Community guidelines

Effective date: 14 August 2026

What these guidelines do

Fluxer is for communication and community. These guidelines explain what is not allowed and how we respond when rules are broken. They form part of our terms of service and apply everywhere on Fluxer: direct messages, Communities, calls, profiles, usernames, statuses, custom emoji, and anywhere else people interact or share content.

Communities can set stricter local rules, but cannot permit what these guidelines prohibit. Context always matters. We weigh purpose, audience, severity, pattern, and likely harm, and whether material reads as reporting, education, support, satire, or condemnation rather than promotion.

The basic rule

Treat people with dignity. Behind every username is a real person. Disagreement, criticism, difficult discussion, and unpopular opinions are all allowed. Harassment, exploitation, deception that causes harm, and attacks on people for who they are have no place here.

1. Harassment, threats, and privacy

Do not threaten, bully, sexually harass, stalk, or repeatedly target a person or group. That includes continuing unwanted contact after being asked to stop, blocked, or removed, following someone between Communities or channels to keep an unwanted interaction going, organising or joining a pile-on or coordinated attack, and encouraging or directing others to harass or harm a target on Fluxer or anywhere else.

Do not reveal or threaten to reveal personal information without explicit consent, including real names, home addresses, workplaces, phone numbers, email addresses, financial information, government-issued identification, or anything else that could be used to locate, contact, or identify someone against their will. Combining technically public information to target a person can still be doxxing.

Do not capture or share intimate material without the depicted person's explicit consent. That covers voyeuristic recordings, manipulated media, realistic synthetic imagery, and threats to publish intimate content as blackmail or punishment. Do not record calls where the law requires consent, invasively monitor someone's use of Fluxer, or defeat privacy settings, blocks, or safety features. Do not share screenshots, recordings, or other material from a private conversation without consent where doing so is likely to cause harm or is done to harass.

When we assess these cases, we weigh repetition, duration, severity, power differences, the target's expressed boundaries, and the effect on their ability to use Fluxer safely. An honest misunderstanding that stops when corrected is treated differently from deliberate conduct.

2. Hate and discrimination

Do not dehumanise, demean, exclude, or incite hatred or violence against people because of who they are. Protected characteristics include race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, national origin, ancestry, immigration or citizenship status, caste, religion or lack of religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, sex characteristics including intersex status, disability, health condition, neurodivergence, age or generational status, pregnancy, parental status, veteran or military status, socioeconomic or housing status, and physical appearance, including body size. Comparable targeting based on identity can also fall under this rule.

The most serious violations are calls for violence, killing, or physical harm against a protected group, calls for discriminatory exclusion, segregation, or denial of fundamental rights, treating a group as subhuman by comparing its members to animals, insects, disease, filth, or objects, and denying or celebrating the Holocaust, other genocides, or other well-documented atrocities targeting a protected group. These are removed immediately and normally lead to account suspension or termination. Assertions that a group is inherently inferior or lesser, hateful stereotyping presented as inherent traits, contempt or disgust expressed towards a group as a whole, slurs and derogatory terms, and celebratory or affirming use of imagery, memes, or symbols historically associated with hatred of a protected group are also prohibited. They are removed and handled proportionately, normally starting with a warning for a first violation and escalating for repeat offences. A Community may limit membership by a protected characteristic where the Community's purpose requires it, for example a women's support group.

Fluxer is and will remain a safe and affirming place for LGBTQ+ people. It is prohibited to deliberately and repeatedly misgender someone once you know, or could readily find out, their name and pronouns, to use someone's deadname to harass, demean, or invalidate their identity, to out someone's sexual orientation, gender identity, or intersex status without their explicit consent, to promote conversion therapy or explain how to carry it out however it is framed, to sexualise or fetishise LGBTQ+ people in a degrading or objectifying way or treat their identities as inherently sexual, deviant, or predatory, and to deny the existence or validity of someone's identity in order to demean them or advocate discrimination, including claims that being transgender is a mental illness, a delusion, or something to be cured. Honest mistakes corrected in good faith are not violations.

Good-faith discussion of gender-affirming healthcare, policy, medical evidence, personal experience, and detransition is allowed, including critical views. Sharing medical information consistent with the consensus of major medical organisations, peer support, resources, and advocacy for access to care are all welcome. The line is crossed when medical or scientific framing becomes a pretext for harassing people, degrading them for their identity, or promoting conversion practices, or when established medical consensus is deliberately misrepresented to deny an identity or discourage evidence-based care.

