Mastodon version updated to 4.5.3
Monday, December 08, 2025 in Updates
At only 3 hours out, our server https://datasci.social just got its Mastodon version upgraded to the latest version 4.5.3. This long overdue update from version 4.4.1 also comes with new features that were added in the 4.5.x line one month ago, most …
Clarifying the spam rule
Friday, December 05, 2025 in Updates
With the possibility of the current Mastodon version to add detailed information to server rules, we added some new information to our existing rule “No spam or commercial advertisements”. The new detailed information reads as follows: …
Image loading issues
Friday, June 06, 2025 in Updates
As announced yesterday, we had some image loading issues in the last two days, where some images did not load, and images could not be added to posts. By now, the problem has resolved itself automatically - thank you for your understanding. The …
10h server outage
Sunday, April 20, 2025 in Updates
We had an unplanned server outage between April 15th and 17th for 10h01min, for technical reasons. We are sorry for the downtime and thank you for your understanding. See our server status here: https://stats.uptimerobot.com/DllMwIoAWM The server …
Threads suspended
Monday, January 20, 2025 in Updates
As announced two weeks ago, we suspended, or “defederated from”, threads.net today. So far we have given the platform the benefit of the doubt following a vigilant “wait and see” approach - while hoping that this connection …
99.908% Uptime in 2023
Saturday, February 03, 2024 in Updates
We crunched the numbers and are happy to report that in 2023 https://datasci.social had an uptime of 99.908%. The difference to 100% was due to two unplanned downtimes of around 4 hours each. Our uptime from our founding in Nov 2022 until now is …
Mastodon version updated to 4.2.5
Friday, February 02, 2024 in Updates
Our server https://datasci.social got its Mastodon version upgraded to the latest version 4.2.5 yesterday, immediately after a critical vulnerability became public: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw. This …
Our stance on Threads
Sunday, December 17, 2023 in Updates
With Meta’s Threads recently starting concrete federation experiments, we have been asked about datasci.social’s stance concerning preemptive suspension (also called “defederation” or “fediblock”). Here my …
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 …