Account Sign-Up

In order to keep the number of junk accounts on vmst.io as low as possible, we ask you to:

All new account requests that do not complete email and hCaptcha verification within 7 days are automatically deleted. If our systems identify your account request as a risk, we may decline it or request additional information before approval.

Preserving Your Account

Some servers are happy to juice their registration numbers with drive-by registrations. We want to set a higher bar and advertise folks who are part of our community. As such, expect that all accounts on vmst.io will be active at some point. You can be a lurker, but if you sign up and never come back, we reserve the right to delete your account.

The intention is not to delete accounts which fall out of use, only to avoid namesquatting or artificially boosting our registration numbers. We also feel this helps mitigate against sleeper attacks, where accounts are created and sit idle until activated later, to appear with older registration dates, and hence bypass other anti-abuse migrations built into the platform.

Complete any of the following actions to confirm the account is not abandoned:

If you join vmst.io and decide it isn't the best home for your Mastodon experience, you also have the ability to move or delete your own account at any time.

Accounts that are created but show no activity within the first 30 days are subject to suspension, pending deletion.

Developers

If you are the developer of a Mastodon client or another ActivityPub/Fediverse project and would like to use an account on vmst.io to test the functionality of your application, please contact @vmstan before doing so.

While we are generally supportive of such things, we like to know ahead of time should it cause disruptions in service to other members.

Development accounts designed to scrape and/or index user data via our API or other means are prohibited.

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