Transparency Center

Feeds, recommendations, and the News tab are ranked using the following main parameters, in approximate order of weight:

• Your stated interests selected during onboarding and editable any time from Settings → Interests.
• On-platform engagement signals you generate: upvotes, follows, saves, replies, and dwell time.
• Recency and freshness of the content.
• Quality signals: report rate, downvote ratio, and creator standing.
• Geographic relevance for News and Place pages, derived only from coarse IP-based country/region.

You can switch to a non-personalized chronological feed at any time from Settings → Feed. Disabling personalization does not degrade access to the Service.

Our Community Standards are published in our Terms of Service §4. Threads that exceed defined report or downvote thresholds are automatically hidden pending human review. Decisions are appealable within 6 months by emailing appeals@joinyourspace.org; we target a 14-day response. EU users may additionally refer disputes to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body under DSA Art. 21.

We publish a transparency report at least once every six months covering: total content removals by category, government and law-enforcement requests received and complied with, DMCA / copyright notices received, appeals received and outcomes, automated moderation accuracy metrics, median response times, and account suspensions. The next report is scheduled for publication within six months of this page's effective date; interim summaries are available on request at transparency@joinyourspace.org.

We disclose user information only in response to a valid legal process (subpoena, court order, search warrant, MLAT request, or a properly scoped emergency-disclosure request involving imminent risk to life). Each request is reviewed by counsel; we narrow or challenge overbroad requests. Where lawful, we notify affected users before disclosure. Send legal process to legal@joinyourspace.org and consult our Imprint for jurisdictional contact points.

Any person or entity may submit an illegal-content notice to illegal-content@joinyourspace.org with a substantiated explanation, the exact URL(s), and the submitter's contact details. We prioritize notices from organizations awarded "trusted flagger" status by an EU Digital Services Coordinator.

Authorities & DSCs: dsa@joinyourspace.org
Users: dsa-users@joinyourspace.org
Working language: English (we also accept notices in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch).
Our EU legal representative under DSA Art. 13 is disclosed on the Imprint.

YourSpace does not currently run third-party advertising and does not profile users for ad targeting. If this changes, we will publish a DSA Art. 39 advertising repository and update this section in advance.

YourSpace is an 18+ service. We do not knowingly permit accounts by anyone under 18 and take action to remove accounts we discover to be underage. We do not target the Service to minors, do not show personalized recommendations to users we know to be minors, and do not run advertising profiling on minors, consistent with DSA Art. 28, the UK Online Safety Act, Texas SCOPE Act, Florida HB 3, California AADC, and equivalent laws. See our Child Safety Standards for our full CSAM/CSEA program.

Vetted researchers studying systemic risk on the Service may request access by emailingresearch@joinyourspace.org with proof of affiliation and a research plan.

General transparency questions: transparency@joinyourspace.org. See also our Privacy Policy, Terms, and Imprint.