You must be at least 13 years old chronologically to sign up, per internet regulations.
All NSFW must be marked NSFW. Please refrain from posting explicit NSFW in non-NSFW communities unless you have good reason.
Nothing illegal under US (specifically Nevada) or local law. You know what that includes. (In case you don’t know what that includes, I mean child pornography [anything that fails the Dost Test], sexually interacting with minors, etc.) We have a zero tolerance policy for anything that fails the Dost test. Anything violating it will result in an immediate ban and removal of images. No admitting to anything that could cause the server to go under investigation, such as looking at child porn.
No transphobia. This is intended for radqueer transid identities, but also goes for more socially accepted identities.
No paramisia. Users of all contact stances are permitted.
No being discriminatory in general. This includes using slurs in a derogatory manner. Including but not limited to: racism, sexism, ageism, speciesism, homophobia, the aforementioned transphobia and paramisia, and anything else that discriminates against others for any reason.
No doxxing. No sharing IRL names, addresses, details, or anything at all about someone that they haven’t cleared as okay to share.
No being malicious. No trolling, no spamming, no hate speech, etc.
Be nice. Be civil in discussions and disagreements, respect boundaries if someone asks you to stop doing something, etc.
If unsure, ask an admin! Depending on the severity of the rule you’re breaking you’re subject to anything from a warning, to a full-on ban. If you do something bad that’s not against the rules you usually won’t be punished the first time, but repeat offenses might invoke consequences. Best way to avoid that? Ask! If you’re unsure about whether or not something might break a rule, or if you want to see if an exception can be made, then feel free to ask a mod!

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A big thank you to Rae and Yuki for helping me with some of the technical things behind the website! I couldn’t have done it without them. (They didn’t know what kind of website I was making, just that I was making a Lemmy instance.)

Note: Lemmy is NOT a finished product; as such, our instance isn’t perfect and is pretty buggy sometimes. Please let me know if there are any problems. For info on Lemmy, visit https://join-lemmy.org/. Be weary when enabling 2FA; it’s been known to not work and lock users out of accounts. If this happens I can let you back in, but it’s a hassle. Currently it seems like 2FA just plain doesn’t work.

Also, please upload links to images when you can that way the server storage isn’t taken up as quickly. Pictures uploaded are not automatically removed when references to them (such as posts) are removed, so consider any picture you upload as permanent and publicly accessible. We are working on ways to purge unused images, but still remember to be careful about what you post online.

We also have a Matrix Synapse homeserver! It’s at https://matrix.rqd2.net, but when you’re choosing your homeserver on a client you just enter rqd2.net.