These are set and enforced by the counterforce.social moderators.
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Don't post content that is flatly racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, misogynistic, or otherwise bigoted.
This de-facto includes any symbols, slogans, memes/jokes, or vapid talking points of the reactionary far right or authoritarian regimes. Don't be an edge-lord either.
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Don't use your account to harass or troll other users on counteforce.social
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Don't use your account to harass or troll other users on other instances
When interacting with users out in the broader Fediverse, you represent counterforce.social to some extent (it shows up at the end of your username, after all!). So avoid trolling or harassing other users, even if they are on other instances. This can lead to other instances blanket blocking counterforce.social (which is usually bad). If you pick fights with bad people, they can also follow you back to counterforce.social and harass other users here - if you want to pick fights on Mastodon, even with bad people, consider launching those attacks from your own instance and not from here!
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Don't use your account to harass or troll regular people in general
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Become familiar with the privacy and account moderation settings on Mastodon and use them
Every post on Mastodon has its own individual privacy setting that you set when you make the post. You also have many ways to deal with unwanted content/users. You can filter posts by tag or keywords, mute or block users, block an entire instance, and report problems to moderators.
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Don't post any illegal content, or talk about illegal acts, or otherwise post anything that could cause legal trouble for the server (where your images and posts live)
It's a stupid idea to do that here for your own safety, but also don't bring the heat to our instance. Go smoke down the block.
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Use Content Warnings for the following types of content: nudity, gore, drug use/paraphernalia, depictions or detailed descriptions of sex acts, mentions or depictions of suicide/self-harm, abuse, rape, or sexual assault
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Try to use image descriptions (alt text)
Mastodon allows the easy appending of image descriptions to any image being posted. This is more of a strong suggestion than a firm guideline - but consider writing an image description every time you post an image. Image descriptions are very helpful to anyone who uses a screen reader, and offer many other benefits to a lot of users. It's a bit of a polite social norm here - a lot of users will not boost your posts if you do not include an image description. And it's easy and fun once you get used to it!