Bot Accounts

Bot accounts are not prohibited on vmst.io, so long as they provide some clear purpose or value to either the vmst.io community or wider Fediverse.

We have several internal Bots:

• @modbot
• @funding
• @iostat
• @mergebot

If you're interested in starting a Bot account, we encourage you to reach out to a member of our staff ahead of time to make sure that it's an appropriate fit for our site. Once created, it must be clearly designated as a Bot in the account bio and have an identification of who maintains it and how they can be contacted.

Bot accounts that boost or crosspost content from other social networks, without the consent of the content owners, are prohibited.

Development Accounts

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 meansare prohibited.