The #Wikidata query to find #ResPublicae accounts for MEPs has been updated on our frontpage:
https://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!).
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 It could be that our #TwitterAPI key was revoked and/or our IP address blacklisted.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.
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
The top 5 most followed accounts include:
#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/ .
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
The #Wikidata query to find #ResPublicae accounts for MEPs has been updated on our frontpage:
https://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. #Mastodon marks #bots as actor_type "Service" whereas other users are "Person".
The #ActivityPub specification envisions 5 core actor types: Application, Group, Organization, Person, Service.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#actor-types
Is other #Fediverse software like #Pleroma fine with using "Service" for accounts about a Person or Organization?
Dear #MastoAdmin and #FediAdmin, does your instance have any hard rules on (not) using the "bot" flag for #crossposting?
Today in confusing reports: a post about the EU budget was deemed a "fundraiser" by some user. I would never have guessed that without a comment.
Interesting week... We're now well over 20,000 followers across all accounts (not unique).
Some accounts have seen their followers increase tenfold in a couple days.
We clearly need more #ResPublicae posts/media to be marked as sensitive. I've taken action on one account. Later I'll survey the most followed accounts, see if this needs to be done instance-wide or on a case by case basis.
(Thanks for reporting graphic images of animal abuse, blood!)
Once again, folks, please use the comment field when reporting a user. If you report a post about the latest apple harvest numbers, without any explanation, there's not much this #MastoAdmin can do to guess why.
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