Should have used the official EU Petition portal (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/) instead of some US website i rather not share my data with.

pretty disappointing for a party that has the EU as its main topic.

Aren’t Mastodon instances maintained by volunteers in their spare time? I can’t imagine how they manage to continue moderating it once there are ten thousand or millions of users on it. At least the moderators on Twitter were paid. It was their job. I think people massively underestimate how much work this is.