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The query to find accounts for MEPs has been updated on our frontpage:
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!).

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

The specification envisions 5 core actor types: Application, Group, Organization, Person, Service.
w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca

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

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

@suporte One person got confused briefly before reading the bio and was swiftly helped by other people who managed to read. I fail to see what's the big deal here. I doubt that the very little "bot" icon would have made a difference.

Can you suggest a translation of "Unofficial automated mirror" in Portuguese, so we can add that too for the people who don't speak English?

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

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

@DoctorDNS When I said "here" I meant this instance, respublicae.eu. There are entire instances dedicated exclusively to politics.

@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.

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

The specification envisions 5 core actor types: Application, Group, Organization, Person, Service.
w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca

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

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

@RGrunblatt Now I'm wondering how I'd even do this.

I can use Wikidata to make a list of individuals vs. non-individuals. (Not sure it's worth it.)

Setting the bot flag doesn't seem supported by my crossposter:
gitea.robertoszek.xyz/robertos

I don't see an option in the CLI:
docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/to

So I'd probably need to change the flag directly in the database. 😬

@RGrunblatt Interesting distinction, so you think I should do this first of all for accounts in the name of individuals? (They're mostly MEPs and former MEPs.) It's an idea. I'm also not exposing those on the account directory, so they're already treated differently.

@RGrunblatt BTW just now I'm shutting down several accounts, which will be redirected to their equivalents on . This might reduce the volume of non-compliant posts you get.

@RGrunblatt I'm not personally against it, and I don't like that I'm currently not in compliance with your instance rules. I just have no idea of the effects of the change, so I'm a bit uncomfortable about it.

I'd like to reduce the replies from people who think the person might be reading them. But I'm not sure that someone who doesn't read the bio would read and understand the bot flag.

Besides, is social.network.europa.eu/@EU_C a bot too, under your definition? (Did it ever post something manual?)

@RGrunblatt I see your instance has a rule (6) that adopts this definition of bot. That's definitely your prerogative.
social.sciences.re/about/more

I'd be willing to adapt to this rule but what if other instances have incompatible rules? Do you know of other instances using the same rule?

@RGrunblatt I see. How widespread is this view of what is a bot?

«Enabling the bot flag will add a bot icon to your profile. This icon will let others know that your profile may perform automated actions, or might not be monitored by a human», says docs.joinmastodon.org/user/pro .

Because people seem to have vastly different concepts of what "bot" means, so far I thought it better to explicitly state in the bio what these accounts are. What benefit does the "bot" flag offer?

@RGrunblatt So you call "bot" every account which crossposts a human's account?

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