shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

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1. Is anyone else getting routed to chinese language when they visit this URL? because i am: docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/ (i end up at the URL docs.joinmastodon.org/zh-cn/me - note the "zh-cn" in the path.
i doublechecked my browser locale, VPN, etc. etc. and there's nothing configured for mainland chinese locale, but this happened even after clearing cache data for joinmastodon.org

2. who maintains the #JoinMastodon site?

cc: @mastodonmigration @FediTips @fediversereport @LaurensHof

docs.joinmastodon.orghttps://docs.joinmastodon.org/zh-cn/methods/apps/

Fediverse.Games is Waiting for You!

Are you looking for a friendly, inclusive fediverse community? Fediverse.Games has a variety of services, and we're taking on new members on all of them!

The Services

Mastodon

Our OG service is Mastodon! We run glitch-soc, which gives you longer posts, markdown formating, and plenty of other fun stuff!

PeerTube

The second (and fastest growing!) service we offer is PeerTube. Our PeerTube allows import from your YouTube channel and 50GB of free video hosting!

WriteFreely

We've recently added WriteFreely to our services! It isn't a perfect service, but it's the best option of those available and we think it's a great addition, and we hope the long-form games writing community will grow with our contribution to it.

The Rules

We wish to run a friendly, kind and inclusive server, and do not have any tolerance for discrimination or bigotry of any kind, including but not limited to racism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia. It can be hard enough for people to be their true selves offline, let's not make it harder online too.

We also have no tolerance for the promotion or nazi, alt-right and ultra-conservative ideologies.

In the pursuit of accessibility, we ask users to add alt-text to their images where they're apply to for the advantage of those using screen readers to interact with us. However, we also do not tolerate abuse toward users who might forget to do so or aren't used to doing it yet.

Legal Status

All of our infrastructure and user data is held in Australia.

Further Reading

We also have a wiki, where you can read our server charter and what we can expect of each other in more detail:

Photo by Rebeca Alvidrez on Unsplash

Before you sign up to #Bluesky, you should know:

How We Use Personal Information?
- for marketing purposes
- for other permissible purposes...as allowed under applicable law

How We Disclose Your Personal Information?
- We may share personal information with third parties...in connection with corporate transactions

International Transfers?
- We may transfer personal information internationally

How Long We Keep Personal Information?
- We may keep your personal information as necessary...

Security?
- We make 'reasonable' efforts to protect your information

#mastodon #joinmastodon #privacy #security
bsky.social/about/support/priv

*edit: I checked again with their entire address and found them! Woot!

* another edit: they have applied for beige! They have applied for beige! We might get another beige party member! Yay! Pretty much disregard the rest of the post even though I'm going to leave it up.

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One of my friends in real life joined mastodon yesterday! 🥳

Unfortunately, they chose an instance that this one blocks or isn't federated with (mastodon.social).

I can see them from my other accounts, but not from this one.

Maybe I can entice them over to beige once they get their bearings.

📅 In the Mastodon Discord, you can now see a curated list of events that are correlated to the fediverse in some way - a specific track, session, speaker or entire conferences about the topic. Mastodon staff are listed that will be there in some official or unofficial manner. Cool!

🌍🇪🇺 Together, let's promote Mastodon as a solid #AlternativeEU to #USA platforms like X (formerly Twitter) 🐦 and #Bluesky! Every new person who joins strengthens our movement and amplifies our impact! Mastodon is secure, open-source, and outside the reach of the Trump government and its attempts to silence us! 🚫🗣️

Together, let's make a difference! #ElbowsUp💪 #Mastodon #DecentralizedSocialMedia #PrivacyMatters #DigitalFreedom #EUvsUSA #BoycottUSA #TechIndependence #OpenSource #JoinMastodon

If you are still on #Twitter, please spread the info about leaving Twitter ("X") and similar platforms on 20th Jan or earlier in all languages you know!
Quoting @Em0nM4stodon:
infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon

Specifically:

Yes, I know, in an ideal world all decent people would have already left it but better late than never!
#SocialMedia #MastodonMigration #JoinMastodon #Facebook #Instagram

Infosec ExchangeEm :official_verified: (@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange)For English speakers who do not speak French: I wanted to let you know about this awesome movement started in France to encourage people to quit X (Twitter) on January 20. You can follow it here with the hashtag #HelloQuitX and use Mastodon's translation feature to read the posts (if your server has it). You can read more about this movement on this website (in English): https://www.helloquitx.com/ You can support this movement by following it on Mastodon, and sharing widely: @helloQuitX@mastodon.social #QuitX #DeleteTwitter #Mastodon

Are you new to the Fediverse or just after a new Mastodon intance? Why not give masto.fediverse.games a go?

We're a fairly new instance and have our books open to take on new members!

The Basics

We're a gaming-oriented server running the glitch-soc variant of Mastodon, so you get the Mastodon+ experience - everything you love about Mastodon but with lots of QoL tweaks, such as longer posts (up to 2048 characters!), rich text formatting brought to you by markdown, as well as lots of tweaks to make your experience in the fediverse a little nicer.

The Rules

We wish to run a friendly, kind and inclusive server, and do not have any tolerance for discrimination or bigotry of any kind, including but not limited to racism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia. It can be hard enough for people to be their true selves offline, let's not make it harder online too.

We also have no tolerance for the promotion or nazi, alt-right and ultra-conservative ideologies.

In the pursuit of accessibility, we ask users to add alt-text to their images for the advantage of those using screen readers to interact with us. However, we also do not tolerate abuse toward users who might forget to do so or aren't used to doing it yet.

Legal Status

All of our infrastructure and user data is held in Australia. We initially did hold some backup data in the USA for cost reasons, however in the wake of the US election result, and with the extreme risk those in vulnerable groups face, we made the decision to migrate this data back to Australia.

Further Reading

We also have a wiki, where you can read our server charter and what we can expect of each other in more detail: wiki.fediverse.games/en/charte

I'm also super keen to answer questions you have, so please feel free to reach out to me either privately or publicly if you want to learn more about the instance and our future plans.

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