bath.social

Server rules

Below is a summary of rules you need to follow if you want to have an account on this server of Mastodon:

1. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism
3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
4. No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
5. No content illegal in Germany (where the server is), or the UK
6. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information

What?

A co-operatively owned social media platform for Bath and it's surrounding area.

• run, managed, and owned by it's members
• focused on regenerating a more socially and ecologically aware Bath
• not centred on any one project, but supporting informal connections between people across many different projects
• ... plus people not active in any projects, who just want to chat and see what is going on
• not just for worthy content: cat/food pics, and funny memes too!

Why?

• the big social media sites (Facebook/Twitter/etc) are build on a model of Surveillance capitalism ("an economic system centered around the commodification of personal data with the core purpose of profit-making")
• informal ad-hoc chat is really important to build ecosystems
• individual projects tend to have their own silos of communication
• a great exercise in citizen empowerment!
• locally focused, yet plugged into the wider ecosystem is a great model

Find out more

You can read a bit more over at about.bath.social.