Community Guidelines

Hollo is a place for people to talk to each other — in spaces, in DMs, in threads, in voice. These guidelines exist so that the conversations on Hollo can stay good ones, and so that everyone can feel safe being themselves here.

Treat the people you're talking to like people. Disagreement is fine; contempt is not. If a behavior would feel out of place at someone's kitchen table, it's probably out of place on Hollo.

Don't target people with insults, slurs, or threats. Don't follow people across spaces, channels, threads, or DMs to keep at them. Don't recruit others to pile on a target.

Repeat targeting of the same person — across alternate accounts, new spaces, or workarounds to your blocks — will be treated as continued harassment and may end in account termination.

Don't dehumanize, demean, or attack people based on protected or identifying characteristics — race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or serious medical condition. This applies to messages, profile fields, space names, custom emojis, and any other surface where content is published on Hollo.

Don't threaten violence against people, groups, or places. Don't promote or coordinate violence. Don't organize, promote, or glorify violent extremism or terrorism, or celebrate those who carry out attacks. Don't post graphic violent content for shock value.

If a credible threat appears in your space, report it. Hollo will act, and where appropriate we will cooperate with the relevant authorities.

Don't post sexual content involving minors — zero exceptions. This includes real, drawn, animated, or AI-generated content, and any grooming or sexualized contact with a minor. We report this content to the relevant authorities under applicable law and terminate accounts immediately and permanently.

Sexual content is not allowed anywhere on Hollo. Don't post sexually explicit or sexual content — photographed, drawn, animated, or written — on any surface, including messages, uploads, links, avatars, banners, custom statuses, bios, emojis, and space icons.

Don't share or threaten to share intimate imagery of someone without their consent.

Don't share someone else's private identifying information without their consent — addresses, phone numbers, government IDs, financial information, private images, or anything else that could expose them to harm.

Don't impersonate another person, brand, or organization in a way that's likely to mislead. Parody and clearly-labeled fan accounts are fine; pretending to be someone you're not in order to deceive people isn't.

Don't spam people in DMs, channels, or threads. Don't blast the same content across many spaces. Don't run scams, phishing, fake giveaways, or pyramid schemes.

Don't use coordinated networks of accounts to amplify content, manufacture engagement, or evade enforcement. Inviting people to a real community is fine. Inviting them to scam them is not.

Don't buy, sell, or trade accounts, spaces, or ranks.

Don't encourage or glorify self-harm or suicide. If you're struggling, or you're worried about someone else, reach out to local emergency services and trusted people in your life.

Don't use Hollo to organize, sell, or coordinate the sale of regulated or illegal goods — drugs, weapons, stolen credentials, malware, and so on. Don't use Hollo to coordinate harm to people or property.

Don't post content you don't have the rights to. That includes pirated or cracked software, game cheats and hacks, leaked or copyrighted media, and other content that infringes someone else's intellectual property.

Don't spread false information that can lead to real-world harm — such as dangerous health misinformation or content designed to mislead people during emergencies.

Don't try to break the platform — no scraping at scale, no exploiting bugs, no probing for vulnerabilities outside of an authorized program. Don't try to evade enforcement using alternate accounts, spaces, or technical workarounds.

If you create or moderate a space, you set the rules within it — within the bounds of these guidelines and applicable law. You manage ranks, permissions, invites, and bans inside your space.

Reports made through Hollo's reporting flows go to the Hollo Safety Team for review. They are not delivered to you as a space inbox. You're still responsible for handling issues that come to you directly through your own moderation channels.

When we find a violation, we may delete the offending message, ban the responsible user from a space, apply a user-level block, change the moderation state of a related report, or initiate account deletion. Severity, scale, intent, and history all factor in.

Some categories — sexual exploitation of minors, credible threats of violence — skip directly to the most serious end of the response.

These guidelines describe the spirit of how we expect people to behave, not just the letter — we may act on conduct that's clearly meant to cause the harms these rules describe, even if it isn't spelled out here. In serious cases, we may also consider relevant off-platform behavior.

If you see something that violates these guidelines, report it. Hollo's reporting flow lives one click away from messages, users, and spaces. Reports are submitted with structured information — a category and subcategory, the profile elements involved, any applicable PII checklist items, an optional note, and a good-faith confirmation. Hollo may capture snapshots of the relevant content at the time of the report so reviewers have the context they need.

Reports go to the Hollo Safety Team. We treat them seriously, and we won't tell the person you reported that you were the reporter.

We may update these guidelines as Hollo grows. We'll update the date at the top when we do.