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.
And thanks to byte, @stefano@bsd.cafe, andypiper, pmjv, daltux, r-ricci and any others I may have missed for their contributions to this release as well!
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.84 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/29810
1 out of 3 of GitHub's Continuous Integration checks passed, which is a good sign the other two will pass as well.
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
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CC @staff and all other moderators of #mastodon servers who see this: Targeted harassment of our initiative (Gaza Verified) for trying to help Palestinians that are enduring genocide in Gaza.
This person has been chased off of nearly every server they have landed on. Please make sure yours doesn’t end up being the one that harbours them.
https://mstdn.jp/@Linux_Is_Best/115442846374150999
#fediblock #harassment #GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide
“We also do our best to keep track of various campaigns and differentiate ‘real or scam’, to the degree that we are able. For campaigns that are identified as scams, we do our best to research and prevent that traffic from coming to Hachyderm …
We also recognize that there are legitimate campaigns. One relatively new effort is the Gaza Verified project. I (Quintessence) spoke to Aral to ask questions and generally understand the process, and am comfortable confirming that 1 ) Aral is a real person who is doing the work he states and 2 ) that the people that are being listed on Gaza Verified are confirmed with in-person verification with the network that he and Joy are building. To be overclear: the work is being done, and being done the way it is being communicated.
In-person verification is slow work, as it requires each new contact to be verified by an existing contact. They also take the time to attempt to onboard people who mostly are unfamiliar with the technology we take for granted, and therefore both do not have prior exposure to cultural norms and also due to suffering, do not have a lot of mental bandwidth to ‘just learn it’.”
https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2025/10/27/a-minute-from-the-moderators/
A big thank-you to @quintessence not only for this lovely article (that goes into mental health tools to protect yourself online and which you should read in its entirety if you can) but for standing by our friends families in Gaza and for making Hachyderm.io a safe server on the fediverse (https://gaza-verified.org/guide/#servers) for people being forced to endure genocide and famine in Gaza.
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Hi everyone,
Today, @aseelfromgz, @casey, and I had the pleasure of talking to four new families from Gaza and we have the honour of welcoming them to Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Dalia Rezk and her family (@daliarezk)
• Rewaa Hamdan (and her little ones Jamal and Hamza) – Rewaa is looking for someone to help her set up her fundraiser. If you’re interested in helping, please contact me. (@Rewaa)
• Ali Nasur (@alinasur895) – I just checked and his account appears hidden on mastodon.social at the moment. (It looks like he’s contacting lots of people with the same message which was likely flagged as spam.) I’m going to be in touch with him and mastodon.social to sort this out.
• Tahreer Rashwan (@tahreersoph)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thank you again for your amazing support for our fundraiser to fund @joynewacc’s private scholarship at the University of Milan and get her evacuated from Gaza in November.
Thanks to you, we were able to raise over $15,000 in under 24 hours and meet our goal.
Joy can’t thank you herself at the moment as her family has moved to a different shelter and she is currently without Internet. We have already sent her an eSIM and hope she will be online again as soon as possible.
We’re keeping the campaign open until end of day today so if you haven’t had a chance to donate and want to, please do. The additional money we raise will go to covering any unexpected travel, lodging, or other expenses that might arise during her evacuation.
Thank you all again… you have been (and are) wonderful.
https://chuffed.org/project/help-joy-study-in-europe
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#Joy #GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid #mutualAid #evacuation #FreeJoy #FreePalestine #fediverse #Mastodon
Hello everyone,
@aseelfromgz and I had the pleasure of talking to four new friends from Palestine (and we were lucky enough to have @casey join us for two of the calls) and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Mai, who runs a camp taking care of 30 kids (@rouh)
• Saher (@SaherGaza1)
• Alaa, who is a 4th-year medical student helping the wounded in Gaza) (@alaa123)
• Sara, and her lovely little tots, Osama and Yusuf who we got to meet (@sarada9669)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
Also, Sara needs someone to help her set up a Chuffed campaign. If anyone is willing, please contact me.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Hi everyone,
@aseelfromgz, @casey, and I had the honour of meeting three friends* from Gaza via video chat and we’d like to welcome them and their families to Gaza Verified:
• Soboh Ibrahim (@Sobohs)
• Ruaa (@ruaa)
• Mohamed Al qadi (@gazalive123)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
* Our fourth chat, with, @sarada9669 sadly couldn’t go ahead for technical reasons but we’re working on rescheduling it for tomorrow and fitting it in at the end of our regularly-scheduled calls.
