Hello, QOTO users, admins and mods!

I'm a Brazilian tech-savvy developer (actually, DevOps) and I'm also a writer-in-my-spare-time with an open and highly-active mind blending STEM, philosophy and esoterical beliefs (I'm an occult practicioner).

I was looking for Mastodon instances that:
- Allowed for more than 500 chars
- Welcomed writing styles such as surreal, Lovecraftian, esoteric, goth (not gore: goth/gothic) and stream-of-consciousness
- Welcomed illustrative AI imagery
- Had good federation with the majority of instances.

My search led me here, qoto.org. I can see that the char limit is indeed good and large (2^16-1). However, although the "About" states that QOTO is a instance "free to talk about whatever you want, say whatever you want, as long as it is legal, follows our rules, and you engage respectfully", does the instance really allow for AI imagery (which I often properly tag as "aiart") illustrating human-written "dark" (i.e. lovecraftian, memento mori and goth) poetry/prose (also properly tagged)?

I'm asking because generative AI arts are sometimes prohibited in places that see generative arts as "plagiarism" and "unethical" and, as much as I have a very open mind and positive views about AI, I can totally understand negative and critical opinions about them.

Same goes for "dark texts", depicting Lovecraftian-like cosmic forces, potentially triggering and sensitive concepts to some audiences, such as stories featuring demonic/dark divine entities (e.g.: Lilith/Kali, The Dark Mother Goddess) and nihilistic, surrealist and "memento mori". While I embrace the dark aspects of the cosmos, I totally understand that there are a sensitive aspect on them (not gorey or explicit texts, tho).

Finally, I'm asking because I want to unleash my hybrid (human texts with AI imagery) creativity while respecting the local (instance) rules.

I already have Mastodon account across two instances, one specifically for generative AI arts (where I post short poetry/prose I wrote, followed by AI imagery I generated) and other general-purpose (where I focus to post just the text without images), but both instances default to the standard 500 chars, while some of my texts (stories and chronicles) sometimes exceed 500 characters.

Finally, as per "about", I'm tagging admin: "Please don't hesitate to Direct Message me ( @freemo ) or tag me in Toots (what we call tweets here) if you have any questions"

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