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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Hey everyone, I want to welcome @mahmoudoov to Gaza Verified.
@joynewacc and I spoke to him over video in Signal yesterday and we verify that he is who he says he is.
You might already have seen similar accounts to his on different servers and might even have been contacted directly by some of them. You might even have reported them. I might even have reported them. Needless to say, Mahmoud has had a bumpy introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse and I hope we can start again on the right foot now.
Let me explain what happened:
Mahmoud is a computer engineer and he and his three children are trying to survive genocide and famine. Being a programmer, he figured that the easiest way to reach as many people as possible was to code a bot to do it. Of course this started getting flagged as spam and his account was closed. Which is when he tried again on a different server. And, well, you can see where this is going…
Anyway, while this is a fediverse no-no, when someone is screaming for help, there’s only so much you can criticise their diction before it becomes obscene.
So I’ve explained everything to Mahmoud and he’s shut down all the accounts apart from this one – the one we’ve verified – and he won’t be using his bot any more.
Which means that we have to give him a hearty welcome to the fediverse and hopefully boost his posts and his campaign so that we can help him and his three children survive the terrible ordeal they have been facing for over 700 days.
Welcome to Gaza Verified and to the fediverse, Mahmoud, and please give my love to your adorable little ones.
💕