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   Fabio Manganiello (fabio@manganiello.eu)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 22:29:24 JST Fabio Manganiello

   A quick communication to our wonderful friends in #Gaza.

   A few of you may have experienced limitations/suspensions on your accounts, especially on the main instance.

   First of all, I want to reiterate that this isn’t anything personal against you or a sign that @staff is not sympathetic with the #GazaVerified initiative - they’ve shown quite the opposite so far.

   Actions against accounts are only taken when several reports (usually for spam) are received and the moderation team is left with no choice.

   However, these restrictions are usually lifted when we talk to instance admins and explain them the situation, and those of you who are impacted pledge to use mentions more responsibly.

   Mastodon is still a platform that welcomes you, and we’ll make sure that this will keep being the case.

   Second, a common message I’ve heard in your appeals is “but we only tagged our friends and people sympathetic with our cause“.

   After so many reports, I started finding it increasingly unlikely that any of us would ever report you for spam - and repeatedly.

   So I’ve taken a closer look at some of the lists of users that some of you commonly tag and I’ve started to notice some patterns that may explain the reports (or at least some of them).

   Unlike centralized platforms like X or Instagram (or even Bluesky, where most of the people are on the main server), instances matter here.

   So my username (@fabio@manganiello.eu) is different from @fabio@mastodon.social, or any @fabio@something.com. Those are different people with accounts on different servers.

   I’m bringing mine as an example, but I have noticed several occurrences where some of you probably tagged people by typing @username, saw a couple of options in the dropdown, and unsure on who is the right one you included a few of them.

   When you send that message, those people will get a notification - and they may not be me nor any of your friends.

   If someone keeps getting notifications from strangers to donate to an initiative they’ve never heard of, and without any way to tell if you’re genuine or not, after a few times they may simply report you for spam. And that explains limitations and suspensions.

   So please, when you send messages that include many mentions, always make sure that the handles you have included match those on our profiles. That may prevent a lot of unsolicited notifications to people who may not be very sensitive with your calls for help.

   Finally, we do our best to boost your voices, and we’ll keep doing so. But we also want you to have your own voice heard on a social media platform that is actually open to listen to you, with no need for our boosts. If you build your own following then you won’t need a few of us to boost your posts - people will follow you because of what you say or show to them.

   I built the @gaza_verified_accounts bot exactly to boost your voices, so anyone who follows that bot sees all of your posts, even if they don’t follow each of you individually.

   If you post your genuine stories that actually move people, then that bot is likely to be followed by many - and your own voices heard by many.

   One last thing, you don’t have to tag @gaza_verified_accounts or @gaza_verified_campaigns explicitly. Those are automated accounts and I never check their notifications.

   It isn’t easy for me to deliver these messages by the way.

   I can only imagine in a remote corner of my mind how tough things must be for you.

   I can only imagine how I would behave on the Internet if it was my own life to be in peril, and if I had to fight for basic necessities on a daily basis.

   I feel like I shouldn’t be here preaching technical details about social media or netiquette to people literally going through hell.

   But I’m here to make sure that your voices are heard, that they touch as many people as possible, and that they keep being heard.

   Stay strong, we’re on your side ♥️

   @aral @gazaverified

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   Fionn (osslate@mastodon.ie)'s status on Monday, 10-Nov-2025 09:40:59 JST Fionn

   in reply to

   @BrodieOnLinux you DO control your comment section and other forums you can moderate, though. You DO have influence over your fans. They trust you, they listen to you. Whether you recognize it or not, you have power here.

   So use it. Make a simple statement to your fans to stop harassing him. Let them know that abusing and brigading open source projects isn't fine, and you won't tolerate it in your community. Remove abusive comments and personalized statements about the developer.

   Bare minimum.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Monday, 23-Jun-2025 19:11:28 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Megatrends are the Energizer Bunny of the future. They keep going and going, presenting opportunities for those prepared to act!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   One of the chapters in Dancing in the Rain had to do with the "Megatrends" - something I blogged about way back in May, and again a few weeks ago. Lots of folks asked me to expand on that material, and so  I'm starting a series that will cover each of the Megatrends. This will run through the next 6 weeks in my Daily Inspiration, interrupted on occasion by things that might be crossing my mind or impacting my life.

   I'll be using a new AI-based presentation tool, Gamma.app, to pull together this material. It's good! Here's the Gamma summary of today's material - you'll find the full PDF here.

   So why do the megatrends matter? That's because, as I note in the book and today's quote - they're the Energizer Bunny of the future, We might have a downturn, a recession, uncertainty - but the megatrends will keep marching on.

   I will be taking a look at each of these trends through the next few weeks, to give you a sense of what's coming, and where the opportunities are. My goal? To get you out of your economic funk and into the mindset of where the big future is going to take us through the next 5 to 10 years! There will also be a Website at megatrends.jimcarroll.com - I just haven't built it yet!

   Stay tuned!

   Oh, and go and grab those sample chapters!

   #Megatrends #Future #Innovation #Intelligence #Energy #Healthcare #Manufacturing #Technology #Transformation #Opportunities

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/06/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-30-megatrends-intro-megatrends-are-the-energizer-bunny-of-the-future-they-keep-going-and-going-presenting-opportunities-for-those-pr/

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   `Da Elf (elfin@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 02:27:23 JST `Da Elf

   in reply to

   @technotenshi "Bribed Staff" is the Take-Away here.

   So, the people working for CoinBase can be bought. I wonder now about the staff of the other Coins. Just idle curiosity, mind you.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 08:02:15 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   in reply to

   @realcaseyrollins

   So short answer, he does exactly what every single person who picks a side in this debate (or any debate) and digs in tends to do... He uses every true thing he can say to his advantage, and completely denies every true thing that works against his pov as a lie (with little or no evidence to back it).

   A good test, did he have anything at **all** critical to say against his own argument? anything? nope?

   Now look at our past arguments, I clearly have picked a side out of the two. But do you see me trying to claim my side is perfect no. Look at the person arguing against him, does he admit wrong doing on both sides, or just the side he is against? That will always tell you more about who is at least being intellectually honest in any debate and it clearly isnt Dave here.

   So I will largely just reiterate my point ive made many many times before. The situation is, within the lifetime of a single person we have israel carrying out biological (infectious disease) warfare on the Palestinians in the first days of the war, they win that war, using the most vile and inappropriate of terrorism, on a scale that palestine has never came close to attempting themselves. This is accepted fact, even israel doesnt deny it. Everything else has followed from that act.

   @Murray_N

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   The Index (theindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 20:02:34 JST The Index

   MAGA has nothing left to offer except more of the same: more screaming, more outrage, more rot. It's all downhill from here.

   So what do we make of men like John Fetterman and Gavin Newsom, who now seem desperate to cozy up to it?
   https://www.theindex.media/this-is-the-dumbest-time-to-buy-into-maga/