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“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 those being forced to endure genocide and famine in Gaza.

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