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Dear crowd, does anyone know how interactions are calculated in the admin dashboard? Also asked at
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/d

Upgrade to v3.5.3 completed. It took few minutes and was painless. The database migrations took few milliseconds.

Dear crowd, any idea how to force an update of the "interactions" statistics on the /admin/dashboard page?

Any and all "tootctl cache" commands failed to update the figure, which has been stuck for many days to the same (unrealistic) number.
docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/to

A particularly prolific user was reported by a mastodon.social user for the volume of their posts. Configuration was exceptionally changed for that user in order to not crosspost RTs and replies.

Such suggestions are welcome directly to this admin account. Reports may not always reach us.

For transparency and in case it helps people considering whether to self-host a similar instance, the operating costs of are currently a little less than 25 €/month (VAT included).

Without any performance optimisation whatsoever, the instance is currently quite overprovisioned and should have enough capacity to withstand over 1 year of growth.

Using a smaller instance would cut hosting costs by some 10 €/month, but reducing time costs is more important.

One frustrating experience is receiving a non-obvious moderation report from another instance and not being able to reply with a comment. I understand that wants to protect the identity of reporters (presumably) but this doesn't foster cooperative gardening of the shared space that is the .

As long as we're running, our APIs are open. In case of shutdown, we'll do our best to deposit an dump on , so that any research value of the dataset isn't lost.

The overall database we can share in but no single license on the text and media would be available.

Some data scrubbing might also be needed if doesn't yet provide a native way to provide dumps of public-only information.

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This service is experimental and offered without promises of permanence.

We're mostly a privacy-friendly mirror or proxy which offers some more features than by virtue of integrating directly on the .

A long-term service for the EU's communication on social media would be useful, but we're not such a service. (A suitable institutional home would need to be found.)

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We're very happy to see social.network.europa.eu/explo, a instance run for the by the European Commission (@EC_DIGIT + @EDPS). Hopefully it will grow and improve fast. The sooner ResPublicae.eu becomes redundant, the better.

Given the changed circumstances, there's no longer a need to consider offering local accounts in the future. The frontpage has been updated accordingly.

Maintenance is mostly over. Some files are still being restored.

The terms of service and privacy policy were updated:
respublicae.eu/terms

We're now running a very minimal setup on a small virtual machine (Debian 10) + object storage. Let's see how it goes.

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respublicae.eu will go through some maintenance to switch to another hosting provider.

@rriemann @echo_pbreyer Heh. I thought I added a link back to the official Mastodon account from this mirror but it seems it didn't get through due to a bug.

At some point a strategy will be needed for the duplication (hopefully soon, if official fediverse accounts keep growing!).

🇩🇪 Endlich könnt ihr Informationen der EU-Institutionen, EU-Politiker, EU-Fraktionen usw. auch über inoffizielle Mastodon-Mirrorkonten beziehen: respublicae.eu/explore
🇬🇧At last you can follow EU institutions, politicians and groups via inofficial Mastodon mirror accounts: respublicae.eu/explore
#JoinMastodon

Profile directories are also fascinating on smaller instances, share those you like. respublicae.eu/explore got rather interesting even if it's quite random.

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Welcome and welcome back on and the !

It seems respublicae.eu got as many interactions in 12 hours as it previously got in 2 weeks.

Remember to boost generously to help people discover interesting accounts. Not everyone will use .

@lumiukko I see that you probably mean certain French-language accounts. They are overactive this week for obvious reasons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Fre

@lumiukko Not sure what you mean by "questionable".

We've included all elected members of the European Parliament found on Wikidata (past or current), so it's quite a wide spectrum. Due to the size of constituencies, in the various countries the threshold for a party to be included may be anywhere between 1 % and 5 % of the ballot for a majority of the seats.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European

Tweeting patterns may differ though. Do you have any specific example in mind?

Nasce un EuroPoliverso!

ResPublicae.eu è stato lanciato! I loro amministratori vogliono facilitare l'adesione al #discorso politico dell'UE sul #fediverso .

Per ora si limiteranno a creare su # Mastodon un mirror dei 1500 account #Twitter di funzionari ed eurodeputati dell'UE elencati da Wikidata e european-union.europa.eu/conta…

Argomenti di esempio:
respublicae.eu/tags/IPCC
respublicae.eu/tags/EPlenary

Un ringraziamento speciale a @mastohost per l'eccellente servizio ea @robertoszek@respublicae.eu per essere stato di grande aiuto con #Stork / #pleromabot .
pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz

(notizia segnalataci da @filippodb )

@praetor@respublicae.eu:

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 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 #Stork / #pleromabot.
pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz

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