What is Fediverse?The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. On different servers (instances), users can create so-called identities. These identities are able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances because the software running on the servers supports one or more communication protocols which follow an open standard. As an identity on the fediverse, users are able to post text and other media, or to follow posts by other identities. In some cases (such as on Poast), users can even show or share data (video, audio, text, and other files) publicly or to a selected group of identities and allow other identities to edit other users' data (such as a calendar or an address book). fetched from the Fediverse Wikipedia article Feb 8/2021 A great video to watch to get a basic idea of the Fediverse is Fixing Social Media for Good posted by Luke Smith on Jan 13/2021 We actively encourage anyone interested in joining PoastTV consider hosting their own instance for themselves and their friends to ensure the health of the fediverse as a whole. Terms of ServiceBy using this web site, you agree to these Terms of Use, to our Copyright Policy, and to our Privacy Policy. Our Terms of Use are simple:This is our web site, and we will do as we please with it. If you don't like how we run our site, you are free to set up your own., You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, world-wide, irrevocable, no-charge, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute content you post here., We do not promise to preserve anyone's content for any particular length of time. If you want to preserve content (whether your own or someone else's) from this web site, you should download your own copy of that content., You are liable for everything you post. We do not filter or block other instances that do not post illegal content (see below), many of whom post inflammatory comments, pornography and other obscene materials and as such we require you to be 18 years of age or older at signup. If you are not 18 years of age, there are other instances on the Fediverse that cater to younger audiences., Site rulesDo not post anything that would be classified as illegal in the United States., Do not post, request or threaten to post personal information or personally-identifying information ("dox"), whether it is "publicly available" or not. Do not post content that identifies anonymous or pseudonymous people unless they have willingly and publicly published that content themselves. The single caveat to this is users who have aggitated or gone after Fediverse, its health, Poast or it's mods or any of the above. Do not post any links to Google Docs and other known phishing or tracking websites. Creating accounts or services for the express purpose of documenting users, activities or otherwise engaging in stalking behavior will not be tolerated., Do not “fedpost”. This is defined as explicitly violent and possibly credible threats against groups or entities that the US government would classify as “protected”. What constitutes being credible is left up to the discretion of the moderation team. Context will be taken into consideration., Spam of any kind involving posting, deleting, frivolous reports, etc. will not be tolerated., Creating accounts to agitate or otherwise divide the community on various topics are not tolerated., Do not use multiple accounts to circumvent people blocking you or to evade bans, silences or other moderation measures., We do not allow accounts that are solely used to advertise a product or service. The advertisement and/or solicitation of 18+ paysites (OnlyFans, etc) is forbidden., Parody accounts are acceptable, however you must state in your bio that it is a parody or your account will be terminated for impersonation., Keep your profile's avatar and header image "safe for work", since PeerTube doesn't provide the ability to mark these images as sensitive., It is recommended that you mark your post as sensitive when posting media with excessive blood or gore., The posting or streaming of pornography is strictly prohibited. Posting or streaming adult games is allowed provided the stream is marked sensitive., Do not explicity support the MAP or other pedophilic communities including beast., Repeated violations of any of the above rules may result in a ban at our discretion.