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Financial Simplification
To all vmst.io members who have been contributing to our operations using Open Collective for the past year, thank you. Active members may have seen us add and remove things to our offerings in the 18 months we've been in operation. Our foc...
Published on April 5, 2024 by Michael Stanclift
October 9 Outage
I slept very well last night, unfortunately when I got out of bed I learned there was blast crater where our Mastodon instance used to be. Our hosting provider, Digital Ocean, is experiencing a massive outage of their entire managed Kuberne...
Published on October 9, 2023 by Michael Stanclift
Quarterly Report
It’s been just over three months since I opened up registration on vmst.io It’s time to write our first Quarterly Report....
Published on February 8, 2023 by Michael Stanclift
Budget
Transparent and open finances.
Zero Out
from Michael Stanclift to vmst•io •
-$451.25 USD
Paid
Reimbursement #196946
+$4.00USD
Completed
Contribution #599993
+$4.00USD
Completed
Contribution #599993
$
Today’s balance--.-- USD
Total raised
$451.25 USD
Total disbursed
$451.25 USD
Estimated annual budget
$179.47 USD
About
Your social media feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Mastodon is radically different social media, back in the hands of the people. Mastodon treats you like a person, not a product.
No tracking. No advertising.
This Open Collective funds the continued operation of the Mastodon instance vmst.io.
But Mastodon isn’t just the vmst.io domain, or a single a website—it is a federation (think Star Trek 🖖) Nearly 4,000 independent communities (and growing) running Mastodon form a coherent network, where while every instance is different, each one is part of the whole. Mastodon is built on open standards, using sustainable technologies (i.e. no blockchain) that have powered the web for decades.
Thanks to the network's spread out and independent nature there are more moderators who you can approach for personal help, and servers with strict codes of conduct. It also has tools to help you manage your usage, limit notifications, and control your experience. Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools to help protect yourself.
Mastodon is also part of a larger system of ActivityPub powered sites that can all interact together. There are millions of users across nearly 9,000 ActivityPub powered sites. Some like Mastodon, some more like other video and picture sharing social media sites you're used to on the Internet. But without lock-in, without making you the product.
You can even use ActivityPub to power commenting and interacting to posts from on your own blog!
aspe:keyoxide.org:LSZOX46KAG3XUQN7SZG4G35RCA
No tracking. No advertising.
This Open Collective funds the continued operation of the Mastodon instance vmst.io.
But Mastodon isn’t just the vmst.io domain, or a single a website—it is a federation (think Star Trek 🖖) Nearly 4,000 independent communities (and growing) running Mastodon form a coherent network, where while every instance is different, each one is part of the whole. Mastodon is built on open standards, using sustainable technologies (i.e. no blockchain) that have powered the web for decades.
Thanks to the network's spread out and independent nature there are more moderators who you can approach for personal help, and servers with strict codes of conduct. It also has tools to help you manage your usage, limit notifications, and control your experience. Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools to help protect yourself.
Mastodon is also part of a larger system of ActivityPub powered sites that can all interact together. There are millions of users across nearly 9,000 ActivityPub powered sites. Some like Mastodon, some more like other video and picture sharing social media sites you're used to on the Internet. But without lock-in, without making you the product.
You can even use ActivityPub to power commenting and interacting to posts from on your own blog!
aspe:keyoxide.org:LSZOX46KAG3XUQN7SZG4G35RCA