Below is a summary of rules you need to follow if you want to have an account on this server of Mastodon:
The Dragon's cave is a small dragon-themed community of mostly visually impaired folks, hosted by Talon the Dragon. Everyone is welcome, however, as long as they are a kind and friendly person. You can expect posts about accessibility, development, gaming, privacy, and other technology related topics, but also food, music, poetry, short stories, and other things of interest.
Are you curious about why you should join this instance over all the others out there? Here are some of the things we offer:
If this has convinced you, please familiarize yourself with our etiquette and then send us an application! Since we recieve a large volume of spam signups, we would appreciate if you told us a little about yourself and why you wish to join. Remember to include the password that proves you have read the rules, which you can find below them.
We want this instance to be a welcoming and comfortable space for everyone. To achieve this, please keep these 5 things in mind.
Do not harass, insult, or otherwise intentionally harm other users of any kind, local or federated. Do not discriminate against people based on any of the various things that make humanity so beautiful and diverse, including but not limited to: age, appearance, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion or lack thereof, sexual orientation, etc.
Do not deliberately spread misinformation, including pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. Given the dangers of the current situation we find ourselves in, COVID-19 related misinformation will be dealt with especially strictly; do not post or boost any misinformation minimizing the virus's impact, accusing the medical community or affected people of lying, or discouraging social distancing, vaccinations, and the wearing of masks.
Avoid creating advertising or bot accounts on this instance without permission. There may be exceptions, but it is best to consult with either of the administrators before going ahead. Please consider instead joining one of the specialized instances for bot accounts, which are a better place for your account's visibility and discoverability, as well as the health of our instance's timelines and federation.
Cross posting (using software to post the same content on multiple social media services) is only allowed if you regularly check your account here and interact with notifications. Please set cross posts to Unlisted or stricter.
Do not post or link to content that could get us hit with a violation of copyright. Only post personally identifiable information if you have explicit permission to do so. In general, if you are not sure whether or not to share something, it is likely you should not. Keep in mind that this instance is hosted in Germany and thus abides by its laws.
Please post any sexual content as Unlisted or stricter, and make sure to add an appropriate content warning. If you regularly find yourself wanting to post content of sexual nature, this may not be the best instance for you. Do not post any sexualized depictions of animals, minors, or sexual assault, regardless of whether they are real or fictional.
Politics, Religion, and other controversial topics should be posted behind a content warning. Be mindful of people you interact with, as they may have had experiences drastically different from yours, including severe psychological or physical trauma. Content warnings are no inconvenience for you as a user, and will provide a much higher well being for individuals that might want to read your content, but prefer not to get involved in those topics due to various reasons.
Please try to describe your media posts to the best of your ability to accommodate disabilities such as blindness and deafness. If you cannot do so, there is nothing wrong with asking for help. Currently, tagging @ImageCaptionsPls@a.gup.pe is the best way to do so.
You have reached the end of our etiquette. Thank you for your diligence! The password you should add to your application is: confelicity. We chose it because it is a sadly uncommon word, meaning "pleasure in another's happiness."
Dragon's Cave is moderated by two people: talon and Mayana. We do our best to take care of the instance, but we are just volunteers, and only human. If you come upon any objectionable content, please report it, and we will respond as soon as possible. Additionally, feel free to reach out to us — preferably both in the same direct message — if you would like us to change something about the rules above, the instance moderation actions below, or anything else related to the instance.
Most of the custom emoji on this instance are from Mutant Standard, and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All the Mutant Standard emoji are gender-neutral.
The dragon emoji were drawn by Chr@scalie.business and are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. They are cute, sweet minimalist flat style emojis of yellow, western-styled dragon heads. You can read the descriptions of individual emojis on Chr's Github.
The eyeless smileys -- descriptions here -- were kindly gifted by LJWrites@rage.love. The eyeless blobcats were made by Pixouls@post.lurk.org; they can be downloaded on their Github.
Lastly, the interaction permit/refusal emoji (at, boost and favorite OK and no), as well as the local_only emoji, which makes it possible to post locally even on clients that otherwise don't support it, were made by Pfx.rage.love. You can find their descriptions in these toots.
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 no thumbnails will be displayed, requiring manual click-through to the original file:
Server | Reason |
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freespeech.firedragonstudios.com | Conspiracy theories, hate speech and harassment. (See FediBlock.org) |
paw**.*et | Sexualized depiction of minors. |
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 |
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birdsite.link | Bots-only instance, Twitter crossposting. |
botsin.space | Bots-only instance. |
newsbots.eu | Bots-only instance. |
respublicae.eu | Bots-only instance, Twitter crossposting. |
freespeech.firedragonstudios.com | Conspiracy theories, hate speech and harassment. (See FediBlock.org) |
paw**.*et | Sexualized depiction of minors. |
No data from these servers will be processed, stored or exchanged, making any interaction or communication with users from these servers impossible:
Server | Reason |
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angrytoday.com | Ableism, racism, sexism. |
anim*.****ite | Racism, sexual depictions of minors, pedophilia. |
app.kenhbit.com | Financial spam. |
bar***.*et | Sexualized depiction of minors. (See FediBlock.org) |
brigh****.**cial | Conspiracy theories, fascism, and other trash. Current home of Alex Jones. (See FediBlock.org) |
caw***.**ub | Racists and actual nazis. (See FediBlock.org) |
f.haeder.net | Harassment of one of our users, homophobia, enbyphobia/binarism. |
freespeechextremist.com | Hate speech and harassment. (See FediBlock.org) |
gab.ai | Gab is a community of cranks, conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, and other kinds of alt-right trash. |
gab.com | Gab is a community of cranks, conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, and other kinds of alt-right trash. |
gameliberty.club | Racism, allows loli art. (See FediBlock.org) |
gleasonator.com | Racism, antisemitism, transphobia and other hate speech. (See FediBlock.org) |
helladoge.com | Cryptocurrency followbot spam. |
kiwifarms.cc | Kiwi Farms is a community dedicated to organized trolling whose users frequently engage in doxxing, stalking and harassment, including real-life harassment. (See FediBlock.org) |
kiwifarms.is | Kiwi Farms is a community dedicated to organized trolling whose users frequently engage in doxxing, stalking and harassment, including real-life harassment. (See FediBlock.org) |
kiwifarms.net | Kiwi Farms is a community dedicated to organized trolling whose users frequently engage in doxxing, stalking and harassment, including real-life harassment. (See FediBlock.org) |
leafposter.club | Allowed an account resharing a list of transgender people on the Fediverse. |
lus*.*oe | Sexualized depiction of minors. (See FediBlock.org) |
ns.auction | Racism. |
piev****.net | Actual nazis. (See FediBlock.org) |
poa.st | Hate speech, ableism, racism, transphobia, etc. |
postin*.*******.rocks | Actual nazis. (See FediBlock.org) |
rakket.app | Allowed an account resharing a list of transgender people on the Fediverse. |
raygungothic.xyz | Antisemitism, misogyny, racism, rape apologism. |
shitposter.club | Hate speech, harassment and a whole bunch of -isms, as expected from the name. (See FediBlock.org) |
smu***.li | Hate speech and harassment, sexualized depiction of minors. (See FediBlock.org) |
smug****.net | Backup domain of smuglo.li. (See FediBlock.org) |
solagg.com | Follow bot spam. |
trut*******.com | This will most likely be anything except the name. neither truth, nor social. |
wx*.**e | Sexualized depiction of minors. |