monocles.social#
monocles.social is a Mastodon instance federated with the Fediverse.
It implements the ActicityPub Standard for microblogging and unlike Twitter, BlueSky or Threads it is not centralized or controlled by a single corporation or instance.
Features#
No Ads#
monocles.social does not have any Advertising or "Sponsored Content" whatsoever!
- Since you the user already pay us to keep it that way!
No Algorithm or Suggestions#
Mastodon and the Fediverse do not not have algorithms or manipulative search suggestions.
- All your content and suggestions are 'organic' in that they are solely based upon who you follow and what those people post and boost.
You are in control#
You can decide who can see your posts, how long they are online, who can message you.
- You can also decide to block anyone or entire instances/domains if you want to.
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Client Setup#
monocles social#
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Tusky#
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Ivory#
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Migrating Accounts and Followers#
Migrating to monocles.social#
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Migrating from monocles.social#
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Use with Tor#
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Limitations and Known Issues#
This Service does require a Monocles Full Account!#
As maintaining, moderating and hosting Mastodon takes a huge amount of resources and costs, we think that making it
Bots have to be marked as such!#
This can be done in the account settings by selecting "This Account is automated".
monocles.social staff reserve the right to block, remove or restrict Bots if they negatively impact monocles.social or are subject to valid reports.#
Some Domains and Users have been blocked from monocles.social#
This is only done when absolutely necessary to enshure monocles.social stays operational, isn't flooded with Spam or attacked by malicious actors.
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monocles.social uses this as a last resort yet "necessary evil" to enshure the service stays up and running.
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monocles.social reserves the right to add and remove entries without prior notice or warning at any moment to enshure the security and safety of the instance and/or it's users and to comply with laws based off it's juristiction, which is Germany.
Illegal content is not permitted - period!#
monocles.social can and will comply with all applicable laws based off it's juristiction, which is Germany.
This means obviously illegal contents will not be accepted and if reported as violation, moderators of monocles.social reserve the right to issue warnings, delete posts, restrict account access and/or delete entire accounts.
For anyone not in the know, this obviously includes the German Penal Code.
Obviously Illegal content:#
This includes but is not limited to:
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Hatespeech of any kind!
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Use of banned symbols and spreading of these (including but not limited to Swastikas).
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Any content depicting sexual acts without consent (i.e. rape) or the ability to consent (i.e. minors, animals).