Reclaimed language used by members of the relevant group, about themselves or within their own community, is generally allowed and is assessed in context. Academic, educational, journalistic, and documentary treatment of hate and atrocity is allowed when it informs, analyses, or condemns without promoting hatred. Counter-speech is protected, including quoting hateful material in order to condemn it. Genuine satire may be allowed when it critiques prejudice, power, or ideologies rather than targeting the people they harm.

3. Violence, extremism, and self-harm

Do not threaten or encourage violence, give actionable instructions for harming people, glorify real-world violence, or share real-world graphic depictions of violence, gore, mutilation, or animal cruelty. Media presented as real is treated as real, however it was generated or edited.

Non-graphic journalistic, documentary, educational, and historical treatment of difficult subjects is allowed when it is appropriately framed, carries clear content warnings, is age-restricted where likely to be distressing, and does not glorify or encourage the violence discussed. Fictional and artistic depictions of violence, such as drawings, animation, game content, and horror, are allowed in age-gated spaces with clear content warnings, provided they are not presented as real, do not glorify real-world violence or target a real person, and are not so extreme that shock is their only purpose.

Do not recruit for, support, praise, instruct, fund, or coordinate terrorism or violent extremism, and do not share its propaganda, manifestos, or instructional material. Legitimate reporting, research, historical analysis, counter-extremism work, and artistic expression are allowed when they do not themselves promote or facilitate violence. Where we receive a valid removal order under Regulation (EU) 2021/784, we remove or disable access to the identified content within one hour and preserve it and related data for six months, or longer where applicable law requires, and such content may be reported to law enforcement where the law requires or permits.

Do not encourage, glorify, gamify, or give instructions or methods for suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders, do not pressure or challenge anyone to harm themselves, and do not share graphic depictions of self-harm. Supportive conversation about mental health is allowed and welcome, including personal experience, emotional support, recovery and coping, and pointers to professional help. Nobody is punished merely for saying that they are struggling. When content suggests someone may be at imminent risk, our priority is connecting them with support, which can mean linking crisis resources, placing content warnings, and in urgent cases taking steps to help keep the person safe.

If someone appears to be in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first, then report the content through the in-app tools or the safety route on our company information page. We respond to safety reports as promptly as we can, but Fluxer is not a substitute for professional care or emergency services. International support is available through Befrienders Worldwide. In Sweden, Mind can be reached on 90101 and BRIS, for children and young people, on 116 111. In the United States, call or text 988. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Samaritans answer on 116 123, and many EU countries offer emotional support on the same number. For text support, text HOME to 741741 in the US, SHOUT to 85258 in the UK, CONNECT to 686868 in Canada, or 50808 in Ireland.

4. Sexual content and protection of minors

Child sexual exploitation is prohibited without exception, and these are among the most strictly enforced rules on Fluxer. Do not create, request, possess, share, promote, or facilitate child sexual abuse material or any sexual or sexually suggestive material involving a real minor, in any medium, including realistic synthetic or manipulated imagery indistinguishable from photographs of real children. Do not facilitate grooming, sex trafficking, or any sexual interaction intended to exploit a minor. Child sexual exploitation results in immediate and permanent account termination and a report to law enforcement as the law requires.

Sexual or sexually suggestive depictions of fictional characters who are explicitly described as minors, or who are unambiguously depicted as prepubescent, are prohibited in all spaces, including drawn, animated, written, and AI-generated content. We assess the totality of context: stated age, narrative framing, visual presentation, and setting. This rule does not apply to material that does not sexualise a minor, such as non-sexual coming-of-age stories, survivor accounts, educational material, and serious artistic or literary treatment of difficult subjects.

Do not groom a minor, whether or not explicit content is ever involved. Grooming includes building inappropriate emotional or sexualised intimacy with a minor, isolating them from trusted adults or support, gradually introducing sexual topics or material, asking for personal information, images, or private communication in a sexualised context, and offering money, gifts, or special treatment in exchange for personal information or intimate interaction. Users under 18 must not engage with, share, or take part in sexual or sexually suggestive content on Fluxer, including in age-gated spaces.

