Rules

Be human, nice, respectful and constructive.

Don't be a pain in the ass and full of hate.

Please use the english language.

No Pseudoscience like Flat Earth theory, Antivaccine and so on.

No porn, piracy, spam, hate speech, brigading, gore, doxing, racism and any kind of discrimination.

Bots (including Twitter crossposting bots) must display the Bot tag on their profile, respect #nobots in bios (if following users), and make unlisted posts by default. Failure to do so will result in either being silenced or suspended.

Invitations

On August 15, 2019, we made the decision to go invite-only. This decision may be temporary, or it may be permanent. We'll see how it goes.

Any existing user can create and send invitations! Visit https://social.privacytools.io/invites to create an invite link. We highly encourage users to invite people they know or people that may be interested in joining our community.

If you're looking to join social.privacytools.io and don't know any existing users, that's fine too! Send an email to support@privacytools.io and maybe include a quick message about why you'd like to join this instance. We'd love to have you!

Why did this happen? Honestly, spam is one reason for sure. We want to cut down on the amount of automated registrations and we're hoping this helps. But another reason is just to keep this community small. Limiting registrations will help keep the quality of our conversations up. Not everything is about the user count!

Can I share invites publicly? Use your best judgement. If you want to send an invite to a group, forum, chat room, subreddit, etc. that's totally fine! We do ask that you either time-limit your invitation, or set a maximum number of uses for invitations you post publicly. There's options to do that on the invite creation page.

I don't want to wait for an invite. The beauty of Mastodon is federation: A user on one instance can interact with a user on another! There's many other great instances listed at joinmastodon.org, and you'll still be able to follow and message users on this instance, and any other instance!

Who to follow?

Here are some privacy related profiles accross the Mastodon Network.

Follow privacytools.io @privacytools@social.privacytools.io

Follow BurungHantu @BurungHantu@social.privacytools.io

Follow OpenNIC Project @opennic@triplebit.net

Follow Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io

Follow Mastodon @Mastodon@mastodon.social

Follow The Tor Project @torproject@mastodon.social

Follow Privacy International @privacyint@mastodon.xyz

Follow ProtonMail @protonmail@mastodon.social

Follow ProtonVPN @protonvpn@mastodon.social

Follow Tutanota @Tutanota@mastodon.social

Follow Nextcloud @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz

Follow Qwant.com @Qwant@social.privacytools.io

Follow LibreOffice @libreoffice@fosstodon.org

Follow Purism @purism@librem.one

Follow Matrix.org @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org

Follow PixelFed @pixelfed@mastodon.social

Follow Prismo @prismo@mastodon.social

Follow Funkwhale @funkwhale@mastodon.eliotberriot.com

Follow CryptPad @cryptpad@social.weho.st

Follow Disroot.org @disroot@social.weho.st

Follow YunoHost @yunohost@mastodon.social

Follow switching.social @switchingsocial@mastodon.at

Follow ThinkPrivacy.io (Dan Arel) @danarel@mastodon.technology

Follow infosec-handbook.eu @infosechandbook@chaos.social

Follow CCC @CCC@social.bau-ha.us

Follow FreedomBox @freedomboxfndn@mastodon.social

Follow Freedombone @freedombone@soc.freedombone.net

Follow Electronic Frontier Foundation (Unofficial) @eff@mastodon.social

Follow Tusky @Tusky@mastodon.social

Follow Keybase @keybase@mastodon.social

Follow Debian @debian@fosstodon.org

Follow Matomo (Piwik) @Matomo@mastodon.social

Follow Nitrokey @Nitrokey@chaos.social

Follow Yale Privacy Lab @privacylab@mastodon.social

Follow blacklight447 @blacklight447@social.privacytools.io

More? Check out Trunk

Moderated servers

Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with the Fediverse.

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:

Server Reason gameliberty.club abdl.link gab.com humblr.social neckbeard.xyz pl.smuglo.li porn-k.com sinblr.com

Silenced 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: