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Derek Martin

@derek@thedoodleproject.com
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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 ?

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!

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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.

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!

Attention types! ourselves.space and all related internal services will be going offline for a few minutes for an upgrade! compat services impacted. services unaffected.

Today, for the first time in several months, we had to upgrade the infrastructure at ourselves.space! (that's a good thing!) We're continuing to see small but steady growth across all of the platform ecosystems. Our endpoints include , , (compatible), , and . We're small, moderated, and you can bring your own domain (to the mastodon endpoint) for a small monthly fee. Check us out at ourselves.space for more!

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Been hearing whispers all weekend, some from people who I'd *definitely* listen to, of a remote execution 0day in the Signal desktop and possibly also mobile app. Mitigation is supposedly to disable link previews (under settings->chats).

I have no more details. What I've heard doesn't completely make sense, but disabling link previews should be at worst harmless and seems prudent until this is clarified.

Whoopsie! verifiedjournalist.org is having a moment. Please stand by.

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✨ Explore fediDB.org software versions, sort software servers by domain, mau, user and status counts

Now available!

fedidb.org/software/mastodon/v

fedidb.org/software/pixelfed?v

Today is a GREAT day to not have to run your own server. You can bring your own domain to our multi-domain supported ecosystem. Come, be yourself at ourselves.space! Powered by The Doodle Project www.thedoodleproject.com/singl and the outstanding OSS @takahe@jointakahe.takahe.social.

Earlier today, our registrar had a bit of an issue (still trying to figure out what). That took down the entire ourselves.space ecosystem. We’re working on increasing redundancy where we can. This happened at the registrar level, so, improvement here may take a bit.

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If you are a Chrome user, you've probably been been opted-in to Google's enhanced tracking system without any warning.

Chrome's newest update pretends to provide users "Enhanced ad privacy", but actually enrolls Chrome users into a new trackings system.

To disable Google's "advanced" ad tracking, go to Settings>Privacy and Security>Ad Privacy and disable all three options there (Ad Topics, Site-suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement).

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Network alert - ourselves.space services getting a teeny patch right now. You may see a hiccup!

A bit strange - we just had an outage on our main proxy server. Back up, but unacceptable. Going to do some research to see what was cooking. Apologies for the inconvenience. Total outage was ~11 minutes.

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update: We've been whitelisted on thedoodleproject relay and joining 400+ other instances in federation.

mastodon-relay.thedoodleprojec

Tooting along in the is just so much better than the other place. My mental health has been materially better since I disconnected from that place in November. If you're still on the fence, join us over here on ourselves.space, it's a great place to be!

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i knew it wasn't a good idea...

I'll take "this is why we don't allow our kids to have phones in their rooms" for $100 Alex. www.bark.us/blog/ask-titania-o

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If you want your local media outlets to open fedi accounts, maybe post links to their stories, so the people monitoring site stats see incoming traffic from here.

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