Consensual adult sexual content is allowed only in clearly marked 18+ Communities or channels, and Community owners are responsible for applying appropriate age restrictions. Adults may exchange consensual explicit content in direct messages without a public age label. Once it becomes apparent that either person is a minor, any further such content is a violation, and, as Section 1 already provides, sending explicit content to someone who has not consented to receive it, or whose consent has been withdrawn, is sexual harassment. Do not facilitate sexual exploitation, trafficking, or coercion, and do not threaten to publish intimate content as blackmail, punishment, or intimidation. Sexual exploitation is reported to law enforcement.

5. Illegal and dangerous activity

Do not use Fluxer to carry out or facilitate fraud, phishing, scams, malware distribution, unauthorised access, cyberattacks, money laundering, terrorist financing, trafficking, trade in illegal goods or substances, sanctions evasion, or other unlawful activity, and do not use another person's intellectual property without permission where the use is systematic or clearly abusive.

Discussion, news reporting, safety research, education, and harm reduction are not prohibited merely because the subject is unlawful or dangerous. What matters is whether the content meaningfully enables, coordinates, or promotes the activity. We may cooperate with law enforcement where the law requires it, or where necessary to protect people from serious harm.

6. Spam and service abuse

Do not send spam or bulk unsolicited messages, create fake or deceptive accounts, misleadingly impersonate people or organisations, manipulate member or reaction counts, buy or sell accounts or Communities, abuse Fluxer as unlimited file storage, scrape or harvest data in bulk, evade limits, use the service as a load-testing target, or automate activity in ways that disrupt normal use. Clearly labelled parody or roleplay is allowed when it is not used to deceive or harm.

Automation is allowed only where Fluxer permits it and it complies with the law and these rules. Fraudulent chargebacks and deliberate payment abuse can lead to enforcement, but a genuine dispute about an incorrect or unauthorised charge never will.

7. Harmful deception and manipulated media

Do not deliberately spread a demonstrably false claim that is likely to cause serious and concrete harm by endangering public health or safety, interfering with democratic processes or civic participation, causing direct physical harm to people or communities, or damaging critical infrastructure or essential services. We weigh accuracy, evidence, likely impact, intent, presentation, and whether people are likely to act on the claim.

Opinions, political advocacy, satire, clearly labelled speculation, good-faith debate, and discussion of contested or evolving research are all allowed. This rule targets deliberate, harmful deception, not disagreement, and Fluxer does not police opinions or enforce one approved viewpoint. Sharing medical information about gender-affirming care that aligns with established medical consensus, advocating for access to it, and describing personal experience of it are never treated as misinformation, as Section 2 explains.

AI-generated and digitally manipulated media are allowed for creative, fictional, educational, and satirical use when they follow the rest of these rules. Do not use them to deceive, defraud, harass, sexually exploit, or deceptively impersonate anyone, do not present them as authentic evidence of an event that did not happen, and do not use them to get around these guidelines. Where synthetic material could reasonably be mistaken for authentic, labelling it is strongly encouraged, and unlabelled material that causes harm or confusion may be treated more seriously.

8. Reporting

If content or behaviour appears to break these guidelines or the law, report it through the in-app tools or the safety route on our company information page. Include the material, its location, the account involved, and enough context to understand what happened. Share only what is needed. Screenshots often capture more than you intend, so crop or blur unrelated personal information, and remember that photos can carry hidden EXIF metadata such as GPS coordinates, so prefer screenshots or strip the metadata first.

Do not retaliate. Harassing, threatening, or doxxing someone in response to their violations is itself a violation, even when they broke the rules first, and malicious, knowingly false, or coordinated misuse of the reporting tools is too. Report the issue and let our moderation team handle it.

Every report is reviewed in good faith. We confirm receipt and tell you once the report has been dealt with, and reports involving imminent danger to life, child sexual exploitation, or credible threats of serious violence get the highest priority. We do not say what action was taken against another person's account, because that is their personal data.

Reports are confidential to the reporter. The statement of reasons sent to an affected user identifies the content and the rule at issue, never the reporter, and we do not pass on your username, user ID, email, or any other identifying detail. The only narrow exceptions are where a court, regulator, or other binding legal process compels disclosure, or where you chose to identify yourself in the report, and in either case the safeguards in our privacy policy apply.

The Digital Services Act's trusted flagger rules are written for larger platforms than ours, but entities designated under Article 22 can use the legal route on our company information page and their reports are prioritised.

