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Make sure to check our status page: status.hachyderm.io
As well as our docs page: community.hachyderm.io/docs
⚠️ The Markdown files, a.k.a. legacy docs, are in the process of being migrated to the docs page and will be deleted. When submitting PRs, please only do so for the website which is in thecommunity.hachyderm.iodirectory in this repository.
Here you will find information and resources on how we manage things at Hachyderm.
Check the status page: status.hachyderm.io
Additionally check: our public Grafana dashboard
Here we are trying to build a curated network of respectful professionals in the tech industry around the globe. Welcome anyone who follows the rules and needs a safe home or fresh start.
We are hackers, professionals, enthusiasts, and are passionate about life, respect, and digital freedom. We believe in peace and balance.
Safe space. Tech Industry. Economics. OSINT. News. Rust. Linux. Aurae. Kubernetes. Go. C. Infrastructure. Security. LGTBQIA+. Pets. Hobbies.
If you have recently joined Hachyderm and/or Mastodon, please see the following:
- Welcome Guide for Mastodon 101 and getting started.
- Unofficial Nivenly Discord is used for real-time communications.
Information on Donations is at community.hachyderm.io/docs/thank-you.
We identify a few types of accounts that are useful for understanding the minutia for things such as corporate accounts, bot accounts, event accounts, and open source project accounts.
The primary purpose of Hachyderm is to provide a place where IT (and adjacent) professionals to network. To be clear: this is not a "LinkedIn" type of instance. With that in mind we have a few account types that we explicitly do not allow:
- Fundraising Accounts
- Ad / Marketing Accounts
- This includes promos, discount codes, etc.
- 18+ / NSFW Accounts
To be clear: our users may engage with the above types of content if they wish, we just aren't geared for supporting the above account types. An account will be considered one of the above if all / mostly all of their posts and re-posts are in the above categories.
See our official rules.
This is your first and final warning to take our rules seriously.
Hachyderm and its surrounding community have found safety and value in a primary guiding principle, that is often hard to interpret.
Don't be a dick.
We believe that everyone knows when they are "being a dick", and we do not tolerate this level of aggression towards our community.
In short, we believe that you know if you are being a dick, and therefore you should be able to stop. If you do not stop, you will no longer be welcome on Hachyderm.
Being a dick is measured by "self control" and "intent".
Are you able to restrain yourself? What are your intentions?
If your intentions are to hurt, brandish, intimidate, slander, diminish, insult, or offend someone you are likely being a dick. If you are commenting on anyone's "tone", whether or not they are "having a civilized" discussion, or offering apologetics in response to one or more of the various forms of extremism, you are also likely being a dick. We believe you should be able to restrain yourself in these situations. If you do not restrain yourself, we believe that you are likely being a dick.
Being a dick is the opposite of respect. We believe all "bad takes" on a topic can be voiced with respect. We hold each member of the community accountable for managing themselves and finding a respectful way of communicating their contrarian views.
We expect all members to be respectful and thus, not be a dick.
Oxford dictionary defines shitposting as:
the activity of posting deliberately provocative or off-topic comments on social media, typically in order to upset others or distract from the main conversation.
In short shitposting is allowed on Hachyderm.
However, shitposting can easily violate our "don't be a dick policy" if it turns into offensive trolling at the expense of others.
The key factor in distinguishing between shitposting and being a dick is "at the expense of others".
We believe that any time clout, attention, credibility, fortune, or fame is gained "at the expense of others" it is likely close to a violation of our "no colonialism" rule or a violation of our "don't be a dick" policy.
We don't want to be the "shitpost" police. We encourage you to shitpost, just not at the expense of others.
In general we try not to change our rules. If we do, we need to give the community time to understand the impact of the change and move away from our server if they chose.
- Draft the new rule. Write the "headline" and then write a few sentences to elaborate on the rule.
- Publish the draft (GitHub, HackMD, etc).
- Advertise the draft (This is similar to publishing an obituary or a name change in a newspaper). a. Our admins, mods, and leadership should all be encouraged to share the new change.
- Gain feedback, make adjustments, work with the community, hear concerns, give space for alternative opinions. Pause. Reflect.
- Make the decision to institute the new rule, and publish a "goes in effect" date.
- Institute the new rule.
Only Kris Nóva can remove a rule at this time.
We understand there are nasty people on the internet, and we will do everything we can to protect our community from them.
We ask that all community members respect our mission to remain peaceful, and deescalate in times of conflict.
If ever there clearly is a targeted attack, doxxing attempt, troll, or otherwise aggressive situation on Hachyderm our advice is to report it and deescalate the situation. Do not engage. Do not respond.
Our experience dealing with bad-actors, trolls, and aggressive accounts is that engagement is what they are looking for. Our primary weapon against them is a silent block (our mods are very responsive!) and moving on as if nothing happened.
In the event this is not possible, we ask that you host your own infrastructure to forge such a counter maneuver against a group. Keep it off Hachyderm.
We will remove any account who gains a reputation for "stirring the pot" or "engaging with conflict" on our site, despite how virtuous or noble the effort may be. Hachyderm is not the place for this.
Our moderators are not the fediverse police. Your presence on Hachyderm should not become a burden to our moderators. We expect all community members to make our moderators jobs easier.
We expect everyone to understand that our moderators are volunteers who work tirelessly around the clock to keep deliberate bad-actors away from our community.
We don't expect our moderators to also have to chase around our community members who are violating rules or need to be reminded of our policy.
As a community member if you get on our moderators radar you are likely doing something very offensive.
We believe in patience and understanding. There is a good chance that expectations have not been set or a policy has not been made clear.
We will work with you to find a happy path, however if it becomes a pattern we will ask you to leave Hachyderm.
The most critical thing you can do to help us help you (even more so than a donation) is to reduce noise.
The best way for you to help reduce noise is to leverage our issue tracker instead of independent one-off requests for help. It is a full time job sifting through requests and making sense of them. If you want to help, leverage the issue tracker and create a new issue or better yet find one that already exists.
- Please do not DM on Mastodon.
- Please do not reach out on Twitter.
- Please do not join the Discord just to report an issue, bug, or feature request.
- Please do not send us emails (we get too many emails).
- File an issue in this repository