Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

Dear all,

For now, I will keep the site closed for registrations; but everyone can independently invite people to join using the following link to generate an invite:

https://idf.social/invites

If you know someone who wants to join this instance, then please do give them an invite!

Consider the instance open for those who know anyone on IDF.social.

"Sense of community" and an initial seed of some 40 IR researchers should be enough to keep those spammers out of here and still grow the club!

#introductions ℹ

Computer scientist 👨‍🏫 with main focus on Information Retrieval 📄

Also interested in Data Science / Big Data 💾

In the previous millennium a PhD on Multimedia Databases 🎥 (Yes that was a respectable research topic once upon a time pre-birdsite!)

#sigir is my academic home.

Entrepreneur: co-founder of #spinque (spinque.com)

IDF.social admin.

Loves indie music: follow me at @arjenpdevries if you are interested in gigs, #nowplaying events, etc.

Knowledge frees humanity.

Thank you, corpus of Visual Metaphores!

http://www.vismet.org/VisMet/

Inaugural toots on idf.social using a photo of lunch with Nick Belkin after attending the now Dr. Hugo Huurdeman defense.

See also:
http://timelessfuture.com/phd

IDF.social looking at the Fediverse:

Total servers: 3165
Total registered: 1889977
Total active last week: 175078
Total joined last week: 25116

Stats provided by `tootctl domains crawl`

Now I hoped that pixelfed federation to myself on idf.social would have been resolved with the upgrade to v2.7.0, but it did not.

Q: @dansup

Any idea why federation from @arjen to @arjenpdevries works fine, but to @arjen does not work? (I keep getting the hourglass.)

You have my permission to look at my records in the database!

/cc @pixeldev

Being on v2.7.0 gives all of us a new feature, _the directory_:
https://idf.social/explore

You can opt-in here:
https://idf.social/settings/profile
(tick "List this account...")

Hi everyone, after over 12h downtime...

We are back, better than ever: running the v2.7.0 of Mastodon that was released Saturday night.

My apologies for the downtime - running out of diskspace collided with updating kernel modules, which required larger sysadmin rights than I currently have on the server where this instance runs.

I learned to either get those sysadmin rights myself, or not do upgrades from home on a Sunday afternoon, when *real* sysadmins have their weekend.

An example for IP&M to follow?!

http://issi-society.org/blog/posts/2019/january/resignation-of-the-editorial-board-of-the-journal-of-informetrics/