weeaboo-space-meta/info/Rules.md

Rules / Terms of Service

We do not allow:

• Spoiling of somewhat recent movies, games, books, etc. Use the content warning / subject field
• Pornographic avatars (No I won't complain about half-naked anime girls, just keep nipples and genitals away)
• Untagged NSFW
• Continued, intentional and targeted bullying/spamming.
• Exiling/Threatening someone for their opinion. You're not obligated to listen, nor to care, but they still have the right to say what they want as long as their actions don't break any other rules. If you don't like someone, you block them and call it a day
• Nothing that's actually illegal. Like child pornography or unironic bomb threats
• In short: Tag your porn and don't be an asshole

Fine details

• Boosting untagged NSFW is not considered the same as posting untagged NSFW. Blame the original instance for those posts if you must.
• "Somewhat recent movies, games[...]" means anything from the past 10 years. If the year is 2018, you would not need to hide images/text of you playing a game that's from 2007 or earlier. Of course, if you know that a person is playing a story-based game, don't intentionally spoil them, that falls under the "Don't be an asshole" rule.
• Yes, you can use words like "nigger" or "weeb" as long as they're not intended as flat out insults. But if the person says they're uncomfortable with such words, stop writing them to the person in question.
• If someone finds your joke distasteful, you apologize and move on. But if you keep writing similar distasteful jokes after the person tells you to stop, you are bullying/spamming, and/or being an asshole.

We do allow:

• Controversial opinions
• "Questionable jokes"
• Shitposting (But stop spamming people if they ask. They should not have to ask multiple times)
• In short: Most things that aren't simply rude/annoying, and/or illegal.

Additional policies/details:

• We do not use instance-wide blocks except to combat spamhives. Each user is responsible for their own timeline. I am responsible for the local timeline. And the federated timeline is a free-for-all.
• Targeting someone for their opinion may be overruled where someone's opinion is central to the discussion at hand. e.g while discussing presidential elections, since their personalities is most of the discussion material. Or while drama arises on subjects such as the mental state of a school shooter. In other words: If a bunch of news sites around the world are already complaining about it, it's probably okay for you to complain too.
• No. We're not an "alt-right" instance. Free speech does not mean we're nazis. But it does mean people on this instance are not obligated to pretend that they agree with you. "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen"

Instance description:

Weeaboo.space is an invite-only instance focused on general discussion, but often anime or tech. Any subject is allowed on this instance as long as you don't break any of the rules. We support free speech "within reason".

We understand that some other instances don't like this free-for-all nature. But if you must block, I urge you to block on a per-user level rather than the whole instance. That is better both for your users, and for the fediverse as a whole.