ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

@bartdeganck Yes, ideally every MEP would directly run an official account somewhere in the fediverse, but we're not there yet. Some parties/political groups set up their own instances, so they aren't under europa.eu either, but they can use some domain registered officially by them.

#ResPublicae accounts can be redirected to the official ones when they're created.

Today in confusing reports: a post about the EU budget was deemed a "fundraiser" by some user. I would never have guessed that without a comment.

Interesting week... We're now well over 20,000 followers across all accounts (not unique).

Some accounts have seen their followers increase tenfold in a couple days.

We clearly need more #ResPublicae posts/media to be marked as sensitive. I've taken action on one account. Later I'll survey the most followed accounts, see if this needs to be done instance-wide or on a case by case basis.

(Thanks for reporting graphic images of animal abuse, blood!)

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.