Cloud Island is a paid membership instance, and payments are currently handled through the Cloud Island Patreon.
If you can't afford our subscription fee but would like to join anyway, please reach out via the contact information above!
Cloud Island is a paid membership, pro-actively moderated instance. Cloud Island exists because it's important to have locally-owned social networking, a neighbourhood community that's by us, for us, and seeks to resist the systemic oppression that may impact us.
We keep all our data in Aotearoa New Zealand, don't track you, and won't sell your data.
We're charging money to help get to a point where we can pay moderators and developers to improve both Cloud Island and the fediverse as a whole.
"Cloud Island" is a registered trademark of Eiara Limited.
Pride flag emoji on this instance are CC-BY-SA, and can be found on Github.
Blobhaj emoji on this instance are CC-BY-4.0 https://plush.city/@heatherhorns and can be found on this post.
Can of worms, Enbyghost, Transghost, and Breaddab are courtesy of olivvysaur.
The x-ray emoji on this instance is CC-BY-SA 4.0, courtesy of OpenMoji.
The :forg:, :kakapo:, :shramp: and :subtoot: emoji are CC0, courtesy of https://mastodon.art/@Curator/.
The :rss: emoji is GPL licensed, sourced from Wikipedia
The :laserkiwi: emoji was sourced from Mastodon.nz, based on the "Fair use" terms listed on Wikipedia
This instance is proudly hosted in Aotearoa New Zealand, on the Catalyst Cloud.
Version: 1.01
Last updated: 2022-12-01
Cloud Island has a zero-tolerance policy for racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, casteism, and any other forms of discriminatory and bigoted conduct. Nudity, sexually graphic, and violent imagery is not permitted on Cloud Island.
Harassment of other fediverse users is not permitted on Cloud Island.
Misinformation and content harmful to the public good (for example, “5G causes coronavirus” or “vaccines cause autism”) is not allowed and will be removed, and may result in an account suspension.
Sexual harassment is an instant ban.
Far-right content, expression of far-right ideologies, and/or the advocation thereof is an instant ban.
Aside from producing legal nudity or sexually graphic imagery, Cloud Island considers all other conduct performed outside of Cloud Island to be applicable under this Code of Conduct, and users may be reported based on that conduct.
The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of Cloud Island; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
The following types of content will be removed, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
The following types of content are explicitly disallowed, and will result in permanent revocation of access to the service:
The following types of content are explicitly disallowed, will result in permanent revocation of access to the service, and will result in a referral of any and all user-generated content, including all personally identifiable information, to the New Zealand Police Force:
Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilising the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service and/or referral to the New Zealand Police force, at our discretion.
This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviours:
Cloud Island and Eiara Limited prioritise the safety of marginalised people over the comfort of privileged people. As a result, we will not act on complaints regarding, but not limited to:
Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If you are being harassed by a user of Cloud Island, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact Eiara Limited at abuse@cloudisland.nz, or using the ‘Report Post’ or ‘Report User’ feature in Mastodon.
If the person who is harassing you is on the moderation team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will respond as promptly as we can.
This Code of Conduct applies to Cloud Island, but if you are being harassed by a user of Cloud Island outside our Service, we still want to know about it.
We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Cloud Island members, especially our moderation team, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time.
We reserve the right to exclude people from Cloud Island based on their past behaviour, including behaviour outside Cloud Island spaces and behaviour towards people who are not users of Cloud Island.
Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.
These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.