Kosmos @kosmos@kosmos.social

kosmos.social is now running Mastodon 2.9.0, which comes with a shiny new one-column layout. If you're not a fan of the Tweetdeck-style columns, be sure to check it out! (Also nice with the light-color theme version.)

Just go to preferences and remove the checkmark from "Enable advanced web interface".

Blog post about new layout: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/

Release notes: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.0

Our infrastructure code is finally public: https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/chef/issues

You can find our Mastodon setup in there, as well as config most other services we run. Feel free to open issues, in case you find something broken, or you want to propose a change. PRs accepted as well, of course.

We neglected to check the time-to-live for the kosmos.social DNS record, so the downtime may have taken much longer than half an hour for you. Sorry about that!

The good news is that we're running on a nice new server, with the current Ubuntu LTS release, and much newer hardware.

Hey everyone,

We're migrating kosmos.social to a new server today. We don't have a proper schedule yet, but please expect it to be offline for up to half an hour within the next few hours. Thanks.

Sorry for the ~25 minutes of downtime! Looks like our trusty old hardware is degrading, slowly but steadily. We've already been planning the move to a new one, which is going to happen soon...

Welcome to Mastodon 2.8.0! Biggest new feature: you can create and participate in polls now:

Announcement:

We're launching public developer calls for all things Kosmos, every Wednesday at 9am UTC, from today on: https://wiki.kosmos.org/Main_Page#Public_weekly_calls

The server hosting kosmos.social and our wiki had a few hickups today. The IPFS processes were going a bit rogue, eating all the RAM. All fixed now.

Stats are back! And the migration issue is being fixed upstream as well.

This instance is running Mastodon 2.7.0 now. Unfortunately, we lost all user stats in the migration. Hopefully, we'll have them back soon.

Good news, everyone! We're running Mastodon 2.6.1 now. The highlights include verified links in your profile, as well as an overhauled direct message UI: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodon-2.6-released/

We're now running Mastodon 2.5.0. Some highlights:

- New profile design
- Replies count in web UI
- Feature friends on profile
- Higher video upload limit

Upgrade to 2.5.0 went sideways. We're on it...

We just upgraded kosmos.social to the latest security release of Mastodon (v2.4.4).

If you read this, then please enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling of having your fediverse account serviced by someone who doesn't sell you to advertisers in return. ✊

Have a nice Sunday!

We have experienced some downtime again today, due to network issues in our provider's data center. Again, if your timelines are not up to date, they should update within the next few minutes.

It seems that a planned router replacement yesterday led to some unintended problems. Meaning we may see more connection failures until they're on top of the situation. Please be patient, we cannot do much about this ourselves! Thanks and sorry.

We had a small hickup, resulting in timelines not having updated for an hour or so. Everything solved and if your timelines are still a bit stale, they'll update within the next few minutes. Sorry about that.

We're closing registrations for a while, due to spambots invading the instance recently. If someone you know is looking for an instance, you can ping us for invites.

Hopefully this is just a temporary measure. Thanks for understanding.

We're on Mastodon 2.4.3 now. Notable new feature: fancy new filters for all your timelines. Check out https://kosmos.social/filters to set your own.

Full changelog: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.3

Good news, everyone! We're on Mastodon v2.4.2 now. It contains major improvements for language filtering and detection. Head to https://kosmos.social/settings/preferences to set both the default language for your own toots (helps with false detection of very short posts), as well as the languages you'd like to see in your timeline.