triangletoot.party

triangletoot.party

This Mastodon instance is intended for those who have an interest in the Triangle region of North Carolina. You aren't required to live here in order to join, but please mention why you want to join triangletoot.party in particular if you apply to join. There are lots of general instances out there, and your request will be denied if you give a generic response to that question. If you have a friend who is already a part of this server, they can send you an invite.

Getting started

This official Mastodon guide will help explain all the different parts of Mastodon, but here's a quick rundown:

• Toot* = post (like Twitter's tweet)
• Boost = show that post on your profile (like Twitter's retweet)
• Favorite = show appreciation for a post (like Twitter's like)
• Home = posts from people you follow
• Local = posts from everybody on triangletoot.party
• Federated = posts from everybody known to triangletoot.party

Suggested first steps

• Add a profile picture
• Post a toot! Tell us a little bit about yourself and make sure to add the #introduction tag to your post so others can find you.
• Filter out languages to your liking (especially useful for the federated timeline)
• Browse the local and federated timelines for people to follow

How do I find people to follow?

• Browse local profiles to find users on triangletoot.party.
• Check out Trunk to find individuals.
• Check out Guppe to find and follow people with similar interests.

Funding

This instance is funded by @autumn@triangletoot.party. Donations for running the server and moderation can be made here: https://liberapay.com/triangletoot.party.

Prohibited content

This content is prohibited by the hosting service, Masto.host.

• Illegal activity
• Sexual content involving minors, including artistic depictions
• Gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
• National Socialism
• Nazism
• Holocaust denial
• Racism
• Alt right, including under the disguise of freedom of speech
• Gender-critical
• Sex and gender discrimination
• Transphobia
• Misogyny
• Pro-ana / Pro-mia
• Automated sharing of third-party content, news sources, websites or social media content that doesn’t belong to you
• Trolling, insulting and derogatory comments towards others outside your server
• Mass following and aggregation of content

Credits

This instance uses Mutant Standard emoji, which are licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License.

Footnotes

* Toots are now called "posts" in the codebase, but colloquially they are still sometimes referred to as toots.