There still seems to be confusion about our ad-hashtag rules.
So we clarified it again:

Advertising: we follow the rule-of-thumb “Don’t be spammy”. You are encouraged to post announcements of new products and services. However, if repeatedly promoting a product, running a campaign, or announcing discounts/sales, the #ad hashtag must be used. Find more details in our Terms of Service.

We are limited to 300 characters per rule, therefore we go into more details in our Terms of Service.

The maintenance tomorrow morning might take longer than we first expected.

We hope to have everything back on track before noon CET.

The next update will be a big one.
@pirmin will have to update Linux, Ruby and Mastodon. This one won’t be as seamless as usual.

We are planing to do this update to 4.3 on Sunday early morning 22nd of December CET.

It might take about one hour.
Sorry in advance for any inconvenience.

We refined our server rules and terms of service. 📄
Mainly clarifying and simplifying some paragraphs. ❡
The biggest change is unifying #advertisement #advertorial and #advertising under one simple #ad hashtag.

If you have questions about filtering, see @FediTips​: Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji
https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

You can react with emojis in the Admin announcement 📢, or by answering with a public post to the @admin account.

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A Mastodon instance is not a social media platform in the way that centrally owned and managed commercial platforms are. The European Union has made regulatory exemptions for decentralised, non-commercial networks. If you informed yourself about rights and duties regarding social media, note these might not apply here.

We will clarify these points in our Server Rules and Terms of Service. And we are open to discussion: this is the time to speak up with your concerns or questions.

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• If we were to allow free rein on our instance and ignore reports, we would risk our instance and its users getting a bad name and being blocked by other instances. This would not be fair to the majority of our users.

• We have no tolerance for harassment of our users, moderators or admins, whether publicly on Typo.social, in direct messages, via email or telephone, or otherwise. Everyone involved in keeping this instance alive does so out of love for the type community.

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While the admin group of Typo.social does not 100% align with where exactly to draw the line in moderating content, we agree on the following:

• We have neither the resources nor the time to defend our instance in court, so we prioritise the law over our personal opinion. (We consider in this respect the local jurisdictions of our partners and our server location).

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Questions have been raised about freedom of expression on this Mastodon instance.

Generally we welcome free speech and diverse opinions but sometimes we are obliged to take into account external factors. If posts get flagged as problematic—whether by Typo.social users or by users of other instances—, we have a duty to look into such reports.

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