Hello! This page will help you get started with Mastodon and in turn VRParty!

What is Mastodon?

TLDR; Mastodon is an open-source micro blogging platform using ActivityPub to participate in the decentralized net known as the Fediverse!

  • Mastodon official documentation: Link

  • What is Mastodon (Video): Link

How to use Mastodon?

For people who are new to Mastodon and the Fediverse, I recommend watching the video below as it goes over everything a NOOB, jk, a new user would need to know.

  • How to use Mastodon (Video): Link

Moving to another instance

Are you moving to or from VRParty? This video here will help you with that process!

  • How to move to another Mastodon instance (video): Link

Mobile apps

Linked here is a list of Mastodon-compatible mobile apps for both Android and IOS. If you are on IOS I recommend IceCubes, it’s 100% free 😆!

  • Mastodon mobile apps: If you are looking for other ways to access Mastodon this page should help you: Link

Source

Last but not least is the Mastodon source code. As stated on the about page VRParty is running a vanilla instance of Mastodon which means we are running the exact same code as on the official git repo.

  • Mastodon on GitHub: Link

One last thing!

Also I wanted to mention this for any fellow VRC players, if you are interested in meeting other people on VRC that are also interested in Mastodon and the Fediverse check out this group created by the owner of baka.social!: Link

VRParty Resources

Resources relating to just VRParty.

News bot

I have setup a bot on VRP that automatically send out update notifications on updates to certain VR games and Software. You can visit the account here: Link

Roles

VRParty has a few roles that can be used to Identify staff, official bots, and Donators.

Roles:

  • VRP Owner: The role designated to the Owner of VRParty, Reno.

  • Admin: This is a super user role, users with this role can do almost everything the Owner can and assist with running VRParty.

  • Moderator: The mod Role is for users who help keep VRP clean of malicious users and keep bad content off the Instance.

  • VRP Official: This Role is for bots on VRP, if you see a bot without this role then it is not an official bot.

  • VRP Supporter: This Role is for users who support VRP financially on Patreon ❤️.