Rules 'n' Such
Rules 'n' Such
Lemon Bar Hangout is a shared instance run by MFN mostly for fun, so most of what is below won't apply to visitors. But if you are a project member who applied for registration and it was granted, you need to read and follow this.
While we aim to be present and stay on top of things, our volunteer staff are split across Canadian and US timezones and that means that it may take us a bit to catch reports.
The Rules:
Lemon Bar Hangout should not be used in any way that would be considered as:
- Posting or distributing anything that is illegal under Canadian or US Law.
- Posting or distributing copyrighted material without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
- Intent to create violence against an individual, group, scripted violence or support for systemic violence.
- Posts or comments that are discriminatory, racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic.
- Commercial advertising.
- Disclosure of personal or sensitive information without the explicit permission of the relevant persons.
- Harassment or bullying.
- Impersonation or puppet accounts.
- Vote manipulation.
- Circumventing rules or moderation on federated websites.
Federation Ideals:
The volunteer staff that run Marbled Fennec Networks will be open and transparent about any communities that we end up having to defederate from. We aim to have open federation with most lemmy instances until given a reason to no longer allow our instance to interact with theirs. Such things will be reviewed on a case by case basis.
Defederation with instances will occur for the following reasons:
- The instance promotes, distributes or otherwise harbors hate speech, hate ideology or otherwise unsavory character.
- The instance does not provide the needed moderation for their community or refuses to discuss needed moderation when cross community issues arise.
- The instance serves communities with the explicit stance of promoting, distributing and hosting pirated content.
- The instance possesses or is known for having a community that is overly hateful, aggressive or otherwise annoying.
Honestly, it comes down to just play nice and be fair to one another. Our staff consist of volunteers with lives outside of The MFN Project and no one wants to have to babysit this instance or other parts of our network because folks can't behave.