Community Guidelines

Version 1.0.0 · Updated at August 31, 2026 · Effective from August 31, 2026

Niche Music is built around discovering music, sharing what you like, and connecting with other people.

We want people to be able to express themselves freely, joke around, debate things, criticize music, make art, and talk about difficult topics. But that freedom doesn't extend to seriously harming other people, exploiting them, scamming them, or making Niche unsafe to use.

These Community Guidelines explain what is and isn't allowed on Niche Music.

They apply to content and activity across Niche, including:

Context matters for some rules. Content that would normally be restricted may sometimes be allowed when it has clear artistic, educational, documentary, newsworthy, medical, historical, protest, or awareness value.

Other rules, particularly those involving child sexual exploitation, have no such exception.

1. Be a Normal Person

At the most basic level, don't use Niche to deliberately make other people's experience miserable.

Disagreement is fine. Criticism is fine. Not liking someone's music is fine.

Targeted abuse isn't.

We don't allow behavior such as:

The severity, frequency, context, and power differences between the people involved may affect how we handle a situation.

Safety

2. Threats and Violence

Do not use Niche to threaten, encourage, organize, or celebrate serious violence against another person or group.

We don't allow:

General fictional violence, lyrics, dark humor, historical discussion, or non-credible expressions may be allowed depending on context.

If we believe someone faces an immediate and credible threat, we may take additional action, including contacting appropriate authorities where necessary.

3. Graphic and Violent Content

Some discussion of violence is allowed on Niche, particularly when it has legitimate artistic, documentary, educational, journalistic, historical, or awareness value.

However, we may remove or restrict content showing extremely graphic injury, death, torture, mutilation, or similar material when it:

Less graphic violent content may be age-restricted, hidden behind warnings, made less discoverable, or otherwise limited rather than removed.

Fictional violence in music, artwork, games, films, animation, or other creative work is generally treated differently from real-world graphic violence.

4. Suicide and Self-Injury

People should be able to talk honestly about suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, addiction, and other difficult experiences.

We allow supportive conversations, personal recovery stories, awareness content, artistic expression, and people seeking help.

We do not allow content that:

Some sensitive content discussing or depicting self-harm may be restricted even when it is not removed.

Where appropriate, Niche may provide users with information about support resources.

Protecting Minors

5. Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Child sexual abuse material and sexual exploitation of minors are never allowed on Niche Music.

There is no artistic, humorous, protest, documentary, or other exception that permits child sexual abuse material.

This includes:

This applies to real content and, where appropriate, realistic synthetic or manipulated material depicting child sexual exploitation.

We may immediately remove this content, permanently disable involved accounts, preserve relevant information where legally required, and report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or appropriate law enforcement agencies.

Do not upload, repost, or send CSAM to Niche even for the purpose of reporting it. Use Niche's reporting tools or contact us instead.

6. Sexualization and Exploitation of Minors

Content does not have to meet the legal definition of CSAM to violate our rules protecting minors.

We may remove content that sexualizes, exploits, fetishizes, or inappropriately targets minors.

We also prohibit adults from using Niche to pursue inappropriate sexual relationships with minors.

Hate, Harassment, and Abuse

7. Hate Speech and Hateful Conduct

Niche does not allow attacks against people based on protected characteristics.

Protected characteristics include things such as:

We don't allow content that:

Context matters.

Content may sometimes include otherwise prohibited language when it is clearly being:

That does not mean adding "it's a joke" automatically makes hateful conduct acceptable.

8. Bullying and Cyberbullying

We don't allow severe or repeated behavior intended to intimidate, humiliate, or degrade another person.

This includes:

We generally give more room for criticism of public figures, companies, artists, and public-facing organizations than for attacks on private individuals.

You can say an artist's album sucks.

That does not give you permission to stalk, threaten, dox, or relentlessly harass the artist.

9. Privacy and Personal Information

Do not use Niche to expose sensitive personal information about another person without permission.

This may include:

Sharing information that is already genuinely public may still violate these Guidelines when it is being used to facilitate harassment, stalking, intimidation, or violence.

10. Non-Consensual Intimate Content

Do not share intimate or sexual images of another person without their consent.

We prohibit:

This content may result in immediate account action.

