scicomm.xyz
A community for scientists and science communicators.
United Kingdomage gate 18+
Jurisdictional links
Every jurisdiction this server has any link with, and why. Weights are
ordinal: naming your governing law is a choice, a domain suffix is a purchase.
| jurisdiction | basis | weight | evidence |
|---|
| United Kingdom | names its law | 5 | names "Online Safety Act" in its policies |
| United States | names its law | 5 | names "COPPA" in its policies |
| United Kingdom | origin resolves there | 3 | origin resolves to an IP block there |
| United Kingdom | tracker claim | 1 | a tracker reports hosting there, unverified |
Regulators it has noticed
| regime | signal |
|---|
| COPPA | cites COPPA |
| OSA | cites the Online Safety Act |
Network
- Domain suffix
- .xyz — asserts no country
- Our resolution
- United Kingdom
- Tracker claims
- United Kingdom
- Network
- AS14061 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN
Registration
- Registrar
- DNC Holdings, Inc.
- Registered
- 18 October 2017
- Nameservers
- ns1.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com, ns3.digitalocean.com
Service
- Software
- mastodon 4.6.6
- Monthly actives
- 178
- Total accounts
- 1828
- Registration
- closed
- Minimum age
- 18
Activity
7,531 posts over the 11 completed weeks shown.
| week beginning | posts | logins | registrations |
|---|
| 10 Sep 2026 in progress | 21 | 18 | 0 |
| 03 Sep 2026 | 835 | 137 | 0 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | 821 | 139 | 0 |
| 20 Aug 2026 | 630 | 137 | 0 |
| 13 Aug 2026 | 718 | 146 | 0 |
| 06 Aug 2026 | 686 | 140 | 0 |
| 30 Jul 2026 | 681 | 152 | 1 |
| 23 Jul 2026 | 681 | 140 | 0 |
| 16 Jul 2026 | 624 | 141 | 0 |
| 09 Jul 2026 | 686 | 147 | 1 |
| 02 Jul 2026 | 570 | 140 | 1 |
| 25 Jun 2026 | 599 | 144 | 1 |
Published rules
- Be civil, polite, and respectful in your posts and replies.
- Abide by our rules and behaviour and content standards
- Use the Content Warning (CW) feature for your public posts, when necessary.
- Avoid cross-posters wherever possible.
- No language or imagery which is spam or advertising, harassing, pornographic, violent, xenophobic, nationalistic, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory.
- No bots, i.e. no automated unattended accounts.
- Include a media description (also knows as 'alt-text') with all images and videos that you post.
- Do not use URL shortening services.
- You will not conduct bulk recording or archiving of material from this instance without specific written consent from all users and the administration and moderation team, i.e. do NOT scrape this instance's data.
- >>> IMPORTANT: read this before you register <<<
Other names on this domain
Seen in Certificate Transparency. The estate around a server often says more about who runs it than its own API does.
| hostname | first observed | issuer |
|---|
*.scicomm.xyz | 31 Aug 2026 | YE2 |
media.scicomm.xyz | 24 Aug 2026 | YR1 |
status.scicomm.xyz | 24 Aug 2026 | YR1 |
Observed since this scanner started; earlier certificates are not covered, so absence is not evidence.
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