This instance is for all handmade artisans to create accounts for their Etsy and other handmade business shops.
An account on handmade.social is not a replacement for your personal account, but an additional account specifically for your handmade business. You should maintain a personal account on a separate instance.
Note about registration requests:
Please use the name of your handmade shop or business as your username. This instance requires the "Why do you want to join?" field to be filled when requesting registration.
Please include a link to your shop or website.
If you would like to support the operation and maintenance of handmade.social,
you may do so via a one-time or monthly contribution at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/handmade.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:
- No trolling, microaggressions, or harassment. See the Code of Conduct for the full list.
- handmade.social has a zero-tolerance mandate for harassment or bullying — your account will be immediately suspended.
- No NFTs! There are crypto-related instances on the fediverse that would be more suitable.
- Respect other users' boundaries.
- No sensitive content such as violence/blood, NSFW items, and other potentially upsetting or triggering items.
- The following content will be removed and will result in revocation of access to the service: sexual depictions of minors (this includes loli), content illegal in Germany, France and/or The United States, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism, conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism.
- The following content will be removed and may result in account suspension: racism, sexism, discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, ableism, xenophobia and/or violent nationalism, or the advocation of all of the above.
- Conduct intended to stalk or harass users, impede users from using the service, degrade the performance of the service, or incite others to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is disallowed.
- Please do not flood the local timeline. We define "flooding" as posting three or more times per five minutes to the local/public timeline.
- No reposting other people's work without credit
- The following content will be removed from the public timeline: advertising and spam (this does *not* mean your shop links and commission pages! Please share those often!), unapproved bots, content that should be CWed and tagged but isn't
Please read handmade.social's etiquette and terms of use before signing up.
We strive to make handmade.social a safe and supportive community for all handmade artisans — hate and bigotry have no place here. handmade.social has no ads or algorithms to mess with chronological timelines, and doesn't track you or profit off your data. Brands wishing to make an account here must be respectful by engaging with the local community.
handmade.social is run by members of the community and is not a company trying to profit off of your life and art with ads. As such, your support is greatly appreciated.
If you would like to support the operation and maintenance of handmade.social,
you may do so via a one-time or monthly contribution at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/handmade.social.
handmade.social General Information
handmade.social is an independent community-run instance and is not affiliated with the joinMastodon.org (tootsuite) organization. The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administrators and moderators of handmade.social. They are listed here to provide you with an insight into the site and our moderation policies.
Moderation Team
@maker (Instance Admin)
General Notice
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The following is not allowed on handmade.social: Bots, username squatting, registrations of famous trademarks/names (unless proof of identity is given).
To be certain that your account isn't removed due to inactivity, be sure to upload an avatar and post at least once. Accounts without avatars or any activity may be deleted to free up registration space on the instance.
- Do not use handmade.social as a permanent back up or repository for your information, statuses, or media. Please keep an original copy of your work on your local machine, as Mastodon downsizes large file sizes. We cannot guarantee perpetual storage of your toots, information, or media on our servers. Please make a periodic local backup of your account to safeguard against possible data loss.
- You may move your account to another instance at any time by using the "Move to a different account" setting at the bottom of your Edit Profile page in your Preferences. You can also export your follow and block lists from the Import & Export page and import them into your new account to make the transition easier.
- You may delete your account at any time using the "Delete account" option at the bottom of the Edit Profile page. Keep in mind that federation of your statuses to other servers or search engines is beyond handmade.social's control — statuses, media and federated copies of your profile may remain elsewhere. Deleting your account is permanent, cannot be undone, and your username/content cannot be reinstated.
- We block or suspend many instances that do not adhere to handmade.social's ToS and CoC. Also, instances are intermittently and temporarily silenced during report investigations or when other instance moderators are not monitoring their users for any of the behaviours against our ToS/CoC.
- Please support the community by regularly boosting and positively interacting with other members.
Code of Conduct
The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of handmade.social. These guidelines are here to provide you with an insight into the site and moderation policies because all members are guests here:
- All users, local and remote, are expected to adhere to the following principles:
- If you repost others' work, you must credit the original artist/author.
