ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

I have now joined a handful #ActivityPub #relays (thank you for the service!).
https://mastodon-relay.thedoodleproject.net
https://relay.libranet.de
https://relay.minecloud.ro
https://relay.social.tigwali.fr

(Found via https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays .)

This understandably has caused a load spike, let's see how it goes.

I have no idea what's the #federation status of this #Mastodon instance at the moment.

There seem to be no backlogs: updates are sent immediately to followers on other instances like mamot.fr. However, most searches of profiles by name and toots by tag from other instances return nothing so far.

This will probably improve over time as people start interacting with more profiles discovered by some accident of history or by following mentions from bigger profiles.

At the moment all profiles here are marked as posting to English, the default interface language.

It will take some tinkering and/or elbow grease to update the preferences of at least the busiest profiles like @Europarl_FR @Europarl_DE @europarl_it @europarl_es @Europarl_PL @europainitalia.

Marking #languages correctly is important so that people can filter by their preferred languages and have a seamless experience even if they don't speak English.

#i18n #l10n #g11n

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

For now we just mirror on #Mastodon about 1500 #Twitter accounts of EU officials and MEPs as listed by Wikidata and https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en.

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

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