Infosec.Exchange

Infosec.Exchange is a Mastodon instance with an information security focus but plenty of room for other things. It is one of the more popular Mastodon instances.

Infosec.Exchange is administered by @jerry with help from a team of moderators and some rules.

Infosec.Exchange is hosted on several bare metal machines and costs money to run. You can chip in to offset those costs if you wish to.

You are reading the Infosec.Exchange wiki, which relies on volunteer editors to extend and improve content (join us!)

• Infosec.Exchange Administrator
• How to support & contribute to Infosec.Exchange
• Can I talk about more than just information security?
• I need help!
• Infosec.Exchange hosting
• About Infosec-Exchange
• Moderated and Suspended Servers aka defederated instances
• Moderation Team
• What's the correct way to refer to the instance? Is it Infosec.Exchange or infosec.exchange?
• Operating costs for infosec.exchange
• privacypolicy
• Privacy Policy
• Server Status & Known Issues page
• The About This Server page

FAQs & How-to

Browse the full list of FAQs, or see the categories below:

• The fediverse
• Mastodon
• Post & Share
• Privacy
• Profile
• Read & Discover
• Safety
• Security
• Verification

Instance rules

“Don't be a jerk” covers ~90% of the rules.

• Rule 1: Do unto others as you think they would want done to them.
• Rule 2: Mark sensitive content with a Content Warning.
• Rule 3: Gratuitously obscene content serving no practical benefit to a discussion is not permitted.
• Rule 4: Illegal content such as child pornography, unsurprisingly, is not permitted.
• Rule 5: Spam is not permitted, this includes creating spam accounts that only serve to provide profile links or advertise products and services.
• Rule 6: Hate speech, abusive or threatening behaviour is not permitted.
• Rule 7: Lack of a specific rule does not mean something is permitted.
• Rule 8: Violating one or more of these rules may result in an immediate, permanent ban without notice or warning.
• Rule 9: You may not impersonate a person or brand without a clear indication that the account is unofficial and/or parody.
• Rule 10: No attacks against (or from) the instance

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Recent wiki changes

• Post length and character limit: how long is too long? [Don't force people to scroll past your wall of text] Corrected the link discrepancy (text says rule 5, link says rule 7). Checked with Jerry, should referr to Rule #5. Addjusted accordingly.
• Moderation Team link repair and addition
• Create wiki account & request editor privileges [wiki editor privileges] Added information on where to set up MFA