We're very happy to see #EUvoice https://social.network.europa.eu/explore, a #Mastodon instance run for the #EU by the European Commission (@EC_DIGIT + @EDPS). Hopefully it will grow and improve fast. The sooner ResPublicae.eu becomes redundant, the better.
Given the changed circumstances, there's no longer a need to consider offering local accounts in the future. The frontpage has been updated accordingly.
Maintenance is mostly over. Some files are still being restored.
The terms of service and privacy policy were updated:
https://respublicae.eu/terms
We're now running a very minimal setup on a small #Scaleway virtual machine (Debian 10) + object storage. Let's see how it goes.
respublicae.eu will go through some maintenance to switch to another hosting provider.
🇩🇪 Endlich könnt ihr Informationen der EU-Institutionen, EU-Politiker, EU-Fraktionen usw. auch über inoffizielle Mastodon-Mirrorkonten beziehen: https://respublicae.eu/explore
🇬🇧At last you can follow EU institutions, politicians and groups via inofficial Mastodon mirror accounts: https://respublicae.eu/explore
#JoinMastodon
Profile directories are also fascinating on smaller #mastodon instances, share those you like. https://respublicae.eu/explore got rather interesting even if it's quite random.
Welcome and welcome back on #Mastodon and the #fediverse!
It seems respublicae.eu got as many interactions in 12 hours as it previously got in 2 weeks.
Remember to boost generously to help people discover interesting accounts. Not everyone will use #introductions #introduction #neuhier.
ResPublicae.eu has launched! We want to make it easier to join the #EU policy discourse on the #fediverse.
For now we just mirror on #Mastodon about 1500 #Twitter accounts of EU officials and MEPs as listed by Wikidata and european-union.europa.eu/conta….
Example topics:
respublicae.eu/tags/IPCC
respublicae.eu/tags/EPlenary
Special thanks to @mastohost for the excellent service and @robertoszek for being so helpful with #Stork / #pleromabot.
pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz
Should we also mirror ~500 #nonprofits listed in the #EU transparency register? (Trade associations included.)
https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fhandle%20%3Fsitelinks%20%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Fhandle%20.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4033%20%3Fmastodon%20.%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2657%20%3Ftransparency.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ163740%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0Aorder%20by%20desc%28%3Fsitelinks%29%20limit%205000
The fixes are here! ✨ #Mastodon 3.5.1 is out, fixing some issues in the last release:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.1
Notably, instead of having to enter a code sent by e-mail to login from a new IP address, you'll now just get notified about a new sign-in.
OK, so all issues have been solved and instances are working. About half of the instances have already been updated to v3.5.0.
The rest of the update will be going much slower and probably only tomorrow it will finish.
There will still be another restart (15 seconds of downtime) even on instances that have already been updated, just to make sure I didn't miss any instance when I corrected this problem manually.
@ordnung @admin@todon.nl @LaQuadrature @trumpet @fosstodon @filippodb @milan @admin@mastodon.bida.im @CobaltVelvet @Framasoft
What about adding your #Mastodon instance to the #ActivityPub relay https://relay.social.tigwali.fr , so we can hopefully connect a bunch of #EU-based users better? 😇
FYI @nouts
Seems to work! I can see some #IPCC / #GIEC updates at e.g. https://mastouille.fr/tags/GIEC
I have now joined a handful #ActivityPub #relays (thank you for the service!).
https://mastodon-relay.thedoodleproject.net
https://relay.libranet.de
https://relay.minecloud.ro
https://relay.social.tigwali.fr
(Found via https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays .)
This understandably has caused a load spike, let's see how it goes.
I have no idea what's the #federation status of this #Mastodon instance at the moment.
There seem to be no backlogs: updates are sent immediately to followers on other instances like mamot.fr. However, most searches of profiles by name and toots by tag from other instances return nothing so far.
This will probably improve over time as people start interacting with more profiles discovered by some accident of history or by following mentions from bigger profiles.
At the moment all profiles here are marked as posting to English, the default interface language.
It will take some tinkering and/or elbow grease to update the preferences of at least the busiest profiles like @Europarl_FR @Europarl_DE @europarl_it @europarl_es @Europarl_PL @europainitalia.
Marking #languages correctly is important so that people can filter by their preferred languages and have a seamless experience even if they don't speak English.
ResPublicae.eu has launched! We want to make it easier to join the #EU policy discourse on the #fediverse.
For now we just mirror on #Mastodon about 1500 #Twitter accounts of EU officials and MEPs as listed by Wikidata and https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en.
Example topics:
https://respublicae.eu/tags/IPCC
https://respublicae.eu/tags/EPlenary
Special thanks to @mastohost for the excellent service and @robertoszek for being so helpful with #Stork / #pleromabot.
https://pleromabot.robertoszek.xyz
Admin and host of respublicae.eu. Controlled by @nemobis.
The profile and banner photos are CC-0 by W.carter and GrandCelinien.