Thank you to our supporters!
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 in Updates
We have more and more financial supporters that help us maintain our datasci.social Mastodon instance - A big thank you to all our supporters! ❤️ We are now covering around half of our running server expenses with voluntary donations, which is great …
4h server outage
Wednesday, September 06, 2023 in Updates
We had an unplanned server outage on saturday for 4h14min, for technical reasons. We are sorry for the downtime and thank you for your understanding. This downtime has decreased our server uptime in this year to 99.86%, which is still less than an …
Six months old
Friday, May 19, 2023 in Updates
This week https://datasci.social has turned 6 months old 🥳 We are 133 people now (68 active), with increased growth in the past few weeks. Our server hosts a community for #DataScience, broadly defined. See below our place in the universe of servers: …
New admin
Friday, April 28, 2023 in Updates
One more admin joined our team today: Lucio La Cava (@luciolcw) Lucio is a researcher researching the social network of Mastodon, so he has particular insights into the system. We still had zero moderative reports on our server so far, and we have a …
4h server outage
Thursday, March 02, 2023 in Updates
We just had a server outage for 3h51min. We are sorry for the downtime. The reason had to do with a release of the IP by the infrastructure provider. According to our server host this is being worked on so it cannot happen again. Thank you for your …
Donations pages opened
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 in Updates
We opened a Patreon page to allow our members supporting our running costs financially, which is several 100$ per year: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=88962596 We will list supporters on our support page: …
100 members
Monday, February 27, 2023 in Updates
We have reached 100 members on https://datasci.social! 🥳 Since opening registrations in Jan with 50 members we have doubled in size, following a nice pace of growth. We are now also steadily posting over 100 new posts/week. With ample capacity to …
Mastodon version updated to 4.1.0
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 in Updates
Our server https://datasci.social just got its Mastodon version upgraded to the latest version 4.1.0 which was released two weeks ago. Most notably, you can now add alt text to images you have already posted or edit existing alt text. It has been …
Growth after open registration
Thursday, January 19, 2023 in Updates
Update after 1 week of open registrations at datasci.social: We had 24 new signups, growing to 64 active members. This is a nice pace - everything running smoothly. We have capacity for much more 😎 #mastoadmin #serverinfo datasci.social is probably …
Registrations opened
Thursday, January 12, 2023 in Major News
🚨 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 …