kosmos.social is currently hosted on a dedicated server at Hetzner in Germany (renewable energy source, German laws apply). We configure and deploy everything via Chef cookbooks. Your uploads are stored on Amazon S3. Automated backups are run regularly and pushed to S3 as well.
Our fork of the source code is publicly available at https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/mastodon/ (we deploy the production
branch). We frequently update the repo and running code with the latest fixes and improvements.
TL;DR We know what we are doing and your data should be safe. However, since this is a free service, we do not guarantee it.
If you're using IRC, you can find us in #kosmos on Freenode. XMPP users are invited to join kosmos@kosmos.chat. If there's no immediate response to a question, just idle for a while.
You can now access this instance from within the Tor network at the following address:
http://mastodon.ezilrofakzrogqfi.onion/
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.
The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of kosmos.social; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:
These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.