Sexual Content and Nudity

11. Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity

Niche is not a pornography platform.

We generally do not allow:

However, nudity is not automatically prohibited.

We may allow nudity or sexual subject matter when the context is clearly:

For example, nudity in a classical painting, album artwork with legitimate artistic context, documentation of a protest, or medical educational content may be allowed even where sexually explicit material would not be.

We may still limit the visibility of sensitive content even when it is permitted.

Authenticity and Platform Integrity

12. Spam

Don't spam people or manipulate Niche.

We don't allow:

Normal promotion is allowed.

An artist sharing their new song is not spam simply because they're promoting themselves.

13. Fake Accounts and Impersonation

You may use stage names, pseudonyms, fictional identities, or parody accounts.

You may not impersonate another person or organization in a way that is reasonably likely to deceive people about who you are.

This includes impersonating:

Fan and parody accounts should make it reasonably clear that they are not the official person or organization.

14. Fraud, Scams, and Deceptive Practices

Do not use Niche to steal from, defraud, or deliberately deceive people.

We prohibit things such as:

We may remove deceptive accounts even before a scam succeeds.

15. Misinformation and Manipulated Content

Niche is not going to decide which side of every argument is "correct."

People are allowed to:

However, we may remove or restrict false or manipulated content where the deception creates a meaningful risk of harm.

Examples include:

Satire, parody, fictional content, and clearly labeled synthetic media are generally treated differently from deliberate deception.

16. Account and Metric Manipulation

You may not manipulate Niche's systems to create a false impression of popularity or activity.

This includes artificially increasing:

We may remove artificial activity from statistics and take action against accounts involved in manipulation.

This is particularly important if Niche introduces artist payments, charts, rewards, or other programs based on engagement.

Illegal and Dangerous Activity

17. Criminal Activity

Do not use Niche to coordinate or facilitate serious criminal activity.

We may remove content that meaningfully assists activities such as:

Discussion, reporting, fictional depictions, journalism, harm-reduction discussions, historical material, or condemnation of criminal activity may be allowed.

18. Dangerous Organizations and Extremism

We may remove accounts or content that meaningfully represents, recruits for, supports, or facilitates organizations involved in terrorism or organized violent extremism.

Discussion about these organizations for news, academic, documentary, historical, or critical purposes may be allowed.

19. Dangerous Goods and Transactions

Niche should not be used as a marketplace for illegal or heavily regulated goods.

We may remove content facilitating unlawful sales or transfers of things such as:

Educational discussion or artistic references to these subjects are not automatically violations.

Ownership and Intellectual Property

20. Copyright

Only upload or share material that you have the right to use.

You may not use Niche to knowingly distribute material that infringes another person's copyright.

This can include:

Some uses of copyrighted material may be legally permitted, such as fair use or other exceptions under applicable law. We consider context and valid legal rights when reviewing disputes.

Rights holders may contact Niche to request removal of infringing material.

Repeated infringement may result in account restrictions or termination.

21. Trademarks and Other Property Rights

Do not use another person's trademarks, logos, branding, likeness, or other protected property in a way that unlawfully infringes their rights or falsely suggests affiliation.

Not every reference to a brand or artist is infringement.

Criticism, commentary, fan content, parody, news reporting, comparison, and other lawful uses may be permitted.

We may remove usernames or accounts that impersonate brands or deliberately misuse trademarks to deceive users.

22. Stolen or Unauthorized Content

Do not falsely present someone else's work as your own.

This includes knowingly:

Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Content

23. AI-Generated and AI-Assisted Content

Niche Music allows some uses of artificial intelligence, but you must be transparent when AI is used to generate or substantially alter content.

If content was generated or materially created using generative AI, it must be clearly labeled or disclosed in a way that an ordinary user can understand.

This includes things such as:

Simply hiding the disclosure in tags, metadata, or another place users are unlikely to see does not count as clear labeling.

If generative AI was used and you fail to disclose it, Niche Music may remove or restrict the content.

Repeated or deliberate failure to disclose AI-generated content may result in additional account restrictions.

24. AI-Generated Music

AI-generated music is not allowed on Niche Music.

You may not upload, release, distribute, or present music generated by AI song-generation systems as a Niche Track or other music release.

