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Mastodon.design welcomes all makers and designers who love to build things and talk about them. We stand for an open, independent, sustainable, inclusive, and accessible web. Its current admin is @timotheegoguely, the previous one was @mcpaccard (we both speak French and English), and the current moderators are @rafa (English), @lirontocker (German, English and Hebrew), and @isunknown (French, English).
Although there is no registration fee, it would be SUPER nice if you’d drop a few $/€ to support Timothée with the instance hosting costs. This instance is hosted in France on OVH servers via Masto.host (Galaxy Plan + ElasticSearch add-on) for 118.80$/month (many thanks @Hugo for all the good work!) and has a custom domain for 44.45€/year at Infomaniak.com for a total bill of ~1474$/year (~123$/month).
💛 So if you can afford to financially support mastodon.design (tiny monthly donation helps more than one-time ones), you can click the Donate button on Timothée’s Liberapay or Ko-fi page.
⚠️ Our Content cache retention period is now set to 730 days (2 years).
This means that all posts and boosts (reposts) from other servers, and all your bookmarks, favorites, and boosts will be deleted after 2 years.
Need help? Mastodon can sometimes be a strange place for newcomers, but understanding its core concepts and exploring it is also very exciting! Here is a list of guides and resources to help you in your journey:
Did you know that there are lots of different third-party apps for Mastodon? You can find the whole list directly on this official page or explore the curated selection below.
Mastodon.design uses a custom theme with the following features:
Custom CSS works at the instance level, so if you want to use you own custom CSS, you need to use add-ons like Stylus or Live CSS Editor. For example, you can add .layout-single-column .colums-area__panels { flex-direction: row-reverse }
if you prefer to use the single-column layout with the logo and navigation menu on the left, and the search bar and compose form on the right.
If you miss the Twitter X’s user interface, you can use the advanced custom theme Mastodon Bird UI designed by
Roni Laukkarinen.
If you would like to join Mastodon.design or already have, you agree to behave according to our Code of Conduct below:
Please make sure you caption the images you upload. Image descriptions, also called alternative text or alt text, are text descriptions of an image. These descriptions support people who are blind, have low vision, use assistive technology, live in low-bandwidth areas, or want more context. The goal of writing image descriptions is to be clear and concise, while giving more context to your post. Here’s a list of recommendations for writing great image descriptions:
For those who want to improve their knowledge, here are two comprehensive guides on the subject:
Please reduce your images’ size and compress them before uploading. Mastodon automatically downscales images to 1.6 megapixels (enough for a 1280×1280 image) 8.3 megapixels (enough for a 3840×2160 image)* and compresses JPEG and PNG with a quality of 90**, but you can often get much better compression by using free tools like Squoosh (web app), TinyJPG (up to 20 images, works for PNG) or imageOptim (desktop app).
Avoid uploading large animated GIFs, videos, or audio files as much as possible. It takes up a lot of disk space, which means more hosting costs in the end. For videos, you can use the open-source tool Handbrake (this simple guide written by @gauthier will help you if you don’t know how to use it).
You agree to put sensitive topics behind a content warning (CW) (photos must be marked with the eye symbol - after uploading, before posting). Here are a few topics you'd want to CW:
When in doubt, CW. More people than you think can be badly affected by specific topics, or just the current state of our world. If you think that anyone could suffer from reading your content, please hide it behind a Content Warning and mask your pictures.
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in a ban from Mastodon.design:
The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in a ban from Mastodon.design:
Any conduct intended to stalk, harass, or intimidate other users, or to impede other users from utilising the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions is forbidden and subject to punishment up to and including a ban from Mastodon.design.
This can include, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
This Code of Conduct applies both to content and behavior online and to public spaces when an individual is representing Mastodon.design.
Reports of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be made by using the report button. All reports will be reviewed and dealt with as soon as possible. Admins are obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
The Admin reserves the right to revoke any user's content on or access to Mastodon.design at any time, for any reason.