ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

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Hopefully this additional load is welcome and our redirects don't overload the server! 😅 Now we can more easily switch away if our usage is unwelcome.

The #ResPublicae crossposter now points to our own domain https://n.respublicae.eu so that we can update its target to whichever privacy-friendly EU instance of #Nitter is most suitable at any given time.

Thanks nitter.eu and nitter.it for the service so far, and thanks to @ChatonsOrg member @lacontrevoie for providing https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr! We were immediately seduced by the clear and well-principled privacy policy: https://lacontrevoie.fr/mentions-legales/ .

@jeppe We're in contact with the folks at #EUVoice, they let us know when such new accounts appear and we redirect the unofficial ones. Hopefully they soon get all the commissioners!

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

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!).

@jonasnuts @PauloJCGFranco Definitely! Please tell them to copy https://social.bund.de/ so that mirrors aren't needed any more. :)

@suporte Thanks for contacting. What kind of confusion was created?

@DoctorDNS You have a point but everything here is politics so all posts would have a CW. For now you can also mute the entire domain, see example from the web interface.

@RGrunblatt Sooo. #Mastodon marks #bots as actor_type "Service" whereas other users are "Person".

The #ActivityPub specification envisions 5 core actor types: Application, Group, Organization, Person, Service.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#actor-types

Is other #Fediverse software like #Pleroma fine with using "Service" for accounts about a Person or Organization?

Dear #MastoAdmin and #FediAdmin, does your instance have any hard rules on (not) using the "bot" flag for #crossposting?

#MastoMeta #FediMeta