Last Revised 2025-05-13
The Astral Campgrounds and the Astral.Camp Mastodon server are inclusive spaces which foster empathy, community, and collaboration. Our goal is to create a space for people to feel comfortable calling "home" online, while ensuring that personal expression is celebrated without creating a safe space for hate.
This document serves as a reference for acceptable content as well as moderation protocols on Astral.Camp.
The Astral.Camp server (and all Astral Campgrounds properties) has a zero tolerance policy for the following:
Instances of these behaviors will result in an immediate and permanent ban.
Posted media (video, audio, images, etc) may never include the following content:
Media with the following content must be behind a content warning:
Content warnings outside of those stated in this content policy are up to the discretion of the poster.
The Astral.Camp staff encourage the use of content warnings for difficult topics such as touchy political statements or difficult personal stories. While these topics may be uncomfortable for others, they are also a deeply human, shared experience. We feel that the trust should be placed in the poster to determine when a content warning is necessary on these topics.
Here is a list of common content warnings encouraged by Astral.Camp staff:
politics or country-specific tags such as uspolself harm mentionmental healthgriefAccessibility is table stakes. Images included in posts should be given alt text describing the content of the image. Videos without sound or captions should also be given alt text. If a video has sound and captions, alt text is encouraged but not required.
Astral.Camp is an English speaking server. Users of Astral.Camp are expected to primarily use English in their posts, but are not limited to only using English.
Astral.Camp does not allow derivative/generative AI output in posts. Do not share AI-generated imagery or text in posts on Astral.Camp.
Astral.Camp does not permit AI from reading or training on posts. While we cannot ensure this won't happen due to AI companies not really following the rules, it is explicitly against our policy.
If a user is reported and found to be breaking the content policy, we will issue the following responses as needed:
If you have been banned from Astral.Camp and would like to appeal your ban, fill out the form at https://trail.as/appeal and the Astral.Camp staff will review your ban. Appeal decisions are final.
Astral.Camp immediately defederates upon discovering instances with the following behavior or content:
We may defederate from other servers to protect our community as we see fit. We do not publish a list of our defederated servers at this time.
See also: Camp Standard of Excellence