We reactivated a few existing #ResPublicae accounts for current members of the European Commission (most were originally added here as former MEPs).
@andriuskubilius
@CHansenEU
@DanJoergensen
@dubravkasuica
@HennaVirkkunen
@MarosSefcovic
@VDombrovskis
It's obviously an outrage that #ResPublicae is still on Mastodon v3.5.
Mastodon v4 was released in 2022 but we still don't know how to satisfy some needs of ours:
1) Disable the "explore" page which pushes potentially harmful trending posts.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20848
2) Avoid promoting federated accounts and posts from the front page, especially in the profile directory and explore page.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22620#issuecomment-1363670888
3) A local profile directory.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18078#issuecomment-2566237045
Pitch There is an option in the admin page to disable public timeline preview for non-logged-in users, but that's not working for the /explore page, which is now the homepage of an instance. The PR...
Recently we've seen some increase in activity. Surely we won't come to regret it.
The suitably meta https://respublicae.eu/@EU_opendata/113743291989376019 is among the most popular posts of the past day.
(We also received the first report in many months, blank and not actionable.)
It is increasingly questionable to post on the other side and to crosspost here from there. At the same time, it's increasingly necessary to help people avoid visiting the former birdsite.
When to shut down #ResPublicae for good?
The EU is committed to offer access to open data, and unlock the potential of Linked Open Data. 📊 The EU’s open-data policy aims to encourage citizens’ participation in political and social life. Access open data 👉 https://data.europa.eu/en #EUOpenData https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hZPWBNyLac --- https://nitter.privacydev.net/EU_opendata/status/1873308041447448683#m
#ResPublicae was down for about 5 minutes as a service was killed by an OOM. Mastodon services spontaneously shut down and had to be manually restarted.
No further action is deemed necessary as we already have more memory than usually necessary. Shifting to a smaller instance would probably increase the need for manual work like this.
To reduce costs (and possibly save energy), we're experimenting with moving older files to cold storage.
For now the simplistic approach is a #Scaleway object storage lifecycle rule to move all attachments older than 180 days to the Glacier class. It's not possible for such rules to target only originals, or mp4 files, or files above a certain size.
In a few months we can consider whether to refine this approach. Feedback appreciated.
"#Nitter is dead", proclaimed the maintainer after yet more #TwitterAPI changes.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-1913361757
Some instances managed to survive a bit longer but now we're suspending updates of #ResPublicae accounts. We'll reassess in a little while.
@mapto Thanks for asking, here it is: @EUprosecutor.
If you want to code in Python you can help by patching PleromaBot: https://github.com/robertoszek/pleroma-bot/issues/131
At the moment I'm not planning to expand #ResPublicae but I'll have to decide what to do with new people after the Parliament elections. It will be less depressing to put resources into it if the mirrors actually work. ;)
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