This instance is focused around the Tulsa community, and is open to anyone in Green Country and surrounding environs.
Tulsa Social is federated to nearly all instances of the fediverse, which means you can follow pretty much anyone you want, no matter what instance they are on!
While it is open publicly, mind this is just one instance in the fediverse, and we encourage you to look at other instances available to be sure it’s the one you like, and if none please you and you got the knowledge to set things up, why not help the fediverse grow by making your own instance too! The Mastodon Project has a list of other instances available.
Please allow up to two weeks for approval (vacations happen). Most applications should be approved within 24 hours. Just let us know how you're connected to Tulsa or how you heard of us. We're mostly trying to keep it local and keep out spammers.
The first thing a new user is probably going to want to do is go to Preferences, then Other, and set your language settings. This will cause Mastodon to only give you posts in the languages you select, and hide all the other languages.
Next, you'll probably want to follow some people. We have a profile directory, and you can find people by interest in Trunk for the Fediverse.
The short version is:
The details below are largely just to get ahead of any problems. If you can stay within what's going on in the four key points above, you're probably going to be OK.
Failure to respect any of these rules will lead to a warning, content removal, silencing, and/or suspension of your account.
The admins have the absolute right to decide to delete your account at their discretion.
We reserve the absolute right to take any actions regarding any instances that are connected with this instance. If your instance is detrimental to the overall good functioning of the fediverse or Tulsa Social, we will silence or completely suspend it.
You may discuss with the admins if you feel you were unfairly sanctioned (through DMs or by sending us an email if your account is suspended), so long as you don’t try and force your way after the final statement has been decided.
Our host (masto.host) runs backups daily in case of server failure. If we can't continue to operate, we will give you at least 3 months of warning before we go offline permanently.
If actions from users on other instances break our rules, check ifthe rules of the instance to which the user belongs are also broken before activating the "Forward to [instance]" option. You can go to the instance's "about/more" or similar "about" / "rules" sections to check. Instances that do no have any rules listed anywhere are de facto considered as unmoderated and will be suspended, you can specify the unmoderated nature of the source instance in your report.
To the folks at Meow.social for inspiring this server and helping with some boilerplate and advice. Thanks to Seattle Social for the domain name inspiration.
This instance uses Mutant Standard emoji, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.