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 …
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 …