Guidelines — 2bit.pics

Post four-shade photography

The whole point is the constraint. Photos here are 128×112 pixels in four shades — shot on a Game Boy Camera, or dithered down to the same format on the way in. Anything that clears that bar belongs, whether it came off real hardware or off your phone.

Don’t use the upload path to smuggle in something that isn’t a photograph — text screenshots, memes rendered as images, ads. If the four shades are carrying words rather than a picture, it’s in the wrong place.

Post your own work

Post photos you took. Reposting someone else’s shot as your own is the one thing that makes a photography community pointless. If you’re posting something you didn’t shoot — a scan from a magazine, a friend’s cartridge dump — say so in the alt text.

Describe your photos

Alt text is optional and you should write it anyway. Four shades at 128×112 are hard to read even for people who can see them clearly; a sentence about what’s in the frame makes your photo work for everyone, screen reader or not.

Be decent to each other

Comments and likes are the whole social surface here, and they’re small enough that one person can sour the place. Criticism of a photo is fine. Going after the person who took it isn’t.

What isn’t allowed

Sexual content involving minors. Reported to the relevant authorities, no warning, no appeal.
Harassment. Targeting someone, pile-ons, threats, or following a person around the site to needle them.
Hate. Attacks on people over race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Someone else’s private information. Addresses, phone numbers, documents, or anything else posted to expose a person.
Sexually explicit photos. There’s no content-warning system here yet, so there’s nowhere to put them.
Impersonation. Presenting yourself as another person or as 2bit.pics itself.
Spam. Bulk posting, engagement farming, or using comments as an ad channel.
Anything illegal where the service is operated.

What happens when something breaks the rules

2bit.pics can stop showing a photo, a comment, or an account. Depending on how bad it is, that’s a single post hidden from the feeds or an account no longer served here at all.

Be clear on the limits of that. Your posts live as records in your own repository on the AT Protocol network, not in a database we own. Hiding something here removes it from 2bit.pics — it does not delete it from your account, and other apps on the network can still show it. Only you can delete your own records.

Reporting something

Email reports@2bit.pics with a link to the photo, profile, or comment and a line about what’s wrong with it. It’s one person reading that inbox, so give it a day or two — and flag anything urgent in the subject line.

If you think something was hidden by mistake, reply to the same address and say so.