soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Hey everyone,
Today @joynewacc and I had video chats over Signal with four people from Gaza who, along with their families, are struggling to survive Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
I’d like to welcome them all to Gaza Verified.
• @shathamohammed123
• @Dr_Nadeen98
• @Sakhergaza13
• And Mahmoud, who is not on the site yet as we need to find a safe sever and a new account for him and explain to you what happened with his earlier accounts first.
Please give them a warm welcome to the fediverse, follow them, and help their fundraisers if you can. And please share this so others can do the same.
Thank you 💕
#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #fediverse #Mastodon #fediAid
Just updated Gaza Verified to reflect that @joynewacc and I are running it together now :)
Thank you, Joy, for doing this with me in the middle of everything you have to deal with. You’re amazing!
💕
#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #fediverse #mastodon
Folks, just a quick heads up: I’m in touch over Signal with Mahmoud from the “Help Mahmoud Family” accounts you might have seen contacting you.
Like you, I was hugely suspicious of them due to the many accounts and automated spam-like messages (I also reported and had one of them taken down as a scam).
It’s looking to me now like this was more of a misguided (and understandably, given the circumstances) desperate attempt to get help.
I ask that we keep an open mind and offer Mahmoud and his family the benefit of the doubt.
Here are the steps we’ll be taking with Mahmoud going forward to try and fix this and give him a proper introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse and hopefully rebuild trust:
1. Joy and I will meet Mahmoud for a video chat next week.
2. Once we’re happy, I will contact a friend who runs a Mastodon server to ask that Mahmoud is allowed to set up his one (and only Mastodon account there). This way, we will also know that the account will be safe in the future.
3. Mahmoud has already agreed not to use automated messages in the future.
I will update you about the state of things next week, after our video conversation.
@mc Seems about right what you said... and I was going to ask how intelligence might look in today's world...
Maybe creating something big but even with that seems what clever people lack as character or training in their personality so even those super-programmers etc can't see to involve people who are medium-intelligence or middle-grounds of people / diversity). And so this maybe widens the gap like a people without apprenticeship or apprentices... (electrician teaching a new electrician or even grandparents in the day passing on knowledge).
So I agree. And I'm not sure what would be intelligence without actually working together as that meaning (what do you think of that)...
I can imagine a revolutionary 'new' thing made by people but it would just be wasted intelligence or wasted tool or new toy / new tech code thing we don't really need more than the human stuff... and like the rest happening now the good is just used against ourselves or to distract us eventually...
And this is almost shown by #Mastodon which might still have a big chance if people really make #living / practicing #intelligence or what they truly love and liek together while seeing need to incorporate that mass of affinity or friendships (and both sometimes).... Hope that makes sense... The last lines should be clear.
It seems it's a #human thing, always #fighting to kill an enemy together (#wars keep us productive and busy) and then end up fighting each other when that's done or as separate states/countries. Just never enough...
Even though I do think 'switching' the brain totally to what we love and like can keep us focused and less out of trouble for everyone so enough things are made with love / care etc, rather than diss / throw stones at things / hate everything... like even #Trump and all these leaders people hate (hundred on those #Musk #Bezos #GAFAM #Mata hashtags... but what of building their own group or schools of thought for themselves to work and own culture.... besides hating... Hm!
Well this is my effort
#FreeSchool is my hashtag for my version of 'follow and believe in me'. I think people can be allowed to do most things... and it is measurable but developing on Tech and not people isn't enough at all...
What do you think?
Announcing Gaza Verified
I’ve been having video conversations over Signal with people from Gaza who have Mastodon accounts on the fediverse in an effort to vouch for their authenticity.
This week, I whipped up a site to formalise this and to enable them to add a verified link to their Mastodon bios. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of time they need to spend proving that their accounts genuinely belong to a person suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and help them with their fundraisers.
