Alexis SimonJan 10
Following the recent changes in content moderation policy at Meta, I'll be defederating ecoevo.social from Threads.net.
If you haven't seen or followed what's going on, the Hachyderm team probably explains this better than me https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2025/01/09/defederation-from-threads/
#ecoevosocial
Defederation from Threads

Hachyderm defederation from Threads, Jan 2025.

Hachyderm Community
Ben Lockwood, PhDOct 7, 2024
Is the #ecoevosocial server updating slowly / lagging for anyone else?
Alexis SimonSep 23, 2024

Dear ecoevo.social community,
given the price of our hosting has been steadily increasing in the past two years due to the increase in data, I have decided to move the server to another provider.

The plan right now is to take the server down for a few hours on the 30th of September to do the migration. You should expect some perturbations on that day and maybe the following days.

I will keep you updated on the details.

#EcoEvoSocial

Marc Robinson-RechaviNov 6, 2023
Yesterday it was one year that I joined Mastodon, thanks in great part to the excellent initiative of @alxsim in creating #ecoevosocial in a timely manner.
My activity on Twitter had been slowing down, and I've been really happy of the new place and pace I've found here. At the same time I regret what we lost with science Twitter, and I'm afraid we'll never get back anywhere.
#MastodonScience
Marc Robinson-RechaviNov 2, 2023
@alxsim thank you for setting #ecoevosocial up and running it!
Alexis SimonNov 2, 2023

ecoevo.social has been up for a year!

The server has now 5161 registered users (who mostly signed up early before the end of 2022), 1457 users active users during the last month, 2829 users active during the last 6 months.
While the retention rate could be better (around 15% 6 months after sign-up), I am very happy with how this community turned out and the interactions we can have here.
This server allowed me to take the plunge and delete my twitter and facebook accounts.

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#EcoEvoSocial

Alexis SimonSep 21, 2023
Our instance was upgraded to Mastodon 4.2, which brings some new nice features.
You can see the changes in the official blog post
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/
and the changelog
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases
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#EcoEvoSocial
Mastodon 4.2

In this massive update we've added search and removed friction. What's not to love?

Mastodon Blog
HuxleyJul 4, 2023
AT SOME POINT, WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE APPROACHING LAUNCH OF META ON THE FEDIVERSE AND WHAT THIS SERVER, ECOEVO.SOCIAL, SHOULD DO ABOUT IT (I.E. TO BLOCK IT OR NOT). I'M STILL UNDECIDED MYSELF ABOUT THIS BUT FEEL FREE TO RAISE YOUR CONCERNS OR THOUGHTS UNDER THIS POST.IF YOU HAVEN'T FOLLOWED META WILL SOON LAUNCH A MICRO-BLOGGING PLATEFORM THAT IS SUPPOSED TO ONE DAY BE CONNECTED TO THE FEDIVERSE THROUGH ACTIVITYPUB.#ECOEVOSOCIAL @alxsim
HuxleyMay 18, 2023
HI #ECOEVOSOCIAL! I'M TRYING TO THINK OF A GOOD LOGO FOR THE SERVER BUT I'M NOT REALLY THE MOST CREATIVE TYPE.ANY IDEAS APPRECIATED! :MASTOLOVE: @darwin
Show threadMarc Robinson-RechaviMay 11, 2023
@alxsim @biorxiv_genomics @biorxiv_genetics @Julien_JOSEPH I love that the bots exist, thanks. OTOH the fact that they're on #EcoEvoSocial means that the local timeline becomes very encumbered and it's harder to see posts from people. Yet I don't want to mask #biorxiv or #preprint in all cases. Not sure what would be a good solution, just raising the issue in case it's relevant.