ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

I've reviewed incoming reports about a couple accounts, possibly triggered by one of them getting one (1) follower on troet.cafe.

The most serious report was about a probably transphobic post. On the fediverse it would at least need a CW for offensive content, discussion of state violence. The account is now limited.

To understand better, I'd like a private discussion with someone (preferably trans) who knows German and is up to date with current trans policy discussions in Germany.

An alternative list of #ResPublicae accounts is now also linked, with the names of national parties and citizenships.
https://w.wiki/6eaK

People sometimes have strong opinions about specific national parties but not necessarily about the European Parliament groups.

Easier lists should make it easier also for moderators of other instances to apply account-level blocks as needed according to their rules (which sometimes don't map easily to EU-level concepts).

Currently going through a backlog of about one week. No wonder activity was lower than usual as of late!

Amid long-delayed changes at #Twitter, it seems our mirroring bot no longer works correctly from its usual location, though it seems to work from another machine. It could be that our #TwitterAPI key was revoked and/or our IP address blacklisted. Or maybe something weirder.

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.