The first four accounts belong to:
• @Aseelsehwel
• @NouranKhaledGh
• @joynewacc
• @mohshbair
If you want to get on the site, please contact me. See the guide for more information: https://gaza-verified.org/guide
Please share and donate to their fundraisers if you can.
Thank you!
💕
CC @palestine
#Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #fediverse #mastodon #verification
Viele kennen Mastodon – aber das Fediverse ist viel mehr 🌐✨
In meinem neuen Video erkläre ich, wie Mastodon, Peertube & Co. zusammenhängen, was Dezentralität bedeutet und wie du deine Instanz findest. 🚀
👉 Hier geht’s zum Video: https://youtu.be/24c6MfOnfQo
Auf Peertube: https://videos.spacefun.ch/w/xa8Mp5cDyUBNjrAbLpGTGk
#Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Mastodon #Friendica #Peertube
Nepal government bans 26 social media including Facebook, YouTube, X 👉 This includes #signal and #mastodon https://www.nepalitelecom.com/2025/09/social-media-facebook-youtube-ban-in-nepal.html #nepal
Okay, so @lpl has provided us a theme for Thursday Five List of "Beneath the Waves."
So...let's get aquatic.
The Beatles - Octopus's Garden https://song.link/us/i/1474833927
Everglow and TheFatRat - Ghost Light https://song.link/us/i/1651649795
Parry Gripp - Manatee Demanding a Pickle https://song.link/us/i/1582619765
Mastodon - Seabeast https://song.link/us/i/65923010
They Might Be Giants - Underwater Woman https://song.link/us/i/977823911
#Music #ThursdayFiveList #BeneathTheWaves #ParryGripp #Everglow #TheFatRat #TheBeatles #TheyMightBeGiants #TMBG #Mastodon
Weird behaviour in mastodon web client (v4.4.3) that I've noticed happening fairly often:
When I turn my laptop on in the morning and fire up the browser, I see my last post sitting in the compose box. This is not a draft, it's something that's already been sent and replied to.
Bug?
@openrightsgroup MP3 Version
#Social media is an "unhealthy online environment".
The problem is the #business #model which underpins these #monopolistic platforms to:
➡️ promote #ragebait
to rake in the money. 💰
Jim Killock told #BBC News what needs to be done around #SocialMedia:
✅ Competition
✅ User empowerment
✅ #Decentalization / #Decentalized #Platforms
#OpenRightsGroup #SocialMedia #Health #BBC #JimKillock
#Decentralised #Platforms / #Decentralisation #Mastodon #Fediverse
#Audio about #Advertising
#BusinessModel of #SocialMedia is #Commercial
My #Answer is building another "society" ON TOP OF #MASTODON #PEERTUBE ETC -
NOT JUST MORE TECH AND #TECHIES - develop people themselves!
We're mostly just developing tech and not developing people...
(and then complaining about #society and people falling for the same traps used by #tech ).
Without organised #circles or dedicated #talks IN MASTODON (or any #decentalised or #centralised #platform) people do not know how to be nice / what to consider / what to look out for (all normal in new relationships) / what do if this or that... / how to WORK WITH someone new / where and when to go regularly somewhere...
Some chat happens but is that it as a Mastodon #movement? ❓ (any groups with just a donate button and nobody to talk to)
Such a lack of depth... 📉
Without some training, we the society are lost / undirected online / offline. Sorry but best time to plant a tree / invest in a person is now!
Let's chat (as positive ending and action needed between reader and I - more if we can imagine it).
@openrightsgroup @jim GOOD VIDEO...
SHORT VERSION REPLY
The #Answer is building another "society" ON TOP OF #MASTODON - rather than just develop more tech.
We're mostly just developing tech and not developing people
(and then complaining about #society and people falling for the same traps used by tech ).
Without organised #circles or dedicated #talks IN MASTODON (on any #decentalised or #centralised #platform) people do not know how to be nice / what to consider / what to look out for that's normal in new relationships / what do if this or that... / how to do it WITH someone there / where to go regularly...
