At SEPS, we offer personal Sweet-E-Social instances (running Hometown – a fork of Mastodon) as part of our mission to promote ethical business practices. As such, these instances must abide by a certain set of rules.
The purpose of these rules is simply to ensure said instance remains ethically focused.
Administrators are free to add additional rules should they desire, but are not permitted to deviate from or contradict any of the following rules.
The following list is in alphabetical order. (The order is not related to a rule's priority – they are all to be treated with equal importance.)
Any variation of bigotry including but not limited to ableism, ageism, antisemitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, misandry, misogyny, racism, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia will not be tolerated.
Foul language harms our ability to spread positivity throughout the Fediverse.
Harassment is a violation of comfort, privacy, and / or safety, which every mastonaut is entitled to.
SEPS Social is hosted in the EU (Germany), and SEPS itself is based in Thailand. Therefore, content illegal in Thailand, Germany, or the EU will not be tolerated on this instance.
LLMs (often inaccurately referred to as "AI") are unethical for a variety of reasons including but not limited to automatizing weapons, cognitive impairment, erosion of free will, exacerbating inequality, extensive damage to the environment, impersonation, labor exploitation, misinformation, political biases, privacy violations, and widespread copyright infringement.
Spreading of MDM, whether intentional or negligent, harms our ability to improve the experience of our fellow mastonauts. Please be sure you know what you're talking about when posting original content, and that you've verified the factuality of posts / articles you share.
SEPS Social stands for freedom of religion as well as freedom from religion. Attempting to force your beliefs onto others is not an acceptable use of our platform.
SEPS Social is a place for legitimate business practices, and therefore scamming your fellow mastonauts will not be tolerated.
Content that does not violate any of SEPS Social's other rules but may otherwise be considered "sensitive" to certain demographics must be labelled as such, so as to avoid upsetting unwilling participants.