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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 22:31:44 JST Aral Balkan

   Folks, this is a general Gaza Verified message.

   Please note that while we know the unconscionable situation people in Gaza are having to go through, we are also seeing a rise (from a small number of people) of massing tagging of people in messages and unsolicited direct messages.

   To our friends and families in Gaza Verified: this is against the rules of almost every server, including the one your account is on and it will get your account limited or suspended. It is also against our rules (see https://gaza-verified.org/guide/ or, in Palestinian Arabic: https://gaza-verified.org/guide-arabic/) as we don’t want your accounts to get limited/suspended.

   If your account is suspended by your server for no reason or as discrimination for who you are, we will challenge that and, if necessary, help you find a new server (see our friendly servers list in the guide).

   And we have also worked with some of you to help explain the rules and advocate on your behalf when your accounts were suspended for mass tagging or unsolicited direct messages.

   However, with a small number of accounts, we have seen the same behaviour continue the moment the account is reinstated.

   In such situations, we cannot help you further. And we will not verify any new accounts you create to avoid these suspensions.

   The goal of Gaza Verified from the start was to ensure that Mastodon and the fediverse was a safe space for our Palestinian friends and, with the help of many server admins, I believe we have, for the most part, succeeded in creating a space where Palestinians are respected and valued. But this is a two-way street. It is also important to that the people here who care and want to help are not constantly subjected to directed messages imploring them to help. Many of those who help are not well off themselves and they help when and how they can.

   The best thing about Mastodon and the fediverse is that it is a place where you can build genuine friendships. Everything else will flow from this.

   So I beg our friends in Gaza to see the long-term value of being part of a community that cares and hopefully talking to one another and helping ensure that a very small number of accounts doesn’t jeopardise that for everyone for short-term gain.

   To our friends and families in Gaza, I do not presume to tell you how to use Mastodon or the fediverse but here are some of my thoughts based on what I’ve seen in the past half-year of Gaza Verified’s existence:

   1. Please don’t see this as a competition with each other. We all know that everyone who is in Gaza needs help.
   2. Please try and make genuine connections with people here. Share your everyday experiences. People will follow you and they will engage with you. And from that, some of them will no doubt also help you.
   3. Please don’t target messages that try to guilt people who have helped in the past to help again. If they can help, they will. Please remember that they may not be in the best financial situation either.

   For those of you reading who want to know how they can help, there are two main ways:

   1. Check out the list of Gaza Verified accounts at https://gaza-verified.org/donate (ranked by those who raised the least in the past week
   2. Perhaps pick someone and try and organise monthly patronages for them so they can have a certain amount of money coming in every month (call it a universal basic income, if you will, or crowdfunded income redistribution, etc.) so they can pay their rent and/or basic necessities. We just successfully did that for Aseel, one of our Gaza Verified team members, where 17 patrons, including me, are paying her family’s rent. If there was more of this, there would be less need for these families, who are facing genocide and famine, to keep asking for donations.

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 17:16:22 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   @raphaellakay @gaza_verified_campaigns @fabio @Dawed_for_Gaza I’ve now removed the old account from the list.

   As I said earlier, we will consider adding his new account if he agrees to abide by the rules at https://gaza-verified.org/guide/ and doesn’t send out unsolicited DMs. (Otherwise, his new account will also get suspended as it did on mastodon.social after repeated warnings, suspensions, appeals – that we took part in, etc.)

   Mohamed, if you will promise me that you will abide by the rules of the server you’re on, we will carry out a new video verification call when calls reopen and verify your new account.

   If it gets suspended for the same reason as before, however, there isn’t anything more we can do as we can’t keep doing this. It’s reflecting badly on the other members and taking up a disproportionate amount of our time that should be spent protecting accounts from unwarranted suspensions.

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 22-Sep-2025 19:38:22 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   @M0YNG They’re not part of Gaza Verified yet. I’ve reached out to schedule a call with them and sent them a link to our guide (https://gaza-verified.org/guide/), well, to the Arabic version (https://gaza-verified.org/guide-arabic/).

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 18:08:13 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   @lolorenad Hi Lolo, can @joynewacc and I set up a video chat with you today for Gaza Verified?

   Can you please add me on Signal Messenger (my account is aral.42).

   If you need help with downloading Signal, please see https://gaza-verified.org/guide/ and you can also just ask us by replying to this.

   Thank you + looking forward to hopefully speaking with you soon.

   💕

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   prefeito :hiddenDisability: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Monday, 08-Sep-2025 23:15:06 JST prefeito :hiddenDisability:

   Sua instância é amiga dos palestinos?
   @fediadminbr

   Aral está reunindo uma lista de perfis verificados de palestinos que estão precisando de ajuda.

   🍉 https://gaza-verified.org

   Ao mesmo tempo, está listando também aquelas instâncias onde eles são bem-vindos.

   Há muitos servidores que compraram a narrativa dos opressores e são hostis a palestinos.

   Mas se sua instância, por outro lado, é amiga da Palestina, envie uma mensagem para Aral e veja ela incluída aqui:

   🍉 https://gaza-verified.org/guide/

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 21:12:41 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   @Dr_Nadeen98 Hi Nadeem, welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse. I hope you and your family are safe.

   Can you please add me on Signal Messenger (aral.42) so we can arrange a time next week to have a quick video chat with @joynewacc and me after which I can add you to Gaza Verified, which will hopefully help you with raising funds here.

   If you need help finding Signal, please see the guide or ask me here: https://gaza-verified.org/guide/

   💕