Code of Conduct

Nether is a small, tight-knit, 18+ community of creatives, intellectuals, psychonauts, and furries. This Code of Conduct applies everywhere Nether gathers — our Matrix server, Forgejo, this wiki, and anywhere else we meet. It exists to keep Nether welcoming, safe, and free — not to police taste. By taking part, you agree to it.

The short version

• Be respectful and act in good faith.
• Stay within the law.
• Label your content and keep it to the right rooms.
• Don’t force your content — or your kinks — on anyone.
• Don’t be an asshole.

Be excellent to each other

Treat fellow members with respect and good faith, even in disagreement. Harassment, hate-driven targeting, threats, stalking, and deliberate cruelty have no place here. We stay small and tight-knit because people look out for one another — keep it that way.

Not a safe space

Nether is explicitly not a safe space. People here disagree — sometimes strongly, especially in political debate — and you do not have a right to be shielded from ideas that offend you. What we do demand is a baseline of respect: argue the idea, not the person. Flame wars, personal attacks, and doxxing are not debate, and they are not allowed.

Creative freedom

Nether is an 18+ community, and we take creative freedom seriously. Art and fiction are welcome here regardless of subject matter — art needs no justification. We are explicitly paraphile-friendly: we don’t police kinks, and we don’t sit in judgment over the themes, characters, or acts depicted in someone’s fiction or artwork. We’re adults, and we know the difference between fantasy and reality.

That freedom comes with two non-negotiable responsibilities:

1. Keep it lawful (see Hard lines below).
2. Label it and contain it. Clearly label the content and themes of your rooms, and keep content where it belongs. A SFW space — a development room, say — is not the place for explicit material. Honor room topics and labels.

And one courtesy: don’t force it on anyone. Sharing your work in an appropriately-labeled space is welcome; pushing it on people who didn’t opt in is not.

Hard lines

Some things are never acceptable, anywhere in Nether:

• Anything illegal. This explicitly includes any sexual content involving real minors (Child Pornography / CSAM) and any sexual or abusive material depicting real people without their consent.
• Our ban does not extend to legal, fictional depictions of such content in art and literature. However, photorealistic depictions that cannot clearly be differentiated from real-life imagery at a glance are not allowed — including AI-generated imagery that isn’t unmistakably fantasy.
• Threats of violence, incitement, or coordinating harm against anyone, inside or outside the community.
• Doxxing, or sharing someone’s private or identifying information.
• Using Nether to harass, stalk, or organize raids against others.

What we don’t allow

Beyond the hard lines above, Nether is not a place for:

• Knowingly spreading misinformation.
• Using the platform primarily to push targeted hatred against — or to celebrate the suffering of — specific groups of people.
• Spam or off-topic advertising.
• Building echo chambers designed to shut out criticism or dissent.

Privacy & anonymity

Respect others’ privacy. Don’t screenshot, leak, or repost private conversations; don’t out people or share identifying details they haven’t shared themselves. Many of us value pseudonymity — protect it, in others and yourself.

Rooms & labeling

• Label rooms with their content and themes (SFW / NSFW / specific subject matter) so members can choose what they walk into.
• Keep content to rooms where it fits, and respect each room’s stated topic.
• Heed the content warnings and labels other members set.

Moderation

Nether has a mod team. We’d rather talk than ban, but to protect the community we may remove content, issue warnings, or remove people — especially for crossing the hard lines or acting in bad faith. Moderation exists to keep Nether kind and safe, not to referee taste. If you think we got something wrong, tell us; we’ll listen.

Reporting

If something needs a moderator’s attention, report it to the mod team. Reports are handled discreetly.

Membership

Nether is invite-based and currently in closed beta; we’re not open for public registration. Membership is 18+. We extend invitations to people with an established, good-faith presence in the communities we’re part of. Bad faith, or crossing the hard lines, ends your membership.

Changes

This Code of Conduct will evolve as the community does. Substantive changes will be shared with members.