The #Wikidata query to find #ResPublicae accounts for MEPs has been updated on our frontpage:
https://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!).
An alternative list of #ResPublicae accounts is now also linked, with the names of national parties and citizenships.
https://w.wiki/6eaK
People sometimes have strong opinions about specific national parties but not necessarily about the European Parliament groups.
Easier lists should make it easier also for moderators of other instances to apply account-level blocks as needed according to their rules (which sometimes don't map easily to EU-level concepts).
Great news! - In contrast to the lagging US #congress more and more Members of the #EuropeanParliament do have #Mastodon accounts.
Check out, if your MP is already there. If not, write to him/her to join! - This is how we dethrone the corporate sites. People of relevance in RL must engage in the #fediverse.
@FediFollows
As with the #journalists and #scientists, welcome them and #followfollowfollow
@HistoPol Thanks! Most #ResPublicae mirrors are hosted without the original account's explicit cooperation. Hopefully, more MEPs and #EU institutions will notice the benefits of the fediverse and take the lead themselves, so at some point we become redundant.
On #Wikidata you can also see a list of "official" fediverse accounts for MEPs and former MEPs:
https://w.wiki/6mFE
The list currently includes:
@alexandrageese
@alynsmith
@anna_cavazzini
@ChristelSchaldemose
@Dobromir_Sosnierz
@echo_pbreyer
@guyverhofstadt
@janalbrecht
@karmel80
@marcel_kolaja
@MEP_Ismail_ERTUG
@mikulas_peksa
@nicosemsrott
@PaulTang
@sahra_wagenknecht
@senficon
@SLagodinsky
@sophieintveld@eupolicy.social
@toomas_ilves
@woelken
(Probably it's not complete. Updates can be made on the Wikidata items.)
Thanks.
It is of vital importance for all democracies in #Europe (and elsewhere) that they and all supranational and national institutions all move to the #Fediverse if they are to sustain fair and free elections.
If #Erdogan wins again in the #TurkishElections2023 corporate #SocialMedia, in particular #Twitter, will bear a chief responsibility:
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PLEASE BOOST from anywhere
Time to start fighting for #European #democracy, too!
Today, #Erdogan is set to win the #turkishelections2023, which were rigged, at least on #SocialMedia, by #ElonMusk (1) and others.
What can we do?--Give all the #MP's and institutions of the #EU a voice in the #Fediverse, regardless of your political inclinations. Make this THE go-to platform for...
#europe #twitter #turkiyeelections #respublicae #eu #wikidata #socialmedia
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...for political discourse.
#Democracy doesn't mean to muzzle dissenting voices, but to engage with them in a civil and intelligent manner.
(For two really fun examples, see my earlier timeline today.)
The admins of...
(1) https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110445974239924802
#european #democracy #erdogan #turkishelections2023 #socialmedia #elonmusk #mp #eu #fediverse #europe #twitter #turkiyeelections #respublicae #wikidata
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...the #EU's
respublicae.eu instance are doing a great job.
Let's give them a hand!--
#FollowFollowFollow and
#ABB--#AlwaysBeBoost
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Here are your treats:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110445921353259492
(German only:)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110445884433241063
#democracy #european #erdogan #turkishelections2023 #socialmedia #elonmusk #mp #eu #fediverse #europe #twitter #turkiyeelections #respublicae #wikidata
It is awesome that so many European politicians are on the #fediverse. I should make a map of them.
In contrast I only know of about 5 US green party members on the #fediverse.
There still isn't a good way to look for other #EU accounts, because I couldn't find any #opendata dataset listing EU agencies/orgs/initiatives/whatever, let alone their social network handles. Most of the accounts in https://respublicae.eu/explore aren't on #Wikidata yet.
Some might be relatively easy to add, like all the language/country variants of the #EuropeanCommission and #EuropeanParliament accounts. (But these might also be run by distinct entities, like local representation offices.) #EP #EC