	harassment
social.tchncs.de	harassment
social.troll.academy	free speech / alt right
social.ufeff.club	free speech / alt right
social.undernet.uy
social.wiuwiu.de
social.wuiwui.de	free speech / alt right
social.xeltica.work
society.oftrolls.com	harassment
socnet.supes.com	free speech / alt right
soc.uwu.st
spacetime.social	free speech / alt right
speakfree.world	free speech
spinster.dev	gab, terfs
spinster.xyz	terfs, gab
stealingyour.info	data mining / inflammatory url
stereophonic.space	racism, ableism, bigotry
stupid.industries
sunbeam.city	racism, harassment
switter.co
take.iteasy.club	free speech / alt right, run by admin of sealion.club and freezepeach.xyz
targaryen.house	free speech / alt right
t.cascadians.net
terrafirma.space	free speech / alt right
testing.pleroma.lol	bigotry
thechad.zone	free speech / alt right
the.hedgehoghunter.club	harassment, free speech, edge lord stuff
theres.life
the-wired.club
toot.exchange
toot.love	free speech / alt right
toot.onl	racism
toot.site	pepe emojis, free speech / alt right, harassment
tootsocial.com
toot.world
toot.zone
touhey.org	free speech / alt right
trash.social
tri.cash	crypto
twitterchan.net
unitum.nl
unsafe.space	free speech / alt right
usan.us	thinks Gab has "improved the fediverse"
uwu.st
vampire.estate	loli
vault.mle.party
verge.info.tm	free speech / alt right
videobit.cc	peertube, porn
video.halle-leaks.de
videoshare.cc	untagged porn
videos.mikedilger.com
vipgirlfriend.xxx	spam, untagged nudes
voice.masto.host
voluntaryism.club	free speech / alt right
vvitches.live
waifuappreciation.club	nazis
waifu.social	free speech / alt right
warc.space
weeaboo.space	loli
weeb.academy
weedis.life
welovela.in	free speech / alt right
whomst.dog	harassment
witches.live
wogan.im	free speech / alt right
womenarestupid.site	spam, harassment
woofer.alfter.us	free speech / alt right
wrongthink.net	free speech / alt right
wxw.moe
x0r.be	free speech / alt right
xkcd.com
xn--6r8h.tk	nazis
xn--lets-x96a.saynoto.lgbt
xoldie.com	recommending other instances we block, now deleted/gone
xy.ag
yang.social
yarr.io
yiff.rocks
yorishiro.space	facism
youkai.town
zerohack.xyz	free speech / alt right
hellsite.site
knzk.me	harassment
radical.town	targeted harassment