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title: "Rules, Terms and Privacy for GoToSocial: gay-pirate-assassins.de"
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date: 2022-11-20T04:56:10+02:00
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draft: False
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image: ""
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categories: [english, fediverse, projects]
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tags: [communication, fediverse, services]
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# Rules
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*\"Be excellent to each other\"* is easier said than done, and means
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different things to different people.
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The following rules are a (non-exhaustive) list of behaviours that may
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lead to deletion of toots, silencing or suspension of accounts, at the
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descretion of the instance administrators, as described in our
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[Terms](#terms-of-service)
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Please report behaviour that bothers you. We will keep your report
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confidential.
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-   We do not tolerate discriminatory behaviour and content promoting or
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    advocating the oppression of members of marginalised groups. These
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    groups may be characterised by any of the following (though this
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    list is naturally incomplete):
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    -   ethnicity
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    -   gender identity or expression
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    -   sexual identity or expression
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    -   physical characteristics or age
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    -   disability or illness
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    -   nationality, residency, citizen status
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    -   wealth or education
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    -   religious affiliation, agnosticism or atheism
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-   We do not tolerate threatening behaviour, stalking, and
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    [doxxing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxxing)
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-   We do not tolerate harassment, including brigading, dogpiling, or
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    any other form of contact with a user who has stated that they do
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    not wish to be contacted.
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-   We do not tolerate mobbing, including name-calling, intentional
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    misgendering or deadnaming.
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-   We do not tolerate violent nationalist propaganda, Nazi symbolism or
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    promoting the ideology of National Socialism.
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-   We do not tolerate conspiracy narratives or other reactionary myths
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    supporting or leading to the above-mentioned (and/or similar)
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    behavior.
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-   Actions intended to damage this instance or its performance may lead
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    to immediate account suspension.
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-   Content that is illegal in Germany will be deleted and may lead to
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    immediate account suspension.
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## Best practices
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The list below is a collection of behaviour that we expect to see from
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our users. If you see a user go against these best practices in a way
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that bothers you, please file a report and we will talk to them. While
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these best practices are designed to be guidelines for a good communal
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instance, **repeated malicious unwillingness** to follow the best
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practices will be considered just like breaking a rule.
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-   In general, use the tools provided to foster a considerate and
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    accessible atmosphere. This includes the liberal use of content
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    warnings (especially on potentially disturbing or controversial
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    topics), and alt-text captioning of media files.
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-   When possible, provide credit for creative works in your posts that
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    are not your own.
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-   Uninvited comments about another user\'s personal choices, lifestyle
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    or family are strongly discouraged and may be considered harassment.
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    Inappropriate sexual attention, comments about appearance and
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    implication of physical contact will not be tolerated toward any
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    non-consenting user.
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-   If you post sexual content or gore, use content warnings.
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-   If you post advertisements, use a content warning. Advertisements
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    should not be excessive or automated.
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-   Bots may only interact with a user when they\'re invited by that
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    user to do so.
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-   Automated posts and high-frequency posts should be **unlisted**
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    (rendering visible to everybody, but not appearing on the local
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    timeline) to keep the local timeline of our instance a place of
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    community dialogue and human interaction. This extends to bots, feed
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    posters, Twitter \"retweets\" and Twitter crossposts with broken
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    mentions (\"...@twitter.com\"). Crossposter accounts that stop being
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    active participants in our community may be removed at the
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    discretion of the moderators.
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-   In discussions, please remain civil, do not insult the people
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    you\'re talking to. Note that irony, sarcasm, or similar modes of
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    language don\'t translate well to written language and tend to
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    escalate discussions or misunderstandings.
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*(These best practices were inspired by the Terms of bsd.network. Thank
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you!)*
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## Resources
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I am maintaining this instance on my spare time, hardware and nerves.
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Don\'t push either of those.
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# Terms of Service
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adapted from chaos.social which was in turn adepted by the bsd.network ToS 
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It is our intention that you use this service for personal enjoyment and
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respectful, friendly interaction. To that end, we hope to foster a
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welcoming and inclusive environment.
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The server is privately owned and open to users voluntarily, not a
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public space. Users wishing to join this community are expected to act
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without malice and in good faith. Doing otherwise may lead to removal
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from the service, independent of whether a user violates any rules
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outlined below.
