ResPublicae.eu admin @praetor@respublicae.eu

As long as we're running, our APIs are open. In case of shutdown, we'll do our best to deposit an #opendata dump on #Zenodo, so that any research value of the dataset isn't lost.

The overall database we can share in #CC0 but no single license on the text and media would be available.

Some data scrubbing might also be needed if #Mastodon doesn't yet provide a native way to provide dumps of public-only information.

This service is experimental and offered without promises of permanence.

We're mostly a privacy-friendly mirror or proxy which offers some more features than #Nitter by virtue of integrating directly on the #fediverse.

A long-term #digitalpreservation service for the EU's communication on social media would be useful, but we're not such a service. (A suitable institutional home would need to be found.)

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.

#mastoadmin

respublicae.eu will go through some maintenance to switch to another hosting provider.

#mastoadmin

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.

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

@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.

#i18n #l10n #g11n