Mastodon for respectful 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 Elephant (Bird UI) and Tangerine directly into your preference options, as well as hosting our own copies of Elk and Phanpy!
- 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.