Ok some chat happens... but is that it for Mastodon as a #movement? ❓
Such a lack of depth...
Without some training, we're lost / undirected online. Sorry.
And let chat (positive ending / action needed).
===============
LONGER VERSION:
===============
Rather than using social media for mostly #hating or fearing things (#Trump #Musk #Bezos #apple #news etc)... build our own society or just increment friendships and trust (must be a way).
Develop better people AT THE SAME TIME. Not just develop tech...
Time to invest in people.
Time invested in people gives back in ways to #community [opportunity, work, listening, tutoring/teaching, other coincidental help / better examples / daily place to go to].
Developing people is the solution now we have the #Technology ....
➡️ (i.e. #MASTODON + #JITSI is ENOUGH to heal / speak / listen / send / receive))
OR #MASTODON = TEXT / PIC
+ #JITSI = AUDIO / VIDEO
+ #NEXTCLOUD = FILES
Develop caring CIRCLES OF people and everything else will come better with it. Might seem a long investment but we have to do the long work anyway because cutting corners and is cutting ourselves off with #short #textism.
Need to be dedicate to people PERSONAL #CARING IN #CIRCLES.
⭕ ↔️ 🔁
The Answer is NOT JUST MASTODON and leaving people to their quite poor levels of friendliness and own fear... !
(that's why scratching the surface you can find people are JUST LIKE ON #twitter sometimes once we get deeper in #comments and #suggestions).
it's emotional intelligence & incrementing the #art of #friendship and #courage... at the same time as having Mastodon... CIRCLES. ⭕ ↔️ 🔁
( using Jitsi #chat rooms for example https://jitsi.freifunk-duesseldorf.de/chatroom12345 )
Building #Emotional #Intelligence + Friendships
= #Intelligent People
= #Better #humanity
#FREESCHOOL ANYONE?
People need to come #together (#decentalized or not that's the aim!)
===================
P.S # JITSI CHAT = INSTANT!
2 CLICKS, NO INSTALL, NO REG, NO GOOGLE ACC, NO ZOOM INSTALL, ANY PLATFORM!
AUDIO OR VIDEO CHATTING!
TEST IT ALONE - EXAMPLE HERE...
Since the last update, in the #Mastodon #webClient image #altText is not shown until you click on the image, but it is in the source code for screen readers. Here it's not in the source code, and being an audio file it doesn't pop-up in the browser to let you see the text.
Social media is an "unhealthy online environment" 🤒
The problem lies with the business model that underpins these monopolistic platforms: they promote ragebait to rake in the money.
ORG's @jim told BBC News what needs to be done:
✅ Competition
✅ User empowerment
✅ Decentralisation
Watch Now ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/xfGQA53TQ51qB4FPDFFH6p
#socialmedia #freespeech #interoperability #fediverse #federatedsocialmedia #ukpolitics #mastodon #bluesky #ukpol #musk #twitter #x #meta #threads #fedi #grahamlinehan
It is so weird that #Mastodon has invested the work to render posts that come with HTML from other ActivityPub implementations in nice looking ways but still refuses to allow its own users to enrich posts with any formatting because … reasons :(
Also thanks to: martijndeb, xvello, zen, daltux and anyone else I may have missed!
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.82 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/29259
The GitHub Continuous Integration checks are still running.
Assuming they complete OK, it's still up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit
Freeradical.zone is a Mastodon server about infosec, privacy, technology, leftward politics, cats and dogs.
This server has been online since 2017.
You can find out more at https://freeradical.zone/about or contact the admin @tek
#FeaturedServer #InfoSec #Privacy #Technology #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
That's a deflection again. Nobody doubts that technically both #activitypub and #atproto support decentralization.
But the point is that *in practice* basically all #bluesky users are concentrated on infrastructure of a single company under US jurisdiction, while #mastodon users are distributed over many servers in many jurisdictions all over the world.
The consequences can be seen with Mississippi.
https://mastodon.social/@ikuturso/115124768664434731
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/115125132980066617