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
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Hey everyone,
While @joynewacc’s Internet connection is offline during her move, I was lucky enough to have @aseelfromgz with me today as we carried out today’s verification video calls for Gaza Verified and we’re happy to welcome four new accounts/families to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Mohamed Hesham – @mohamedhesham
• Naeema family – @naeemafamily
• Hema Alshaer – @hemaalshaer
• Seraj Alnajjar – @serajnjar20
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
Also, please remember that Aseel is in Gaza too and is helping others despite facing the very same challenges herself. You can help her and her family via her:
• PayPal (easier for them to get the funds): https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7DTFU9TQV44EY
• GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-aseel-and-family-leave-gaza-before-its-too-late/
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Hey everyone,
I’d like to welcome four more Palestinian friends (and their families) from Gaza to Gaza Verified.
I had the honour of speaking with them during the last hour. Joy’s Internet connection is sadly offline as she’s moving house and so it was just me in the meetings. Thankfully, everyone spoke far better English than I do Arabic and we were able to manage. It never gets easy being shown the scenes of devastation in Gaza. You see it in the news but it hits differently through someone’s mobile phone.
In any case, please give a warm welcome to our newest Gaza Verified members and their families:
• Maisa (@maisakr) – I was lucky enough to also meet Lana, one of her three children :)
• Mohamed Dawed (@Mohamed_Dawed)
• Mohammed Hamada (@mohammedhamada)
• Rawan (@Rawan_kh22)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
And while I'm thinking about it, I hope you'll consider following these accounts, too.
@JackTheCat (who I owe one beer)
Plus ten million accounts I don't know about yet.
@jbz Yeah this is a good point about #IBM and counting people for #genocide that I think they used with #machines or #computers?
All tech is used against us, no matter how it's about #Cats and fun pictures too - the programmers and coders behind a lot are not doing the people work or caring for interacting with people (so you get Mastodon etc void of much social and just good for spreadnig #caturday pics and bad news... a real problem if not doing the positives...
So not doing the people-improvement / #trust building / real social interaction to get better ourselves... is not happening (where is it?)
(and not wait for rich people or spread their #shit using #Mastodon either).
#FreeSchool for real social ✊
I'm looking for the decent fish that can talk more than 5mins.
Do you even exist?
Sorry that's much like partially shooting yourself in the foot and then blaming rich people / bad leaders.
So you if you don't see Banks as bad / funding wars - there is something seriously wrong. If you're keeping money there and going to protest - no matter how hard you #protest your money is with them and doing bad things overnight.
(Appreciate the reply by the way / let's try work on this)
I know alternatives are seemingly few or hard to do but don't let that stop you trying for those things and not just protesting -
*This* more-human part or real #boycott is part of the REAL "protest" (I.E. other protests are real but THEY ARE *JUST PROTEST* as in 'asking' / begging constantly for them to change.
Protest in many senses we know is low change / 💯 % not going to happen (a lot of protest in history!) so by not moving what power / money (or things similar) out of their control / abuse) this is basically not clever protest
(measurably not just my opinion - there is a direct power construct to paying for #war and #bad things).
I don't think you got it as much as this above (with respect) so I'm adding this...
I'm saying yes to your list as partially good but not physically changing enough in core areas. (d it all but don't avoid the more core things and not just 'support' stuff which will be infinite unless your change the core).
The picture (newer version + others added) was trying to show we are born into all this / part of the system and showing you (the public) are part of it's thinking too if you are thinking you are not part of fascist structures (the whole #State and #Bank #hierachy / #authority / #monopoly).
