ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

More #MastoAdmin trivia/transparency for #ResPublicae.

The main operating cost for this instance is arguably RAM. 4 GB is more than enough, but it's nice to have some buffer. A DB crashing for lack of memory is not fun.

CPU usage varies a lot (but predictably) with traffic. We're on cheap shared CPUs, and 40 % steal CPU at the peak doesn't sound great, but the min idle CPU is over 10 %, so we never really run out of CPU due to bad neighbours. #Scaleway seems to be good enough at scheduling.

Ah. The date has been moved.
https://betweenthelions.link/@ne1for23/109861011947999276

Mysteriously, our API access is still working. It's still February 13th in Honolulu for a few hours though...

In light of the #TwitterAPI confusion, #ResPublicae accounts may go silent any time now.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/06/elon-promises-a-free-api-for-good-bot-content-again-demonstrating-he-has-no-idea-how-any-of-this-works/

The #TwitterDevelopers forum was also shut down.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230201030451/https://twittercommunity.com/

We'll work on a solution (or not) whenever we receive official information on what's going to happen to our API keys. We're definitely not going to pay 100 $/month though.
https://github.com/robertoszek/pleroma-bot/issues/120

@JackWolf Sorry about that, clearly #ResPublicae mirroring doesn't go in that direction. Please mute the entire instance (if you didn't already), we won't be offended.

@petrescatraian No, there isn't, but you can send patches to #PleromaBot to implement a feature to map Twitter mentions to fediverse mentions.
https://pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz/pleroma-bot/

We redirect #ResPublicae accounts to #EUVoice official accounts when possible and useful (for example https://respublicae.eu/@EUCourtPress ). The @EU_Commission account provides better mirroring features compared to the often broken mirror at https://social.network.europa.eu/users/EU_Commission , so it wasn't redirected yet.

@nellie_m@home.social That's a good point and you can send #a11y comments to the relevant #EU service with Europe Direct:
https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/write-us/answering-your-questions_en

Description of images in the European Commission accounts mirrored in #ResPublicae is typically provided in the text of the post or in the linked documents. Sometimes you unfortunately have to follow links through Nitter.

In this case for example the description of the image is "cloud-free view of the Viedma and Argentino glacial lakes in Argentina".

One issue of an excessive usage of the "bot" flag is that #Pixelfed users cannot follow #Mastodon accounts marked as #bots.
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2098

#MastoMeta #FediMeta

The top 5 most followed accounts include:

@vonderleyen
@EU_Commission
@CopernicusEU
@EUClimateAction

#ResPublicae followers were well over 50,000 yesterday.

Activity is now picking up again with the new #TwitterMigration wave.

Follow links to the sources through Nitter to verify posts.

Due to unexpected output in Twitter's v1 API, some quote tweets have been posted on #ResPublicae as if they were authored by the quoted user.

The issue is now handled by our mirror sofware #PleromaBot thanks to swift action by the developer. It lasted perhaps a few hours while a new version was being tested.

The cases we noticed were deleted manually.

We apologise for the confusion.

Don't forget to donate to your friendly local #Nitter instance! Think of all the surveillance and abuse you and your friends are saved from every time you use Nitter... 🛡️

https://lacontrevoie.fr/participer/#don offers many avenues for contribution, including membership and donations.

Several other Nitter instances are hosted by non-profits you can donate to:
https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

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