9. Enforcement and appeals

Depending on severity, context, and risk, responses to a violation can include a warning, content restriction or removal, temporary feature limits, loss of Community privileges, temporary suspension, permanent account termination, restriction or removal of a Community, adjustment of related paid benefits, and reporting of illegal content or credible threats to law enforcement or other appropriate authorities where the law requires it or where necessary to protect people from serious harm, as our privacy policy describes.

We weigh severity, actual and potential harm, intent, history, the risk of repetition, effects on minors and vulnerable people, cooperation, and mitigating context such as a genuine misunderstanding or immediate self-correction. A less serious first violation normally starts with a warning, content removal, or a temporary restriction and escalates if it repeats. Child sexual exploitation, credible threats of serious violence, severe fraud, malicious cyber abuse, terrorism, and similarly egregious conduct can lead to immediate and permanent action.

Enforcement decisions are made by people, not by automation alone. Automated systems may flag content for review, spam and abuse defences may temporarily block actions pending review, and regional access restrictions based on IP geolocation operate automatically, as our privacy policy describes.

When we apply a measure to your content, Community, or account, you receive a clear and specific statement of reasons: what was done, the guideline or legal ground, the facts relied on, whether automated means were used, and how to challenge it, including the out-of-court route for EU users. Detail may be limited only where providing it would put someone at risk, compromise an investigation, or breach a legal duty.

You can appeal free of charge through the route on our company information page, from the email address on the affected account where possible, within 60 days of receiving the enforcement notice. Explain why you believe the decision is wrong, incomplete, or disproportionate, and include relevant context or evidence. One appeal is available per decision, duplicates do not speed anything up, and temporary measures normally stay in place during review. We respond as promptly as volume and complexity allow. If a review shows a measure should not have been applied, we reverse it promptly and put right any paid benefit that was affected, and we may reopen a concluded decision if material new information emerges or these guidelines change in a relevant way.

If you are in the EU and remain unsatisfied after our internal appeal, you can refer an eligible moderation dispute to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body. A list of certified bodies is available through the Digital Services Coordinator in your Member State. Those rules were also written for larger platforms, but we engage with any certified body you select in good faith, after or instead of our internal route.

10. Younger users and Community owners

You must meet the minimum age for your country, generally 13 and higher in some places, as listed in our minimum age guide. Users under 18 may get stricter defaults, tighter privacy settings, and limits on age-restricted features. Communities centred on dating or romantic relationships between minors, or that sexualise minors in any way, are prohibited. If you are under 18, be particularly careful about sharing personal information, and never meet an online contact in person without involving a trusted adult.

If you run a Community, you are responsible for the content and behaviour within it, including moderation practices. Set clear, visible rules, enforce them fairly, and use the moderation roles, content controls, and age gates available. Community rules can be stricter than these guidelines but never more permissive. A Community that repeatedly permits serious violations may be restricted or removed, and the administrators responsible may face account action too. If you are unsure how to handle a safety issue, report it or use the safety route on our company information page.

Parents and guardians with concerns about a young person's account can use the support route on our company information page. We may need to verify the relationship before discussing a specific account. If a child is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first, then let us know.

11. Changes and contact

We may update these guidelines as Fluxer, community risks, or the law change. Every update is recorded in our changelog.

A change is material when it is adverse to you, meaning it prohibits or restricts something these guidelines previously allowed or increases the consequences attached to a violation. Material changes take effect no earlier than 30 days after we notify you by email, in the app, or both, except where a faster change is needed to address a serious or emerging harm or to comply with the law, in which case we announce it at the time and explain why. Where it is genuinely unclear whether a change is adverse, we treat it as material. Clarifications, new protections, and editorial improvements take effect when published, and significant ones are announced rather than left to the changelog alone.

When we update these guidelines alongside our terms of service or privacy policy, we ask you to confirm that you have reviewed and agreed. If you do not accept an update, you can stop using Fluxer and delete your account at any time.

We plan to publish voluntary transparency reports on our website covering the preceding calendar year: content moderation, automated tools and their accuracy, complaints and outcomes, and orders from authorities.

All support, safety, appeal, and legal routes are on our company information page. If you are unsure whether something breaks these guidelines, ask before posting. Most people on Fluxer never run into these rules at all. Fluxer is for everyone, regardless of who you are, who you love, how you identify, where you come from, or what you believe, and everything here exists to keep it that way.