About this community

We are a United States-based liberal/progressive instance that promotes voting, elections, activism, and voter participation, in particular for the Democratic party and left-leaning Independents.

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

Our goals are to see the U.S. return to democratic norms, defend democracy, increase citizen participation in voting and activism, help people be involved in their own government and elections, and to expand access to those who have been historically marginalized/disenfranchised.

We are not an instance for any right or alt-right groups, anarchists, authoritarians, libertarians, or authoritarian-style communists in the U.S. as we find that it runs contrary to our values of a government that works for all people. Symbols, toots, or accounts promoting these will be removed from the community. There are other instances in the Fediverse that welcome such material.

Posts disparaging the instance or it's members will result in immediate suspension. Do not block the administrator or moderators of the instance. That makes moderation, an important part of Mastodon safety, impossible. Accounts blocking the administrator or moderators will be suspended if they do not respond to requests to unblock.

Please add a picture, header, and basic information to your account prior to use. Ask any administrator or moderator for help if you need it.

This type of information is typically skipped by bot or automated accounts and accounts without such information look suspect to other users on and off the instance. Bot accounts, dupe accounts, and accounts made to circumvent suspensions are subject to permanent removal.

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 1000 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

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of democracy.town; 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. Commercial or advertising-only accounts. Art you make or similar is fine.
   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. Ableism or advocation of ableism
   4. Casteism or advocation of casteism
   5. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   6. 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 the United States
   3. Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
   4. 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 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, groups, or animals, or depictions thereof or wishing death, physical harm, or illness to any individual or groups of people.

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

Character accounts

You’ll notice that many of our instance members have chosen names of characters from movies or comics. People may need anonymity online for personal or professional reasons or may simply prefer it, and this is a fun way to do it.

As a small instance, we have no need to duplicate characters and like to let anyone who chooses to use a character to have their own identity here. If you’d like to make an account with a character name, please contact one of our moderators to get the process started.

Direct impersonation of a real person who you are not is not permitted. Parody accounts are permitted if clearly marked.

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.

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.

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:

Server	Reason
kinky.business	untagged NSFW content
kinkyelephant.com	untagged NSFW content

Suspended servers

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

Server	Reason
10minutepleroma.com	trolling, Nazis, threats of violence, etc.
atlas.fedi.live	Racism, conspiracy theories
baraag.net	untagged NSFW content and avatars
bitcoinhackers.org	Trolling, unmoderated racism, ableism, and homo/transphobia
brighteon.social	Alex Jones promoting site
catgirl.life	content illegal in the U.S.
cawfee.club	racism, sexism, homophobia
corginet.duckdns.org	trolling, racist, sexist admin
counter.fedi.live	conspiracy theory trolling
fedibird.com	spam
freemarketbastard.theburning.world	Use of Gadsden flag, which is a hate symbol, and anti-democratic rhetoric
freespeechextremist.com	racism
freespeech.firedragonstudios.com	Gab-adjacent
gab.ai	Nazis
gab.com	Nazis
gameliberty.club	racism, trolling
gitmo.life	QAnon, pro-violence, racism, pro-torture
gleasonator.com	racism, homophobia, Nazis
hellsite.site	trolls
husk.site	Nazis
kiwifarms.cc	Nazis
kiwifarms.net	Nazis
kodlomrazi.ru	harassment
liberal.city	Federates with Nazis
makhnodon.club	troll
masthead.social	Parler crowd. No moderation from instance operators.
midnightride.rs	Antisemitism, racism, ableism.
monads.online	trolling
mstdn.foxfam.club	spam
nazi.social	Seriously.
neckbeard.xyz	unmoderated racist and homophobic content
noagendasocial.com	rather large agenda of racism, death threats, and harassment
parler.socialq.club	Parler, Nazis, white supremacists, hate speech, calls to violence
pawoo.net	untagged NSFW content, pedophilia, unmoderated
pieville.net	racism
piggo.space	racism, ableism
pleroma.freespeech.host	racism
pleroma.mouse.services	unmoderated trolling
pleroma.us	racism, homophobia
pl.i2p.rocks	Racism, homophobia, transphobia.
pl.smuglo.li	NSFW, untagged and unmoderated
poa.st	Racism, antisemitism, homophobia, Parler/Gab like
pokemon.men	spam
qoto.org	Continued interaction from the administrator who has been blocked from this instance and repeatedly asked to step away. Apparently doesn't understand his own policies of ceasing contact when requested, over and over. Also, libertarian fascist admin.
rage.lol	trolling
sinblr.com	NSFW adult content
skins.gay	Literal Nazis and white supremacists.
sneak.berlin	trolling, data scraping
social.anthro.cc	anti-science, trolling, racism
social.foxfam.club	spam
societal.co	Gab-adjacent, hate speech
socnet.supes.com	transphobia, Gab-adjacent
spinster.xyz	transphobic content
switter.at	NSFW adult content
toot.love	harassment, lack of moderation
traboone.com	racism, homophobia, transphobic
tweety.icu	Alex Jones/Infowars conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories
twimblr.xyz	NSFW adult content
waifuappreciation.club	harassment
wurm.host	racism, homophobia, and more
xxxtumblr.org	Untagged NSFW content
yggdrasil.social	trolling