Management

Raison d’être

The datasci.social 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.

This instance aims to counter the danger of surveillance capitalism screwing up social media and manipulating public opinion, as demonstrated recently by Twitter’s demise. We believe we can do things better in a “grassroots” approach. If you agree, then datasci.social could be a fitting place for you. And if you just came to post/discuss about research - or any other topic you find interesting - that’s perfect! 👍 See more on our about page.

Visit our support page to find out how to support us.

Management, security & trust

The community is currently managed by a volunteer team of data scientists. Server finances are managed by Michael Szell. Our running costs are financed by voluntary donations. Our roadmap is clear.

We adhere to the Mastodon covenant, and our community pages are openly improvable by the community on Github (via issue or pull request). On our community updates blog we communicate updates timely and transparently. Our server is hosted and managed by experienced Mastodon server admins following excellent industry uptime standards, see our technical server docs. See our privacy policy for how we deal with privacy and data.