This includes songs where generative AI creates some or all of the:

Using AI tools as part of normal audio production does not automatically make a song AI-generated.

For example, tools used for:

are generally allowed when the underlying music itself was created by people.

The distinction is whether AI is being used as a production tool or as the system that actually generates the musical work or performance.

If we reasonably believe a submitted track is AI-generated, we may remove it or ask the uploader for additional information about how it was created.

25. AI-Generated Sexual or Nude Content

AI-generated nudity, pornography, or sexual content is strictly prohibited on Niche Music.

This includes:

This rule applies even if the depicted person is fictional, does not exist, or supposedly consented.

The artistic, educational, historical, protest, documentary, or similar exceptions that may apply to some real-world nudity do not apply to AI-generated nudity or pornography.

For purposes of these Community Guidelines, Niche Music does not treat AI-generated material as art for the purpose of receiving artistic-content exceptions.

26. AI Depictions of Minors

AI-generated sexual or exploitative depictions of minors are strictly prohibited.

This includes realistic, stylized, fictional, manipulated, or fully synthetic depictions.

Content involving the sexual exploitation or sexualization of minors may result in immediate permanent account removal and may be reported to appropriate authorities when required by law.

27. AI Impersonation and Deceptive Media

You may not use AI to intentionally deceive people about the identity, actions, statements, or endorsement of another person.

We may remove content such as:

Clearly labeled parody, satire, or fictional content may be allowed as long as it does not violate another rule.

Using a label does not make otherwise prohibited content acceptable.

For example, clearly labeling AI-generated pornography as AI-generated does not make it permitted.

28. AI Labels Do Not Override Other Rules

Disclosure is a requirement, not an exception to the rest of these Guidelines.

AI-generated content must still follow every other Niche Music rule.

Content may still be removed even when properly labeled if it involves things such as:

Niche Music may add built-in labels, warnings, metadata, or other indicators to content we believe was generated or substantially altered using AI.

Security

29. Malicious Software and Cyber Abuse

Do not use Niche to attack users, Niche Music, or other systems.

We prohibit:

If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it to us instead of exploiting it.

Enforcement

30. What Happens When Something Breaks the Rules

Not every violation receives the same response.

Depending on the content, context, severity, history, and risk involved, Niche may:

Severe violations may result in immediate permanent removal without a prior warning.

Examples include child sexual exploitation, credible threats of serious violence, serious fraud, or use of Niche to facilitate major criminal activity.

31. Attempts to Evade Enforcement

Do not deliberately evade enforcement actions.

This includes creating or using additional accounts to continue activity that resulted in an account suspension or ban.

Accounts created primarily to evade enforcement may also be restricted or removed.

32. Context Matters

Moderation is not always as simple as identifying a particular image or word.

When appropriate, we may consider:

For example:

Generally allowed: a documentary showing the aftermath of war to explain what occurred.

Potentially restricted: graphic footage of an injured person posted without meaningful context.

Not allowed: graphic footage posted specifically to celebrate the victim's suffering or threaten others.

Similarly:

Generally allowed: nudity appearing in artwork or documentation of a protest.

Not allowed: explicit pornography uploaded primarily for sexual gratification.

Contextual exceptions never permit child sexual abuse material.

33. Reports and Appeals

If you see something that violates these Guidelines, you can report it through Niche's available reporting tools.

Where available, users may also be able to appeal moderation decisions.

Submitting large numbers of knowingly false reports to harass another user may itself violate these Guidelines.

34. Emergencies

Niche is not an emergency service.

If you believe someone is in immediate danger, contact appropriate emergency services rather than relying only on a report to Niche.

35. Changes to These Guidelines

Niche Music will continue to change as the community grows.

We may update these Community Guidelines to address:

When we update these Guidelines, we will update the version and effective date shown at the top.

36. Relationship to Other Niche Policies

These Community Guidelines work alongside our:

The Terms of Service govern your overall use of Niche.

These Guidelines specifically explain the types of content and behavior that are allowed on the platform.

37. Contact Us

Questions about these Guidelines, moderation, copyright, or safety can be sent to:

Niche Music, LLC
hello@nichemusic.app