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Derek Martin

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Hi friends and those watching the we've been hosting for years. We've now been down for about four days and still can't get the damn thing back up. Not sure how to fix. We'll cancel all recurring subscription donations and invite everyone back as soon as we can find a solution. Apologies for the downtime.

This fucking sucks - he should be forced to pardon himself and admit guilt journa.host/users/w7voa/status

Fellow orgs and . We're proud to host verifiedjournalist.org as a free resource for locating authenticated journalists and news orgs on the but the cost just went up as we’re needing to register in multiple countries. Is it worth it to keep this service going to you? Total cost will be close to $1,000/year for all the keywords and domains. We do take donations, but to date, it doesn't cover even the hosting costs.

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Happy Friday friends. We recently upgraded our free service that helps and orgs around the world verify their presence on and the ! Check out verifiedjournalist.org to connect with verified journalists.

To support our mission to provide this service, please consider a monthly tip of $1 or $5 (links available on the site).

Can we get a ?

@Gargron It’s “brave”

Notice of Intent to Retire ourselves.space Ecosystem

Please note that on or before July 1, 2024, the ourselves.space ecosystem will no longer be available on the fediverse. This includes:

1. write.ourselves.space
2. books.ourselves.space
3. videos.ourselves.space
4. pics.ourselves.space
5. ourselves.space
6. ourselves.space multi-domain support

This does NOT impact other fediverse related services that The Doodle Project operates including the activitypub relay mastodon-relay.thedoodleprojec) or VerifiedJournalist.org verifiedjournalist.org).

All users are advised to migrate their content as soon as possible to avoid disruption.

Hey friends! Make sure you get verified using our free service at verifiedjournalist.org. Takes just a few minutes and comes with great perks like weekly traffic stats for your account and great visibility with the largest open repository of news on the ! Give us a boost!

@[email protected] Okay, I’ve verified you! You should get a DM from me (the bot) in a bit to update your profile so you can drop the link in for the verification label. Let me know!

@[email protected] My guess is that your OAuth credential on your instance is still valid which makes sense. Assuming you didn’t get an error when you clicked log in to my mastodon server and it took you to the page to fill out that form, go ahead and hit submit!

@[email protected] Ahhh - interesting, okay, that one is gone now too

@[email protected] Okay, log out of your session with verifiedjournalist.org and close/reopen your browser. Then, go in a start again with Login, enter your mastodon server URL, authorize it, and it “should” let you claim your profile. Send me screenshot before you hit save and I’ll make sure nothing wonky happening on our side? (You appear to have found a previously unknown bug!)

@[email protected] Oh! Looks like we didn’t get things quite cleaned up like I thought. Is this your current/new one or old one:

@[email protected] :( I am so sorry! Looking into this now. One moment please.

@[email protected] Okay, I’m going to delete your existing account and let’s have you recreate just to be sure everything is working clean. Should be gone in about 90 seconds.

@[email protected] @jeff Greetings! I did mark your account as verified, but I am wondering if the move you performed isn’t being liked within the system. Wanna try this? Go ahead and recreate your account with the new information and we’ll remove the old one.

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Apple’s biggest open source projects, Swift and WebKit, continue to regularly post on Twitter, and have no active presence on Mastodon.

@w7voa Cruel and unusual punishment…for being female :(

Back and rolling!

Good afternoon ! Doing some maintenance on verifiedjournalist.org. Outage expected for ~30 minutes!

Friends of and everywhere - did you know that verifiedjournalist.org is a free service providing verification for journalists and news orgs for the ? Check it out, register, and spread the word. Thousands have already joined making it the most trusted source of authentication of in the community. We're supported by tips if interested: subscriptions.thedoodleproject

Coming in early 2024 - The Doodle Project is proud to announce our newest offering - Auctions! We're taking interest responses from non-profits, PTAs, booster clubs, churches, and clubs to bring down the expense of your charitable auctions. Simple flat rate pricing, cost only credit card fees, more money in your charity's pocket.

Visit thedoodleproject.com/auctions/ to learn more and register your interest and follow us to stay in the loop.

Delighted to announce that inbound migrations are now supported for custom domains AND the ourselves.space community. Come, be yourself at ourselves.space, and bring your own domain if you like. thedoodleproject.com/singleuse for more!

…aaaaand we’re back!