I know you don't want to label yourself / agree you're part of #fascism BUT if people are using banks / bad maths / cheating systems and think it's ok and just neutral numbers paying each other less calue THEN YOU ARE PART OF FASCISM AND NEED TO COME OUT OF THAT THINKING!...
VICTIMS
*I do blame* victims AFTER they know this and continue. While all victims should have a chance and need time - some are WAY TOO COMFORTABLE and went into settling for it.
No longer victim here as bourgeois (LOTS of people here very comfortable)... *and they* play their part in I'm a victim by going to the same theater or opera / shops / institutes / city.
And they think all people online are doubtful - might as well did you're own grave that way.
When the crowd pays to go in and boo the actors and want to pay bad people for their goods (and then complain). Just playing into it too much.
So there's a measurable limit even to "victim" I'm sympathetic for (to a limit), but not settling comfortably into and not even in blaming-mode constantly helps (which is a lot of #Fediverse too).
They spend 100's of hours (go check all the hashtags - again it's measurable) - but nearly nothing on forging friends... all the Tech people work on machines, code and then blame #Musk for using it. Short examples like that (more of a long chain but you get the picture).
"It's not our fault we don't like giving time to other humans online or offline and play with PlayStation Linux all day, all our life..."
#Trump #Musk bla bla bla hashtags and near-0 on building #trust / #friendship / giving #time to random people here between themselves. And poor you now getting a long detailed reasoning you might avoid replying.
Just blame and #caturday cat pics?
Na. Not working.
HOPE THAT'S CLEARER FOR YOU!
🧑🤝🧑 + 🏦 🤑 = FASCISM HIERARCHY / AUTHORITY / POWER / MUSK or whoever
Even using #Amazon back ends to fuel instances without non-interactive human instances to change... is passing time like watching one-way TV news and never using ourselves / adding others almost whoever they are.
SO WHAT NOW -
Let me know where we can go for participating in circles...
Let me know what you think of each part of this.
We're all recovering but #Mastodon etc as a #social engine is largely empty software without a kind of department dedicated to actually doing social on any deeper level than complaining - an organized social - not one way stuff ... our stuff - 2-way into deeper things, not just text but audio chat that people can dedicate to every days as part of the whole #therapy of life. And create our way out of it into the new (not spread their crap).
My whole #FreeSchool account shows I've genuinely tried to find and #failed to find much and many are not interested.
I appreciate your reply and this isn't damning you or to win in the end an argument...
....unless you choose to end it here.
About resources:
I think it is more #emotionally yes and not having will-power needs working on to encourage each other (hence having chats with people and not necessarily having to say everything but enough to really push past alone-ism)- time seems plenty for many (you can tell but their profile posts)
It's the #will or constancy in others encouraging / asking for / seeing and accepting others as imperfect (naturally) and not being so doubtful - as that scuppers any chances too.
Wwithout even testing people out people have resigned / accept fascism and even play their part.
Part of the answer we need to do is in testing and solving real communication - no more bashing #trump #ETC.
Agree? / Disagree?
Want to work on it?
⬆️ These are clear questions -
please don't avoid.
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Do you have a GitHub account?
One of the conversations at #FediForum revolved around accessibility for non-techies in the Open Social Web. One of the barriers raised was the reliance on spaces built for developers, such as GitHub. So, we're wondering, how many people on the Fediverse have a GitHub account?
Please boost so more people can interact!
#Poll #GitHub #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon #Tech
| I do: | 274 |
| I don't: | 144 |
| I do, but don't use it: | 147 |
| I don't, but I would: | 3 |
Today, @joynewacc and I had the pleasure of talking to the families behind four Mastodon accounts from Gaza over video chat and we’re very happy to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Talal Naser – https://mastodon.social/@tallalnaser1990
• Mohanad Alqadi – https://mastodon.social/@mohanad22
• Baraa family – https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998
• Sobhi – https://mastodon.social/@Sobhalgadi
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
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I used to hang out on Gab, where I mainly posted retro gaming content and avoided politics. Today I decided to pop in there to see how things were going.
