The first two parts of this document, the Code of Conduct and the Privacy section, are worth reading. The rest is just kinda noise that we needed to put somewhere.
Code of Conduct
Note: "Social Wubsite" in this document refers to the Social Wubsite Mastodon/Hometown instance at https://social.wub.site. "The administrators" refers to the administrators on this organization: currently @simrob@social.wub.site, @pmazaitis@social.wub.site, and @chrisamaphone@social.wub.site.
This code of conduct applies to all Social Wubsite spaces, including public channels, private channels and direct messages. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the administrators.
No Harassment
Social Wubsite is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form, whether on this website or elsewhere. This includes:
- Downward-punching remarks (whether direct insults or undirected comments) related to gender, trans status, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, immigration status, religion, or other identity marker. This includes anti-Indigenous/Nativeness and anti-Blackness.
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, relationships, and employment.
- Deliberate misgendering or use of "dead" or rejected names
- Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they're not explicitly invited
- Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop.
- Threats of violence Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
- Deliberate intimidation
- Stalking or unwanted following
- Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
- Sustained disruption of discussion
- Unwelcome sexual attention
- Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
- Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
- Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse
- Publication of non-harassing private communication
- Jokes that resemble the above, such as "hipster racism", still count as harassment even if meant satirically or ironically.
- Microaggressions, which take the form of everyday jokes, put downs, and insults that spread humiliating feelings to people of marginalized groups
The administrators will not act on complaints regarding:
- "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia"
- Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I'm not discussing this with you."
- Communicating in a "tone" you don't find congenial
- Criticism of racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions
Other Rules
- Don't publish other people's stuff without giving credit, and don't post things you don't have permission to post.
Reporting
If you are being harassed by a member of Social Wubsite, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact an administrator (listed at the top of this document) directly or file a report using the Mastodon reporting system (click the "..." on a post and then use the reporting feature).
The admins reserve the right to exclude people from Social Wubsite based on their past behavior, including behavior outside Social Wubsite spaces and behavior towards people who are not in Social Wubsite. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
Consequences
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the administrators may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Social Wubsite spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other Social Wubsite members or the general public.
If, after being warned, a participant continues to engage in non-harassment rule violations, or persistently disrupts the community in ways that do not rise to harrassment, then the administrators may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Social Wubsite spaces.
Updates
The administrators reserve the right to update the Code of Conduct at any time at their discretion. Updates to the CoC will be communicated to users via email and posts from admin accounts. If you have any concerns about or suggestions for the CoC, please contact an administrator via DM.
Privacy
The data you post here lives on a server that Rob Simmons and Paul Mazaitis run. They promise that they won't look at your private data. You are just going to have to trust them on this.
This is, however, an ActivityPub federated server. This means that other people on other federated servers can find you, send you messages, etc. This also means that any information you put in posts, whether they are public or private, might end up "federated" — basically, a copy of your post gets put on any server that reads your post.
If you want decent privacy (the info doesn't leave this server), the only way to do that is to require approval for follow requests, only accept friend requests from other social.wub.site users, and only ever use our "local-only" posting mode which you learned about in your onboarding. Once you start talking to people on other servers, all bets are off. Any private message you send to someone on another server could be looked at by the admin of a different server. This is kind of like email: if you are on a private email server, and you send an unencrypted email to a gmail account, congrats, Google now has the content of that email. But also, you do this every day, so, hey. The internet!
DMCA
The Social Wubsite respects the intellectual property rights of others. Per the DMCA, we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the Site if submitted to our Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, We will take whatever action it deems appropriate within its sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials and termination of access for repeat infringers of copyright protected content.
If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by us or by a third party who has uploaded materials to our website, please provide the following information to the designated Copyright Agent listed below:
- A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
- An address, telephone number, and email address where we can contact you and, if different, an email address where the alleged infringing party, if not we, can contact you;
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner or other intellectual property rights owner, by its agent, or by law;
- A statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
- Your electronic or physical signature.
- The Social Wubsite may request additional information before removing any allegedly infringing material. In the event we remove the allegedly infringing materials, we will immediately notify the person responsible for posting such materials that we removed or disabled access to the materials. We may also provide the responsible person with your email address so that the person may respond to your allegations.
Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 512(c). The Social Wubsite's designated Copyright Agent is:
Jonathan Bailey
CopyByte
3157 Gentilly Blvd Suite # 2254
New Orleans, LA 70122
Phone: 1-504-356-4555
Email: socialwub-dmca@copybyte.com
Credits
Authors: Rob Simmons, Paul Mazaitis, Chris Martens
The code of conduct was adapted from the Friend Camp code of conduct, which was in turn adapted from the LGBTQ in Tech Code of Conduct, and is provided under a Creative Commons Zero License, meaning the contents are in the public domain.
The privacy commentary was adapted from Darius Kazemi, and is provided under a Creative Commons Zero License, meaning the contents are in the public domain.