Icesynth!

Beep! A small instance themed around synths, but accepts all. Not to be confused with our Sharkey instance.

Table-of-Contents

Instance information
Features
Rules
Alternative frontends
Tips & Tricks
Bubble timeline
Moderation

Instance information

This is our Iceshrimp.NET instance, managed by @sneexy. This is our general information page about our instance, most info here is shared with our Sharkey instance. You're most likely here because you've attempted to visit beeping.synth.download without an account/signed out. Try logging in, then go back to access the Iceshrimp frontend!

Iceshrimp is a "microblogging"-based social networking software that connects over ActivityPub to federate over the internet with other AP-based software and instances in the world such as Mastodon. Iceshrimp mostly follows the footsteps of Misskey, and supports most features that Misskey and other software chooses to implement - Quote posts, Emoji reactions and all.

We have a sibling Sharkey instance running over at booping.synth.download if a full Misskey based experience is more your speed.

This instance is invite only to ensure that things don't get out of control here, in terms of both becoming a moderation hassle and requiring heavy maintenance, as well as ensuring this instance continues to run smoothly and for the foreseeable future.

If you would like to register, and are a well-known creature of, please go beep at @sneexy! You may also ask anyone else on this instance to vouch for you. Invite codes/Acceptance is not always guaranteed, but feel free to ask. Please don't let this be discouragement for asking.

We have a Signal group chat for general, random discussion as well as having direct contact with instance admins, and to serve as a place for any direct or maintenance announcements.

Features

What users receive in terms of differences from, for example here, the average Mastodon instance:

Quote posting
Emoji reactions
Most Misskey features: cat ears/speaking as a cat, "Drive" management for files, etc.
100,000 character limit
200 megabyte upload limit, per file

Rules

Our rules are also displayed on our instance registration page. These rules also apply to remote instances/federation. If any are found breaking these rules that aren't on our instance, report it.

No Nazi's, racism, homo/trans/queerphobia or bigotry of any kind. Hate speech is not allowed.
In addition to above, no pedophilia, zoophilia and all other related labels/content. We have no tolerance for that at all.
No illegal content such as child pornography or any (including fictional) equivalents (e.g. lolishota).
Properly use content warnings when posting. Apply a content warning to anything, such as NSFW content and politics. Reclaimed slurs may be left without a content warning.
Don't harass people if there is no valid reason, block/report and move on.
We encourage adding alt text onto media. Not required, but recommended.
Basically: Just use common sense. And don't give me any reason to add more rules onto here, please.
beep merp rawr :3

Alternative frontends

Currently, the built in Iceshrimp.NET frontend is pretty unfinished and not very usable for daily usage. We provide other frontends that give better usage for use with Iceshrimp. Alternatively, Iceshrimp also implements direct Mastodon-API compatibility, so you may bring or use your own Mastodon clients as well!

Iceshrimp.NET • The default frontend, requires to be logged in directly to Iceshrimp before being accessible. Required to be used if you want to change some of your profile settings. For other options, refer to the two last options of this list.
Mastodon • The Mastodon frontend based off of the Chuckya fork with extra support for Iceshrimp based features, the most stable/recommended. Source
Akkoma • The Akkoma frontend with extra support for Iceshrimp based features. Source
Phanpy • Opinionated, minimalist Mastodon client, works well with Iceshrimp. Enable the Akkoma flag for proper support with Emoji reactions. Source
pl-fe • Another Mastodon-compatible client, works well with Iceshrimp. Source

Swagger • Special frontend for directly interacting with the Iceshrimp API. Required to enable/modify some settings with your account.
scalar • A fancier, more advanced alternative to Swagger.

Tips & Tricks

A few notable, useful worth-sharing tips & tricks for Iceshrimp users. You may also suggest any to be added here.

Remove all inaccessible followers-only replies

Iceshrimp.NET, by default, will show all replies, including those that are replies to posts that are inaccessible to you, even if you aren't using the default frontend. For most users, this is unwanted behavior.

To disable it, first:

Enter your account settings
Click the "Account" tab on the left
Find and enable "Filter replies to inaccessible notes"

This should disable them on the official frontend. However, if you use a custom/alternative client, they may still show up via "RE: 🔒" posts. To disable these, we simply put a custom word filter:

Enter your account settings
Click the "Filters" tab on the left
Create a new filter.

The Filter Name is required, but can be whatever. Name it something like "Disable inaccessible replies".
For the keywords, simply type in "RE: 🔒" (without the quotation marks) then press the "Add" button below it.
Set the Filter Action to "Hide".
Add everything from the "Filter Contexts" list.
Set the expiry date to whatever in the future, like 09/09/9999 for example.

After that, all inaccessible replies shall now vanish.

Emoji reactions in Phanpy

The Phanpy frontend has some support for emoji reactions. Specifically though, only showing them in notifications.

To enable support for at least showing them rather than displaying a broken notification for each reaction, simply log into Phanpy again with the "This app is intended for Pleroma or Akkoma" flag enabled.

Bubble timeline

Our instance is configured with a curated timeline of hand-picked instances that we deem to be a part of community of, or are great friends. Below is the entire list of of all instances configured in our Bubble timeline.

Moderation

For all of our Fediverse instances that we manage, we do moderation on our own.

We have little spoons to deal with anything and tend to take action swiftly. We moderate based on the usual:

Suspending instances that consists of having communities/a majority of users who are either entirely horrible users or heavily radiates "Bad Vibes", including those that includes users who own opinions that we don't all necessarily agree with or could cause harm to others
Suspending instances that purposefully modifies federation in malicious ways (e.g. ignoring deletes, converting non-public posts to public on their end)
Suspending instances that have "the obvious"; anything that goes against our own rules
Silencing or marking instances as NSFW that don't have rules set on marking content properly (e.g. politics or NSFW media)

We may also Suspend those that simply federate with related instances as it's too much of a risk to continue federation with those suspected of unwanted/problematic behavior, especially if it's very obvious

Silencing or marking instances as NSFW that consists of heavy amounts (and to "Only") of "Irony-poisoned" or "racism funny" posting.

Other instances that aren't inherently bad, but also constantly consists of any type of behavior that isn't worth full blown suspension will usually have other actions done to them as well (marked as NSFW, Silenced, etc.).

If you'd like to question anything about our moderation or about a specific instance, feel free to ask us about it. If you find something that goes against our rules or should have action taken against, then report it (whether it's local or remote content).

To view our blocklists and other moderation configurations here, along with reasons, please refer to below:

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Silenced instances

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Blocked instances

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