ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

Once again, folks, please use the comment field when reporting a user. If you report a post about the latest apple harvest numbers, without any explanation, there's not much this #MastoAdmin can do to guess why.

@federationstream@mstdn.social Thanks. We have some 5k retries queued, should I just delete them to give you a break?

Update: the object storage grew to some 500 GB but the costs are still around 25 €/month. CPU and memory are still quite overprovisioned.

Followers of #ResPublicae accounts have doubled over the last week or so amid the #TwitterMigration.

@CopernicusEU remains in the top 3. @EUClimateAction has sped up to overcome @EU_Commission, @vonderleyen, @europarl_en and @EU_Eurostat.

@Labruunt I'm sorry we didn't live up to your expectations. There is interaction, among the people on the fediverse who decide to use communicate about the posts here.

Also, eventually we hope that every account will be replaced by an official one, so we can transfer followers. With the mirror https://respublicae.eu/@Senficon we helped hundreds of users eventually find the official account https://chaos.social/@senficon when it was created.

Someone reported that there's "political propaganda" on this instance. Quelle surprise! Political propaganda is what politicians and political institutions like the EU exist for.

Even the European Commission and the European Parliament are not neutral sources for the question "how good are you and your policies/actions?".

The source is clearly identified, so this is white propaganda:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_propaganda

Some #MastoAdmin forwarded a report advocating for "deplatforming".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deplatform

That's depressing, because Mastodon is the opposite of an "internet platform". Indeed the #fediverse is a prime example for the slogan "build protocols, not platforms".
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

#ResPublicae is not in the business of providing platforms.

Another example is #ECHA providing clarifications on complex EU regulations in response to public interactions.
https://respublicae.eu/@EU_ECHA/108827205380522728
https://respublicae.eu/@EU_ECHA/108827205477964658

One nice aspect of #ResPublicae is being able to follow how an EU agency or officer interacts with the public. For instance #EURLex personalised tips!
https://respublicae.eu/@EURLex/108607213455975828

#ResPublicae accounts now have more than 5000 followers! (Not unique followers, and some are bots.)

In the top 5 we have @europarl_en and @CopernicusEU; this might provide ideas for @admin / @EDPS.

@kino These are just mirrors. I don't know whether people were forced to place them on the respective Twitter accounts. You'd need to ask the #EuropeanCommission.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/about-european-commission/get-involved/social-media-use_en

Now 39 with some help from:
@eudelegationtur
@EUDelegationUA
@eusrbija
@EUinThailand
@EUinICELAND
@uni_eropa
@EuHouseSkopje
@AmbassadorEU
@WeBalkans
@EU_in_India
@EUAmbIndia
@EU_India_CECP
@kilianmcdonagh

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locale count

ar 1
bg 1
ca 27
cs 13
cy 1
da 2
de 87
el 2
en 924
es 66
et 4
fi 3
fr 162
gl 2
hi 1
hr 10
hu 12
id 1
is 1
it 117
ja 1
ko 1
lt 10
lv 12
mk 2
nl 2
no 1
pl 5
pt-BR 2
pt-PT 25
ro 30
ru 1
sk 9
sl 1
sr 1
sv 46
th 1
tr 1
uk 1
(39 rows)

Here's a #MastoAdmin trying to make the #fediverse more #multilingual.

Current language count on #ResPublicae: 29.

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locale count
ar 1
bg 1
cs 13
da 2
de 87
el 2
en 928
es 90
et 4
fi 3
fr 162
gl 2
hr 10
hu 12
it 117
ja 1
ko 1
lt 10
lv 12
nl 2
no 1
pl 5
pt-BR 2
pt-PT 25
ro 30
ru 1
sk 9
sl 1
sv 46
(29 rows)
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#MastoAdmin: improvements to the signal:noise ratio based on the posting patterns of the past few months.

A couple dozen very chatty individual authors (each with over 2000 posts so far) now have crossposting disabled for retweets and/or replies, based on a subjective judgement that these posts were not predominantly related to EU policy.

Those handles typically had limited following, so the impacts on the fediverse were probably minimal so far, but sometimes it's good to be proactive.

Dear #mastoadmin crowd, does anyone know how interactions are calculated in the #Mastodon admin dashboard? Also asked at
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/18663

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

#MastoAdmin

Dear #MastoAdmin 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.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#cache

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.

#MastoAdmin