Rambling Readers

Read | Review | Discover

Decentralized

Friendly

Anti-Corporate

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Rambling Readers is a friendly community of book lovers. You can track your reading, talk about books, write reviews, and discover what to read next.

We are a UK based instance of BookWyrm. Anyone is welcome to join and no particular genre is favoured. You can follow and interact with users on other BookWyrm instances and on Mastodon.

We are committed for the long term to the Bookwyrm project, to maintaining the Rambling Readers instance, and to ensuring a responsive and reliable user experience.

Where feasible we use independent small companies to provide and support our instance. This includes Mythic Beasts (Cambridge, UK) for server infrastructure, Prolateral Consulting (Luton, UK) for SMTP (email) services and Cronitor (Berkeley, USA) for server monitoring. Mythic Beasts very kindly provide us with a 25% discount on virtual server and storage fees.

If you have any questions email admin@ramblingreaders.org. Follow us on Mastodon for updates.

Code of Conduct

We want participation in the Rambling Readers community to be a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, colour, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

All members should act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Expected Standards

Examples of behaviour that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

  • Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
  • Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
  • Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
  • Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
  • Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community

Examples of unacceptable behaviour include:

  • The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
  • Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
  • Public or private harassment
  • Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
  • Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

If you are being harassed by a member of Rambling Readers, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the administrator, Marcus Young. He can be found locally at @marcus@ramblingreaders.org or by email at marcus@ramblingreaders.org.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the administrators may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from Rambling Readers.

Updates

The administrators reserve the right to update the Code of Conduct at any time at their discretion. Updates to the Code of Conduct will be communicated to users via email and posts from administrator accounts.

License

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.