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A little kosmos.social feature update: you can now properly search your entire history of posts and favorites in full-text.

Hat tip to @gregkare for setting it up.

You can now also connect to our XMPP server directly on the Tor network. Just use the following address as server/host:

ht6eqe754p3m2gif.onion

More info: https://wiki.kosmos.org/Services:XMPP

By the way, in case you missed it, you can always check how we configure Mastodon, as well as other Kosmos apps and services, by looking at our infrastructure code.

Here's the current PR for Tor support for example: https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/chef/pulls/95

Feel free to open new issues or discuss existing ones over there!

Maintenance finished.

You can now access this instance from within the Tor network at the following address:

http://mastodon.ezilrofakzrogqfi.onion/

In fact, this very post was submitted from Tor Browser. 🕶️

Caveats: unfortunately, after redirects (e.g. login/logout), you'll have to manually replace "https" with "http" in your browser's address bar. And please be aware that images and other user files are still requested directly from AWS.

Enjoy!

kosmos.social maintenance starting now. Hopefully no downtime, but you may lose access for a few minutes...

Wiki is back. (An unattended MySQL upgrade broke the setup this morning.)

Our wiki is currently down due to a database connection issue. Sorry about that! We're trying to get it back up sometime soon.

macOS and iOS users: What are your favorite XMPP clients on Apple platforms?

Welcome to Mastodon v2.9.2! You can now upload audio files. Thus, the icon for the uploads changed from camera to paperclip. Enjoy!

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/