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Some ground rules.

These are set and enforced by the fediscience.org moderators.

  1. When signing up, you need to verify you're a scientist! Please provide a link to your ORCID, Scholar, or academic webpage, showing your recent publications. (Junior) researchers without publications, please tell us why you want to join.
  2. Discrimination in any form (including, but not limited to sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia...) is strictly prohibited on the platform.
  3. Harassment, doxxing, or other abusive practices are not allowed.
  4. Posting of content illegal in Germany or the EU is not allowed.
  5. The intentional spreading of disinformation (“fake news”) is not allowed on the platform.
  6. No sexually explicit or violent content allowed.
  7. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
  8. Promotion of pseudoscience is also not allowed.
  9. Respect the Fediverse etiquette: use content warnings for sensible content and describe your uploaded images using alt text.
  10. So that we can moderate the instance, content has to be in a language for which free machine translation (e.g. Deepl.com) is available.
  11. Be kind to your peers! Treat others with empathy and respect.