mastodon 4.7.3The Gradient is an organization with the missions of making it easier for anyone to learn about AI and of facilitating discu. We were founded in 2017 by a group of students and researchers at the Stanford AI Lab. Our current projects include The Gradient Magazine, The Gradient Podcast, The Update newsletter, and Sigmoid Social. We are a non-profit and volunteer-run effort run by researchers and engineers in the AI community.
Hello Sigmoid Social users!
Wow, Sigmoid Social has been around for over 2.5 years now, how time flies...
Just want mention we are very much still around as administrators and moderators of this Mastodon instance behind the scenes.
We appear to have reached a steady-state of a decent number of users, and we love that some of you still benefit from this instance.
Please do message or email us if you want to suggest improvements or changes!
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Fun fact for long-time Sigmoiders - we've seen more users joining lately, and the active users has generally stabilized at 2k+ users for a while now.
Thank you all for being part of this lovely place :)
Hello Sigmoiders! Welcome to day 5 of Sigmoid Social. We have over 2.5k active users already with no signs of slowing down!
We have been working on updating our About page as well as our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We recommend you take a look: https://sigmoid.social/about/more
Please let us know if you have any recommendations :)
FYI: we currently have no plans to in any way limit interaction with Threads on this instance. Some major AI voices (eg Karpathy, LeCun) are active on there, so we believe this in the best interest of the community. However, if Sigmoid Social users urge us to act otherwise, we'd be happy to put it to a vote.
(context: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon )
Oops, we haven't posted anything in quite a while... Hi! Though we've been silent, be assured that behind the scenes we at The Gradient are continuing to actively admin and moderate Sigmoid Social. Our stats show steady user activity for a while now, so we are happy many of you decided to stick around and keep posting here 😊
Happy almost holidays 🎄
PSA: We've been seeing an uptick of spam coming from various Mastodon instances over the last several weeks. To address this, we are suspending federation with the instances that appear to be the source of spam; these are generally small instances that don't presently have interactions with users on here. Our instance still has approval-gated registration, so no spam accounts are expected to be created on here.
We have seen an uptick in crypto spam in the last couple of days. As this is coming from other Mastodon instances there is not much we can do except suspend the account as they are reported, as we do not want to block federation entirely with these instances. Hopefully this willl get resolved soon!
@chrisoffner3d@sigmoid.social @albrecht@masto.a0s.de we actually do have elastic search enabled. We'll take a look and see if there is an issue with it.