Vivaldi Social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Vivaldi Social is part of the Mastodon network and is hosted in Iceland by the makers of Vivaldi Browser. Everyone is welcome to join.

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Did you know that if you download Vivaldi and sign into Vivaldi, you can use the same login to log into Vivaldi Social and thus Mastodon?

The Vivaldi login is used for things like sync, but also the forum and blogging service. Sync has an extra encryption password.

What this means is that for anyone using Vivaldi, getting into Mastodon is really, really easy.

tr3k

@jon I wonder if this is now part of the installation process? Does this mean that new Vivaldi users will also be guided to set up their Vivaldi / Mastodon account then?

@tr3k @jon More or less: when you open Vivaldi for the first time (or create a new profile), you have a welcome assistant to begin to tailor it at your tastes, and the final step shows you some things you can do right now, including sync or sign in to their Mastodon instance.

Or it’s just among the default bookmarks selection in the Speed Dial page, and a pre-added web panel.

It’s just there because it’s theirs (and you can remove it and replace it with your own instance in the side panel), it does not force you to use it.