Supernormal Reads is a queer-focused instance of Book Wyrm. Anyone can join regardless of their gender and sexual or romantic orientation. We welcome any kind of book: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, cooking books, instruction manuals, etc. Queerness lies in the eyes of the beholder. You can follow and interact with users on other BookWyrm instances and on Mastodon. Supernormal Reads is run by Supernormal, a queer literary collective based in Amsterdam. You can find them on Instagram: [@supernormalbooks](https://www.instagram.com/supernormalbooks/?hl=en)
Supernormal Reads
A queer space for queer people reading queer books
Decentralized
Friendly
Anti-Corporate
Privacy Policy
What information do you collect?
- Basic account information: If you register on this server, you may be asked to enter a username, an e-mail address and a password. You may also enter additional profile information such as a display name and biography, and upload a profile picture and header image. The username, display name, biography, profile picture and header image are always listed publicly.
- Posts, following and other public information: The list of people you follow is listed publicly, the same is true for your followers. When you submit a message, the date and time is stored as well as the application you submitted the message from. Messages may contain media attachments, such as pictures and videos. Public and unlisted posts are available publicly. Your posts are delivered to your followers, in some cases it means they are delivered to different servers and copies are stored there. When you delete posts, this is likewise delivered to your followers. The action of boosting or favoriting another post is always public.
- Direct and followers-only posts: All posts are stored and processed on the server. Followers-only posts are delivered to your followers and users who are mentioned in them, and direct posts are delivered only to users mentioned in them. In some cases it means they are delivered to different servers and copies are stored there. We make a good faith effort to limit the access to those posts only to authorized persons, but other servers may fail to do so. Therefore it's important to review servers your followers belong to. You may toggle an option to approve and reject new followers manually in the settings. Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving server may view such messages, and that recipients may screenshot, copy or otherwise re-share them. Do not share any dangerous information over BookWyrm.
Where is your information stored?
The data you post here lives on a cloud server hosted by Hetzner and managed by Supernormal.How do we use your information?
- To provide the core functionality of Mastodon. You can only interact with other people's content and post your own content when you are logged in. For example, you may follow other people to view their combined posts in your own personalized home timeline.
- To aid moderation of the community, for example comparing your IP address with other known ones to determine ban evasion or other violations.
- The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications about other people interacting with your content or sending you messages, and to respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with SSL, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm.What is our data retention policy?
We will make a good faith effort to:- Retain server logs containing the IP address of all requests to this server, in so far as such logs are kept, no more than 90 days.
- Retain the IP addresses associated with registered users no more than 12 months