Major News on community.datasci.social

Two years old

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 06:00:00 +0100

Two years ago, datasci.social was created! 🥳2️⃣🎂
In this time datasci.social has become a vibrant online community: We just had our 10,000th message posted. Almost 500 people have joined from all over the world so far, from various disciplines or from industry, providing an online home for the data science community, broadly defined. Explore our awesome stream here: https://datasci.social/public/local

The smoothly paced, mostly constant growth from the first year has continued. Since around a year, user churn has stabilized: We have on average around 3 new signups per week and 3 people becoming inactive, leading to a steady active user number somewhat above 100. With our fantastic team of 6 voluntary admins/moderators we are thus way above most other servers in our moderator per user ratio - smooth sailing! As before, we have enough capacity to grow and are open for signups.

One year old

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0100

One year ago, datasci.social was created! 🥳🎂 In this time datasci.social has become a vibrant online community with 286 people who have joined from all over the world, from various disciplines or from industry, providing an online home for the data science community, broadly defined. Explore our awesome stream here: https://datasci.social/public/local

There has been smooth, mostly constant growth over the past year, and luckily we have been facing no moderative or technical challenges. Although we have a fantasic team of 6 voluntary admins/moderators, they didn’t have much to do: All that happened in a year was one week of interference from a few spam accounts spawning on other servers, which required in total 5 moderative actions. Our total downtime in this year was 488 minutes, which means an uptime of above 99.9%!

Registrations opened

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0100

🚨 Registrations at datasci.social are now open! Sign up here: https://datasci.social/auth/sign_up

How to migrate your account: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107939441820299376

Before doing so, let us clarify our philosophy and roadmap:

The present and future of datasci.social

The instance was set up on Nov 17, 2022, for this reason:

The goal of this server is to create a community of nice and diverse people who are researching human-centric data science and adjacent topics. For example human-centric data/network science, social data science, urban/geospatial data science, computational social science. Not welcome: bullies, harassers, big abusive/toxic egos.

New team, roadmap, community pages

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:42:00 +0100

In preparation for opening datasci.social registrations next week, some news 🚨

New mod/admin team: https://community.datasci.social/docs/moderation/ @benfmaier @eflegara @estebanmoro @sdesojo Not a single report so far, but good to be prepared.
We adhere to the Mastodon covenant: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
Roadmap: https://community.datasci.social/docs/roadmap/
Community pages: https://community.datasci.social/docs, with info on management, moderation, security, server. Check it out! #mastoadmin #serverinfo

Stay tuned for opening news!

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datasci.social opened

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:50:00 +0100

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First post from our shiny new server https://datasci.social! Super happy it worked out 🥳 #mastoadmin #serverinfo

The goal of this #server is to create a community of nice & diverse people who are researching #HumanCentric #DataScience and adjacent topics. Due to capacity/funding limits, https://datasci.social will be joinable via invites only for some time.

+Welcome to our first members @estebanmoro and @nerdsitu !