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" is dead", proclaimed the maintainer after yet more changes.
github.com/zedeus/nitter/issue

Some instances managed to survive a bit longer but now we're suspending updates of accounts. We'll reassess in a little while.

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Since 2023-08-10, our mirrors almost always failed.

We're now trying the instance by the excellent @nolog as source. (Trying to avoid excess load.)

Please support them and the Nitter developers if you can:
nolog.cz/en/support/
liberapay.com/zedeus

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The query to find accounts for MEPs has been updated on our frontpage:
w.wiki/62$8

It now includes languages and political groups so that you can more easily find accounts you want to follow (or mute!).

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ResPublicae.eu has launched! We want to make it easier to join the policy discourse on the .

For now we just mirror on about 1500 accounts of EU officials and MEPs as listed by Wikidata and european-union.europa.eu/conta.

Example topics:
respublicae.eu/tags/IPCC
respublicae.eu/tags/EPlenary

Special thanks to @mastohost for the excellent service and @robertoszek for being so helpful with / .
pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz

Pages like respublicae.eu/@CopernicusEU/m will appear rather broken, but they're rarely accessed. (And unfortunately they were quite broken already, for example with links to a now squatted Nitter domain...)

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To reduce costs (and possibly save energy), we're experimenting with moving older files to cold storage.

For now the simplistic approach is a object storage lifecycle rule to move all attachments older than 180 days to the Glacier class. It's not possible for such rules to target only originals, or mp4 files, or files above a certain size.

In a few months we can consider whether to refine this approach. Feedback appreciated.

" is dead", proclaimed the maintainer after yet more changes.
github.com/zedeus/nitter/issue

Some instances managed to survive a bit longer but now we're suspending updates of accounts. We'll reassess in a little while.

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Since 2023-08-10, our mirrors almost always failed.

We're now trying the instance by the excellent @nolog as source. (Trying to avoid excess load.)

Please support them and the Nitter developers if you can:
nolog.cz/en/support/
liberapay.com/zedeus

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Fermeture de notre service Nitter
nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/

Maintenir une instance Nitter est devenu de plus en plus complexe et chronophage ces derniers mois.
Nous pensons que notre temps et notre énergie seront mieux investi·es ailleurs, ce pourquoi nous avons décidé de fermer notre instance Nitter.

Si vous souhaitez toujours utiliser Nitter, retrouvez la liste des instances ici :
github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/

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I was introducing someone I know to #Mastodon a few years back, starting with:
"So let's find a server that suits your niche interests. What are you looking for?"
...thinking that I knew all the fedi communities pretty well.

They responded cheekily "Is there a european-foreign-policy server?"

Of course I came up short, and they ended up making an account on a generalist server.

But fedi has grown a lot since!
So happy that eupolicy.social, respublicae.eu and social.network.europa.eu exist 🔥

accounts now have over 70,000 followers (not unique).

Under the hood, Mastodon keeps track of many more users who for some reason interacted with our instance. Over time that becomes rather wasteful, so we've finally activated regular data purging. Such hygiene saves us 200 GB in storage.

Even better, we no longer have to worry about holding potentially personal data about thousands of users for no reason. Our policy now looks better.
respublicae.eu/terms

Our source is broken again, we'll reconsider the alternatives. (Such as self-hosting or switching to a Nitter source.)

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A suggestion for whoever sent a report about 40 posts and 90 images without comment: don't. Focusing just on the 3 most egregious, ideally with a comment, would have been enough to get us to moderate the account as we did.

has been upgraded to Mastodon v3.5.9, a security release.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

The upgrade was painless. Thank you and especially @Claire[@]sitedethib.com for offering backports to pre-v4 releases and for the clear instructions.

While the details of CVE-2023-36459 have not been published yet, the title suggests the vulnerability may be exploitable even on an instance like ours where no third party can directly post anything.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

[Annonce de service]

Notre service Nitter subit actuellement une interruption de service en raison de changements du côté de Twitter.
Le développeur de Nitter est au courant, nous vous tiendrons informé·es de l’évolution de la situation.

To reduce truncation errors, we caved and increased the character limit for posts to 2000 characters.

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mirrors are catching up on the recent posts, using RSS input for the ever-wonderful .

We're only able to get the 20 most recent posts from , so any account which posted more than that in the past ~2 weeks will have some posts missing. Some posts also get a bit messed up in the data conversion, so please be patient. (Most issues are already reported upstream.)

Please send patches or donations at pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz/ple!

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So it finally happened. The access used to update was cut off, all requests get an HTTP 401 response. Some discussion at
github.com/robertoszek/pleroma

Venez nous retrouver aux @geekfaeries ! Notre stand se trouve au Village du Libre avec @Framasoft, @Mozilla et l' @aprilorg !
Et merci beaucoup @Pouhiou pour cette grue géante en crochet !! :blobcat_heartcat:

@ombudsman We are glad to be competing in the prestigious #EOAward with #EUVoice and #EUVideo!
If you like our pilot project on alternative social media based on Open Source and #privacy oriented #mastodon and #peertube software, vote for us!

Due to the growth of the , which may have passed 10 million registered users depending how you count, we had to update our () disclosures.
respublicae.eu/about/more

Other possibilities exist. The principle of least astonishment could be a guiding factor:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principl

We could mark posts from certain accounts unlisted if they regularly post to hashtags in ways which don't belong.

We could also forcefully add CWs to posts, but so far we don't. It's hard to come up with a CW which would be applicable for all accounts, or for entire classes of accounts equally. A catch-all CW like "From birdsite 🐦" is broadly correct but also potentially unhelpful.

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