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The administrators and moderators of this instance are
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* [moanos](https://chaos.social/@moanos)
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The server hosting the instance is located in Germany.
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The following statements apply regardless of privacy level and instance
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of the users involved. In rare cases, public or private offline conduct
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or conduct on a separate instance may constitute grounds for removal
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from the service.
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### Policies and Rules
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Our instance is subject to a set of rules governing user behaviour. The
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rules are defined above.
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These rules are designed to maintain a friendly and open atmosphere, and
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to prevent harassment and discrimination. As such, they are a set of
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guidelines, but by necessity incomplete. Users violating the spirit of
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these rules will be treated no differently than users violating a
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specific rule.
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Please note that our rules contain a section on best practices, and
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users who repeatedly and despite warnings disregard these best practices
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may be seen to be in violation of our rules.
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The moderators may remove accounts who spam the instance, or are
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suspected of camping just to reserve an account name. Violation of the
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policies and rules may also lead to account removal at the discretion of
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the moderators.
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### Data Access
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Content on this instance must not be used for the purposes of machine
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learning or other \"research\" purposes without the explicit consent of
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the users involved.
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Content on this instance beyond this page must not be archived or
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indexed wholesale by automated means by any user or service. Active
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users may export their following lists and posts through the export
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provided on their settings page, or the API.
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# Privacy Policy {#privacy}
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### Information collection {#collect}
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-   *Mandatory account information*: Username (always public), e-mail
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    address, and password.
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-   *Optional account information*: Display name, biography, profile
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    information fields, profile picture, and header image. Display name,
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    biography, profile picture and header image will always be public.
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-   *Statuses and interactions*: We retain all your posts including
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    attachments, and other interactions (such as favourites, follows and
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    reblogs). In addition to the content and people involved, we also
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    store the timestamps for all of the listed data entries. If these
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    interactions impact another server (eg. following, boosting, or
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    messaging a user on a different server), this other server will
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    receive all required information. Public, unlisted, and pinned posts
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    are available publicly. Follower-only posts are available to your
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    followers, and direct messages are available to you and all people
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    mentioned in the message. Please note that since we cannot control
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    other servers, this means that we cannot guarantee the privacy
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    status of your messages as soon as they leave our server.
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-   *Cookies*: We use cookies to keep you logged in and save your
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    preferences for future visits.
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-   *Other metadata*: We do log and store your IP address.
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    We retain the name of your browser application to allow you
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    to review your currently logged in sessions for security reasons.
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### Information usage {#use}
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Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following
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ways:
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-   To provide the core functionality of GoToSocial. You can only interact
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    with other people\'s content and post your own content when you are
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    logged in. For example, you may follow other people to view their
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    combined posts in your own personalized home timeline.
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-   To aid moderation of the community -- when a status or account is
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    reported, we will look into the matter as part of our moderation
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    tasks.
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-   The email address you provide may be used to send you information,
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    notifications about other people interacting with your content or
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    sending you messages, and to respond to inquiries, and/or other
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    requests or questions.
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-   To aid debugging and reliable providing service. 
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### Information protection {#protect}
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We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of
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your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your
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personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well
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as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with
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HTTPS, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You
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may enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your
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account.
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### Information deletion and retention {#data-retention}
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You can request and download an archive of your content, including your
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posts, media attachments, profile picture, and header image.
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You may irreversibly delete your account at any time.
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If we judge you to be breaking our instance rules, we may irreversibly
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delete your account at any time.
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### Information disclosure {#disclose}
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Information is not disclosed unless you explicitly permit it. The only
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exception is the provider of our server, who is a trusted and
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unavoidable third party.
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Contacting or permitting contact from a user from a different instance
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implies your consent that the required data is shared with the server in
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question.
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Authorization of a third-party application grants information access
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depending on the scope of permissions you approve. The application may
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access your public profile information, your following list, your
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followers, your lists, all your posts, and your favourites. Applications
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can never access your e-mail address or password.
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# Attribution [¶](#attribution)
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This text was adapted from https://chaos.social/about and is free to be
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adapted and remixed under the terms of the [CC-BY (Attribution 4.0
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International)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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