I'm instantly reminded of why I started this Mastodon instance in the first place. Gab's a mess, plastered with ads, sponsored posts, donation requests & broken image links. Worst yet, there's no way to escape politics.
I'm genuinely perplexed as to why people still use that site
boostedHello everyone,
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to four lovely people from Gaza today over video chat and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Mohamed Naji – @mohamednaji
• Rania Rizq – @Rania
• Ibrahim – @ibrahim46
• Islam and her family – @eslamradwan1_D_5
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Hier noch mal für viele #NeuHier und auch denen die es nicht sehen. Das
So sieht das Fediverse in Wirklichkeit aus.
So happy to see that we have three full days of verification interviews lined up (starting today) and that slots are already filling up for next Tuesday (we hold the interviews on weekdays) :)
https://gaza-verified.org/people/#scheduled-for-verification
There are a few niggles I’m working on ironing out and a few improvements I’ve got lined up to improve the experience but the main functionality seems to be working 🤞
If you are from Gaza and want your Mastodon account verified so we can protect it from attacks and protect you from scammers, please schedule a verification interview:
https://gaza-verified.org/join/
#Gaza #Palestine #Mastodon #fediverse #GazaVerified #FreePalestine
Hey everyone, the new Gaza Verified web site is now live!
If you’ve been waiting for verification, you can now sign up for a video call (the first ones will be tomorrow).
The fall poll 😂
It's that time of year again.
Visitors in many apartments and houses.
Yes, we're talking about spiders 🕷️🕸️
How do you feel about them?
Are you afraid of spiders?
A boost for more results would be nice
Comments would also be cool 😁
#mastodon #fediverse #autumn #spiders #fear #survey #comments #comment #life #apartment #boost #spider #poll
| Yes, I am afraid.: | 7 |
| No, I'm not afraid.: | 21 |
| I don't care about them.: | 8 |
| I'll just carry them out.: | 22 |
In the next few weeks, I feel like I wanna write a personal #mastodon #algorithm. Track my interests, likes, follows, hashtags, etc, and create a list of suggested #toots.
@inthehands Have to be honest that is good advice, but also you find people are almost same-same everywhere... they just like short writing... and fascist (uncaring / money-based) but in a different department (fascists is an offending but really people don't care much to change).
So what I mean for those that cn read, is that people are ignoring a lot of life, so they aren't fascist in one way or totally (even though believing in Government hierachy and banks IS FASCISM) but they ignore people and then they love tech (kind of not Musk but all roads lead...),
People are not fascist but believe in money and don't see banks or numbers as bad, STEM thinks STEM is ok without seeing people, acknoledging there is such things as negative math spirals, and can't see Tech or anything as political (bad owners while using nicer-looking 'green' material). People are not using moral mind and still in material word.... list goes on. And it's true it ALL checkmates yourself but this IS THE WORK TO BE BASHING THROUGH. Especially if the #Left or #Liberal also turn out to be quite a lot believing in fascistic component.
And as a meta-perspective people can only deal with short text so already lost by this paragraph... better to stay short / fascist / old world ignorant people than to explain all this and agree on parts / build a better future... (from beginning to the end)
IT'S ALL ONE WAY MOSTLY as " social " even on Mastodon.
No software aims to put actual people doing the social (more just develop the software)- #Mastodon included)... Where are they pushing people to meet and build (for non-code?)
Sounds like I'm knocking things - I'm not - just social people don't exist.
Just show me ...
or let us two do it and grow some social here more than a few long thread mostly about Tech and frankly bourgeoisie converations...
it's futile, fleeting and crushing here like a needle in a haystack that my account shows (I had also accounts before this similar).
A lot of time people just get blocked by those they see as a hero or whatever just for writing a lot.
IT'S MOSTLY ALL ONE WAY - maybe I'm not into fooling people WHILE you can get nice comments and some social back. But it's in between the rest of like and crap news taking over instead of positive vehicles of constant chat and social people pushing that.
You be the change, I'm here.
Not many more.
#FreeSchool is for real.