Social networking, back in your hands

Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 2.2M people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free.

Mastodon isn’t just a website, it is a federation—think Star Trek. Thousands of independent communities running Mastodon form a coherent network, where while every planet is different, being part of one is being part of the whole.

Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools to help protect yourself. Thanks to the network's spread out and independent nature there are more moderators who you can approach for personal help, and servers with strict codes of conduct.

Sharing your thoughts has never been more convenient

You have 500 characters. You can adjust the thumbnails of your pictures with focal points. You can use custom emojis, hide things behind spoiler warnings and choose who sees a given post. Messed it up? You can delete & redraft for quick corrections.

Mastodon for the individual

Without an incentive to sell you things, Mastodon allows you to consume content you enjoy uninterrupted. Your feed is chronological, ad-free and not controlled by algorithms—you decide what you want to see!

Staff

The server admin is @TonyStark. Our moderators are:

@MariaHill
@NatashaRomanoff
@SteveRogers

Code of Conduct

We are a United States-based liberal/progressive instance that promotes elections, activism, and voter participation, in particular for the Democratic party and left-leaning Independents. We encourage people to participate in government by petitioning to their elected officials as well as participating in events, marches, and protests. We provide information on how to do those things effectively and about candidates for office.

We share news related to those subjects. We also toot about personal interests like any other community in the Fediverse.

We are not an instance for anarchists as we find that it runs contrary to our values of a government that works for all people. Symbols and toots promoting anarchy will be removed from the community.

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of resistance.social; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:

1. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
   1. Excessive advertising
   2. Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
   3. Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
   4. Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
   5. GoFundMe pages and other fundraisers not fundraising for legitimate candidates for office against Republicans
   6. Disinformation or misinformation that would mislead voters or depress the vote
2. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
   1. Racism or advocation of racism
   2. Sexism or advocation of sexism
   3. Casteism or advocation of casteism
   4. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   5. Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
3. The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
   1. Sexual depictions of children
   2. Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
   3. Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
4. Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
   1. Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
   2. Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
   3. Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.
   4. Inciting users to engage in violence against other users, human beings, or animals, or depictions thereof. This will be interpreted by the administration as they see fit.

These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.

Cross-posting

"Cross-posting" is the automatic copying of posts from one platform to another. That definition does not include the simultaneous posting to multiple platforms from the same app, such as Twidere or PostyBirb. If you use those apps, we consider those posts original, and the following need not apply.

Cross-posting from Mastodon to other platforms is fully permitted. Cross-posting into Mastodon from another platform is permitted under the following terms:

1. The posts do not include platform-specific references, e.g. talking about "here" meaning Twitter, or including text from other non-Mastodon users verbatim (e.g. cross-posted quote tweets)
2. The account is at least semi-regularly monitored by the author, so that interactions from Mastodon users are not ignored
3. The account being cross-posted is owned by the same person. Third-party copying of content is not permitted

Source material

Our moderation team are experienced fact checkers.

Blatant conspiracy theories, misinformation (especially COVID-19 misinformation), and news that is unsourced or poorly sourced is subject to removal.

Unavailable content

Mastodon generally allows users to see and engage with all users in the Fediverse. This instance has chosen not to interact with the following instances due to lack of moderation, content that violates our code of conduct, or illegal content in the United States.

gab.com, Nazis

develop.gab.com, Nazis

gab.ai, Nazis

husk.site, Nazis

freespeechextremist.com, racist content

kneegrows.top, racist content

kiwifarms.cc, Nazis, racist content

kiwifarms.net,Nazis, harassment

gameliberty.club, trolling instance, racist content

prout.social, trolling instance

yggdrasil.social, trolling instance

monads.online, trolling instance

kodlomrazi.ru, harassment

contentkodlomrazi.ru, harassment

afterlife.masto.host, harassment

rapist.town, self-explanatory

raplst.town, self-explanatory

rapefeminists.network, self-explanatory

wxw.moe, loli/anime pedophilia

expired.mentality.rip, loli/anime pedophilia

spinster.xyz, transphobic content

neckbeard.xyz, untagged NSFW content

kinky.business, untagged NSFW content

kinkyelephant.com, untagged NSFW content

stashsh.net, untagged NSFW content

baraag.net, untagged NSFW content

nsfw.social, untagged NSFW content

pl.smuglo.li, untagged NSFW content

xxxtumblr.org, untagged NSFW content

fedibird.com, spamming the public timelines

mstdn.foxfam.club, spamming the public timelines

pokemon.men, spamming the public timelines

pornfed.social, adult content server

sinblr.com, adult content server

switter.at, adult content server

twimblr.xyz, adult content server

catgirl.life, illegal content

pleroma.freespeech.host, federates with gab (Nazis)

freespeech.xyz, harassment

noagendasocial.com, harassment

anitwitter.moe, harassment

toot.love, harassment

waifu.social, harassment

waifuappreciation.club, harassment

pawoo.net, untagged NSFW content, pedophilia, unmoderated

hellsite.site, admin breaks own anti-trolling policy by trolling

cawfee.club, racism, homophobia, transphobia

piggo.space, racism, ableism

shitposter.club, harassment, racist, sexist, homophobic, hateful content

freespeech.firedragonstudios.com, unmoderated, federates with gab (Nazis)

socnet.supes.com, federates with Gab, allows transphobic content

boseburo.ddns.net, untagged NSFW content

wurm.host, racism, homophobia, and more

traboone.com, transphobia, gab federation

social.anthro.cc, anti-science, trolling, racism

rage.love, unmoderated trolling

corginet.duckdns.org, trolling, sexist, racist admin