TERMS

the whole thing

so called life is a small social network run by one person. by using it you agree to the things below. if any of them feel wrong to you, the answer is to not use the site. there's a delete-account button at the bottom of account.

eligibility

you must be at least 18 years old. there is a date-of-birth field at signup and posting is blocked until you've confirmed your email. this isn't a content rating — there is nothing here a child shouldn't see. it's a policy: we don't think social media is good for kids.

we don't knowingly keep accounts for anyone under 18. if you find one, tell @onion and it'll be gone within a few days. accounts created before this policy took effect are grandfathered.

your account

• your handle, email, and password are yours. don't share them. we won't ask for them outside the login flow.
• you're responsible for what gets posted from your account. if it gets compromised, the fastest fix is the password reset.
• one person, one account. don't pretend to be someone you're not. parody and persona accounts are fine if it's clear they're not the real person.
• impersonating a real person, a public figure, or an organization will get the account removed.

what you can and can't post

the long form is at community standards. the short form:

• don't post: harassment, threats, doxxing, csam, non-consensual intimate images, content that promotes self-harm to a specific person, instructions for hurting people, spam, malware, schemes.
• don't do crimes: the site won't help you. illegal content gets removed. for serious things (csam in particular) we will preserve evidence and cooperate with law enforcement under valid legal process.
• don't be a dick. there's a lot of room in "don't be a dick."

you keep ownership of what you post. you grant so called life a non-exclusive license to display it on the site (which is, you know, the whole point of posting it).

our enforcement

moderation is one person, hand-done, slow, fair. there is no algorithm pushing content; there's no algorithm pulling it down either. typical sequence when there's a problem:

1. a post gets removed or an account gets suspended.
2. you get an email at the address on file explaining why.
3. you can reply to that email to appeal. one human reads it.
4. egregious or repeated violations end the account.

your privacy

covered in detail at privacy. short version: we store the minimum to make the site work. we don't sell or share your data with advertisers. there are no advertisers.

no warranty, no liability

so called life is provided "as is." it runs on a $5/month shared host. it could go down. data could be lost (we back up nightly but we are not your backup of record — for anything you can't lose, keep your own copy via the /u/<handle>/feed.rss per-user feed).

we are not liable for any damages arising from your use of the site, except to the extent the law won't let us disclaim. if where you live requires certain warranties, those apply by force of law and these terms don't try to undo them.

changes to these terms

if these change in a way that affects your rights, we will post about it from @onion and update the date at the top of this page. continued use after that counts as agreement.

contact

anything legal, abuse-related, or governmental: send @onion a friend request and post about it; if you can't post (banned, deleted, etc.) we'll publish a contact email when the operator finds time to set one up. for now the @-mention is the channel.