Here you can find our guiding principles, rules and perspectives.
Rules
Please follow these rules while using our server:
- Nothing illegal in New Zealand
- Treat others with respect
- No porn / NSFW content
As a rule of thumb, if it’s illegal in your home country then it’s probably illegal in New Zealand too, especially if you’re somewhere in the western world.
Speech
We’ve tried to keep the server rules down to a minimum as we don’t believe in micro managing what people can and can’t say. Please use common sense, treat others with respect and try to be an adult about it.
Communities are free to set their own rules and moderate as they see fit, noting that the general server rules will always apply everywhere.
Your speech is powerful and everything you say has the potential to change someone’s life in unexpected ways. Please try to use this power for good.
Communities
You are welcome to start a new community here as long as you respect our server rules and do so in good faith. Bad faith examples include:
- Spamming new communities
- Starting new communities just to reserve the name
Federation
We will not defederate! We are not currently blocking anyone, nor do we want to be.
Defederating from other instances is an absolute last resort and we will only do so under the following circumstances:
- If their content has the potential to get us into legal trouble
- If they are acting as an attack vector towards us
We also want to avoid being blocked and will work with any instance admin to try and prevent that from happening.
As a user, you have the ability to block any content you dislike and we encourage you to do so. Please do not ask us to defederate from anyone unless they meet one of the conditions mentioned above.
Notices
I run this server in my free time, using my own resources, out of my own pocket.
At the moment I believe I have sufficient resources to suport a lot of growth and see no reason why I should ever have to shut down the server. I am excited about Lemdit and want to see it grow into something beautiful for many years to come.
However, I also can’t see into the future and there is always the possibility that something unexpected will impact my ability to keep running this instance.
My pledge is to be as transparent as possible with you and do my best to resolve any issue that may arise.
If it can’t be resolved, then I will attempt to provide you with at least 30 days notice of the server shutting down, so that you may have enough time to find another home.