Starvation is their weapon, silence is their shield. Gaza is being crushed under hunger and darkness.
We’re still human. We still deserve life. Your click now could be the light that saves my family 🙏🏻💔
Starvation is their weapon, silence is their shield. Gaza is being crushed under hunger and darkness.
We’re still human. We still deserve life. Your click now could be the light that saves my family 🙏🏻💔
Rififi
in reply to Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉 • • •Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉
in reply to Rififi • • •Does he have a WhatsApp number or any easy-to-contact account?
Aral Balkan
in reply to Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉 • • •I am sorry but your accounts are displaying bot-like behaviour. I’m being contacted by different accounts (eg., also mas.to/@Mahmoudgaza95/11516182…). Another account with the same fundraiser was on troet.cafe and had hundreds of automated posts and also linked to gaza-verified.org without permission.
I see three possibilities:
1. The campaign is real but there is someone else creating bot accounts on the fediverse either in a misguided attempt to help or to discredit it as a scam.
2. The campaign is real and you are using bot accounts and creating lots of different accounts to promote it.
3. The campaign is fake.
In case of #2 and #3, we cannot add you to gaza-verified.org.
#3 is obvious. #2 I will document today on the site. People who
... pokaż więcejI am sorry but your accounts are displaying bot-like behaviour. I’m being contacted by different accounts (eg., also mas.to/@Mahmoudgaza95/11516182…). Another account with the same fundraiser was on troet.cafe and had hundreds of automated posts and also linked to gaza-verified.org without permission.
I see three possibilities:
1. The campaign is real but there is someone else creating bot accounts on the fediverse either in a misguided attempt to help or to discredit it as a scam.
2. The campaign is real and you are using bot accounts and creating lots of different accounts to promote it.
3. The campaign is fake.
In case of #2 and #3, we cannot add you to gaza-verified.org.
#3 is obvious. #2 I will document today on the site. People who create multiple accounts on multiple servers and use automated posts to spam hundreds of people will not be verified. This behaviour is scam-like and reduces trust and makes it difficult for Palestinians who are here interacting personally to get help.
If it’s #1, I am willing to try and help you but you must understand that a lot of trust has been lost already because of the behaviour of these accounts and we will be very skeptical in how we proceed and there will have to be lots of reputational damage that will take time to fix *if* (a) my friends in Gaza and I can verify that you are who you say you are (b) these other accounts are closed and only one account on one server remains and (c) if it does not engage in bot-like behaviour by spamming hundreds of people with automatically-generated posts.
My first and only priority here is to protect my friends in Gaza who are on Gaza Verified and others from Gaza on Mastodon and the fediverse who are being negativity impacted by the current behaviour of the accounts that link to your fundraiser.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •You need to understand me.
I am a computer engineer from Gaza.
I created an automated posting program, and Mastodon allows these permissions; it is not a bot in terms of posting rules.
This was the only method that worked for me to raise donations.
Secondly, I tried to create an official account on the main server, but it is still suspended.
I also created an account on mas.to, but unfortunately, it was blocked in less than an hour.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Lastly, I am ready to comply with your rules and give up the automated posting program,
but I need to get in touch with one of you.
This is my WhatsApp number: +972599339297
Aral Balkan
in reply to Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉 • • •@rififi54 OK, I understand and I am, of course, willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is that the behaviour of creating multiple accounts and sending automated messages is *exactly* the behaviour that scammers have been using in the past here. And a lot of trust has been lost because of it and it impacts every person from Gaza who has a Mastodon account and is trying to survive by using it. Including my friends on gaza-verified.org who I will do anything to protect.
Please get a Signal account and add me using my handle: aral.42
We can set up a time next week there when Joy and I can talk to you.
But, as I said, a lot of reputational damage has already happened so we will have to work hard to fix that as I do not want it negatively impacting Joy or the others.
I hope we can fix this and I hope that you and your family are safe.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@aral @rififi54
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This is my Signal account.
I will wait for your call.
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in reply to Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉 • • •thom
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@aral I’m not saying you’re wrong in these specific instances, but please consider the stress and terror and despair these people have been experiencing for almost 2 years. It can lead to frantic, spammy, disruptive and angry and impatient behaviour.
I know for example that @mohshbair’s account was repeatedly suspended from Bluesky because of that. He’s learned how to behave the hard way.
Aral Balkan
in reply to thom • • •Of course.
The goal is to ensure that we protect everyone from Gaza who needs Mastodon and the fediverse as a lifeline. That means maintaining trust.
There are people out there (clearly devoid of all humanity) who are – as we speak – trying (with malicious intent) to perpetuate the lie that all accounts from Gaza are scams and that they should all be shut down. This ties into Israel’s lies that there is no famine or genocide in Gaza. (Hasbara, if you will.)
thom
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