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First sight Oct 12, 2022 UTC
Last successful check Oct 12, 2024 UTC
Noxious No
New No
Software Mastodon 4.4.0-nightly.2024-10-11+e15befe+io
Registrations Open (by admin approval)
Meta’s Threads moderation Threads is neither suspended nor limited, according to this instance’s list of moderated instances.
Short description
vmst·io is Mastodon for technologists, geeks, and nerds of every type and stripe. Highly available, well federated, and community minded.
Long description
Mastodon for technologists, geeks, and nerds of every type and stripe.Why choose
vmst.io as your Mastodon server?
- We run the latest available Mastodon code, usually before anyone else, and regularly contribute fixes back to the Mastodon project.
- We're built to be highly performant and highly available, taking ownership of issues when we're not. We also publish our realtime system status, and strive for better than 99.9% observed availability.
- We are well moderated, with multiple volunteer staffers around the world monitoring for user reports, with clear rules against hate speech and harassment. We proactively defederate from known bad actors to protect our users.
- We believe in giving you options in how you use Mastodon and experience the Fediverse. We integrate popular third-party themes like Bird UI and Tangerine directly into your preference options.
- We are 100% member funded! We have no corporate sponsors or venture capitalist backers. Our shareholders are our staff and users. While access to your account does not require a paid subscription, for those that can afford it we have Ko-Fi and Patreon as ways to help on a monthly basis.
- We have an A+ rating from Mozilla Observatory and Qualys SSL Labs, but most importantly we don't leverage any third party cookies, use trackers or run ads on our service, as verified by The Markup's Blacklight.
- We are currently listed on the official joinmastodon.org Server Directory under Technology, and as such we are a party to the Mastodon Server Covenant which outlines the fundamental expectations for server administration.
When you apply for an account on vmst.io, we require you to verify you're a legitimate human being by verifying your email and completing an hCaptcha. Our staff may also manually flag your account for additional verification if required. For more information please refer to our
New Accounts documentation.
Frequently asked questions For more, please visit
docs.vmst.io
Instance rules
- Harassment
- Impersonation
- Bigotry
- Extremism
- Advertising
- NSFW
- Disinformation
- CSAM
- Gore
Instances certainly moderating this instance [?]
Date of creation Oct 7, 2022 UTC
Display name Michael Stanclift
Bio
vmst.io Owner · Mastodon Contributor · Heavily Caffeinated · Liberally Minded · Virtually Benevolent · Forever Tooting · Lifelong Kansan · Father of Four
Born 1983 · Federated 2018
Statistics
Last 12 weeks activity (totals: 33546 statuses, 3007 logins, 22 registrations)
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Last checks (green: OK; red: KO)
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Succesful checks: 515/548 (93.98%)