Administration

Administration

Mementomori.social was founded by Rolle Laukkarinen. The instance is run and funded by Mementomori ry ("rekisteröity yhdistys," abbreviated ry, is the Finnish term for a registered non-profit association), whose members keep the instance independent and community-supported rather than owned by a company.

If you want to know more about the technical details, read about the servers page.

Other admins include ikkeT, raikas, lari, mustikkasoppa.

Mementomori ry

Mementomori ry is a registered non-profit association in Finland (business ID 3637371-4, home municipality Jyväskylä), founded in 2026 to run and fund mementomori.social. It keeps the instance independent and sustainable, funded by its members rather than owned by a company. The board is Rolle Laukkarinen (chair), Veera Laukkarinen (secretary) and Ilkka Tengvall (treasurer). Read more at members.mementomori.social.

About the owner, Rolle Laukkarinen

Hello! 👋 Let me switch to first person here. I’m a web developer, entrepreneur, and sysop from Finland, a small country up north in Europe, between Russia and Sweden.

Long story short, I built my first website in 1998 when I was about ten years old. I got into computers through my father, who had his first PC back in the 80s as a hardcore hobbyist. I instantly fell in love with HTML and CSS, and the rest of the web languages followed soon after.

Me in the 90s.

Me as a teenager.

My first Linux distribution was Mandrake (a Red Hat variant, later known as Mandriva), released in 1998. In the 2000s, I got into servers, again through my father, who ran his own home server inside a wardrobe (my mom really didn’t like that, haha).

I never stopped coding or writing, I’ve been doing both daily ever since. I grew up on the Internet. My first social media experience was MySpace in the early 2000s. After that, I tried nearly every platform I came across: Jaiku, Bebo, PicPlz (basically Instagram before Instagram), Friendster, StumbleUpon, Delicious, GetGlue, Google+... and countless others, I counted more than 160 social platforms. It was the "Wild West" of social media back then, with users creating custom CSS and designs for their profiles. Then Facebook came along and changed everything, not necessarily for the better.

In 2013, I started my own web and hosting company, and I have worked in the Finnish web industry ever since, building fast, lightweight sites and running the servers behind them.

That’s about it. I hope you feel confident that you’re in good hands.

If you’d like to know more about me, check out my now page.

An old office desk of mine.

At the office in 2022.

The old wardrobe server I mentioned earlier.

My old office desk.