- Respect other users' boundaries. Be respectful and sincerely apologize if someone informs you that a boundary has been crossed. Give people space if you accidentally push past a boundary.
- If you find yourself involved in a conflict and are worried about the situation escalating, contact your administration and moderation team.
- Do not post sensitive content such as violence/blood, NSFW content, and other potentially upsetting or triggering topics
- All users, local and remote, will be considered in the wrong in a conversation that goes sour if they participate in the following:
- Microaggressions ("not all men", white/man/cis-splaining, using the wrong pronouns to address someone after being corrected, ableism, etc.)
- Demanding education on problematic behaviour from a non-admin/moderator
- Skirting the lines of being a troll, or directly trolling
- Sharing DM screenshots or quotes from DMs or private communications publicly without all parties' permission
- Creating memes about someone without their permission
- Ranting or engaging in long rambling tangents on public timelines about a particular user without explicitly naming them (also known as "subtooting")
- Posting potentially sensitive or triggering toots
- The following types of content are disallowed and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
- Advertising and spam (does not include sharing links to your handmade artisan income sites!)
- Unapproved news bots, post bots or follow bots
- NSFW content
- Pornographic or sexually explicit imagery
- Gore and extremely graphic violence
- Racism or advocation of racism
- Sexism or advocation of sexism
- Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
- Ableism or discrimination against those who are neurodivergent, physically disabled, or mentally ill
- Xenophobia and/or violent nationalism, or advocation thereof
- Sexual depictions of minors, real or fictional
- Content illegal in Germany, France and/or The United States, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
- Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
- handmade.social has a zero-tolerance mandate for harassment or bullying — your account will be immediately suspended.
- Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, impede other users from using the service, degrade the performance of the service, or incite others to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
- Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
- Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called "doxing") will be considered harassment.
- Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called "brigading" or "dogpiling") may be considered harassment.
- Please do not flood the local timeline. We define "flooding" as posting three or more times per five minutes to the local/public timeline (but the definition is flexible; judgements on what is "flooding" or not will be made in context). Flooding drowns out other users and annoys instances we federate with.
- You can reply to the toots of others and banter back and forth as much as you want, as replies aren't shown on the local/public timelines.
- Please avoid posting many pieces of art/media all at once. Sticking to one post per ten minutes (with one-four pictures attached) is a good baseline to follow. Please respect others' content and statuses so that they can discover other artists in the local timeline.
- If you'd like to post long threads of many toots, consider marking the first toot as "public", and the rest in replies marked as "unlisted". This will allow users to click through the first toot to read the rest of the thread without flooding the local/public timelines.
- handmade.social's administration team reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, as well as to remove your data at any time due to inactivity of any duration (to help against future unmonitored accounts from being hacked and becoming spam bots), unethical use, or usage against handmade.social’s CoC/ToS. This includes repeatedly skirting the lines of rules in bad faith without explicitly crossing them, or without attempting to understand and respect the spirit in which these rules were written.
This is not an exhaustive list, and all moderation decisions are ultimately left up to the discretion of our mod team. If any of these don't make sense, please speak with an admin or moderator. We are more than happy to help you understand the problems with these kinds of behaviours.
Copyright
All original content is copyrighted by the artisan and cannot be used without attribution to the artisan.
handmade.social cares about your privacy and doesn't monetize or profit off of your personal information or art — your information is never for sale.
Federation Policy
- Federating with handmade.social is not guaranteed. Links between federated instances are temporary and may change or disappear at any time.
- Other instances may not disseminate our users' original content or toots without credit and proper licensing.
- Other instances may not use automated means to analyze any derived work for publication or profit without handmade.social's users' consent. This includes serving ads next to copyrighted content.
- Public toots are derived works that are protected by copyright.
- This instance honours noindex/nofollow and search engines are not allowed to index content from such users.
- Crawling the content of the instance and creating a database of its posts and content for the purposes of archiving, searching, or analyzing is prohibited. We value our users' privacy and their ability to control how their data is utilized.
- We will block, suspend, or silence any instance which permits any of the content or behaviour prohibited by this instance.
Hosting Information
handmade.social is fully hosted and managed by masto.host.