Platform Guidelines

Effective June 30, 2026. Last revised June 30, 2026.

Introduction

Follk exists to foster connection and trust by helping people share what's happening in the places around them. Some of what others share you'll love; some might make you uncomfortable, confused, annoyed, or angry. We want to equip you with tools to filter out what you don't care to interact with. For the most part, we're not interested in being the arbiter of what you can and can't post, and we'd rather hand that power to you wherever it's reasonable. That means you take on some responsibility for protecting yourself and others here.

How Follk Works

A quick note on how Follk works, because it shapes what we can and can't do. Some of what you see lives entirely on Follk — your Sights, your comments, and the rest of your Follk activity. The rest reaches you over the AT Protocol from the wider Bluesky network. We moderate Follk-native content directly. Content from the broader network we can filter and report to the services that moderate it, but it lives on an open network we don't solely control, so it's also governed by those services' rules and labels. When you post to Bluesky through Follk, you're posting to that open network; when you post a Sight, you're posting to Follk.

Rules

So here are a few ground rules to keep things in order.

• Value Safety. Accounts and content that incite violence, or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability, will be removed, and the accounts responsible will be banned.
• Value Privacy and Consent. Don't share personal or confidential information about someone. Don't share intimate or sexually explicit media of someone else without their consent. Sights carry real-world location — be especially thoughtful about exposing where other people are.
• Value Self-Determination. Empower others to choose what they engage with by reporting harmful, mature, or low-value content (spam, clickbait, ads, and the like), and by honestly labeling any mature content you post. When you file a report, be truthful and don't report content maliciously. Inaccurate reports disrespect everyone else's right to decide what they want to see, and users who repeatedly file reports found to be untrue will be banned.
• Protect Children. Don't share or encourage the sharing of sexual or suggestive content involving minors. Any predatory or inappropriate behavior involving a minor is strictly prohibited. These are the most extreme and intolerable offenses on the platform, and we treat them that way.
• Protect the Platform. Don't act to damage the integrity of the platform: filing fraudulent reports, spamming, manipulating engagement or reputation signals, ban evasion, and general trolling all qualify.