Post · bonfire.cafe

Rania, if this is you, may I please ask why you created a new account?

Verification becomes meaningless if you have more than one account. (And is therefore against our rules at Gaza Verified.)

If this isn’t you, please let us know right away as it is likely someone who is impersonating you.

CC @rania40

Wouter 🇳🇱🇧🇷🇧🇪

@AccordingtoWouter@mastodon.world · last week

@aral @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 the same gofundme number so I guess it’s her. I was also confused.

Anna Li-On

@AnnaLion@piaille.fr · last week

Hello @aral . We have been spending several days trying to understand why Rania can no longer see her friends on mastodon social, kolektiva social and mastodon world whereas they can see her account. We talked with the administrators, and there is no suspension, her account was not silenced either. @fabio knows about that too and we thought creating another account on a bigger server would be better for Rania so that she can see her friends again.

@raniareziq @Rania @rania40

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al · last week

@AnnaLion @fabio @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 OK, next time would be good to be in the loop as we’ll have to move her verification over.

Already getting folks asking if it’s a scam account impersonating her.

The whole idea behind verification is that there is one account that we can attest is legitimate.

CC @casey

Fabio Manganiello

@fabio@manganiello.eu · last week

@aral @AnnaLion @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 @casey I think I communicated the situation to you at least twice, and Casey was also aware of it.

I also investigated the issue already, together with the admins: it was something I couldn’t wrap my head around. No suspensions, no limitations, perhaps broken federation on her (tiny) instance.

I promised to help her migrate followers to the new account, but of course it makes sense only after her new account is verified.

I’ll do my best to assist her with account migration.

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al · last week

@fabio @AnnaLion @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 @casey Looks like it might have been issues on those servers.

In any case, let’s try to make an account migration the very last option. Not least of all because it’s the most disruptive for the person involved and the people following them.

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Duchesse

@duchesse@mastodon.online · 1 hour ago

@aral @fabio @AnnaLion @raniareziq@mastodon.social @Rania @rania40 @casey hi Aral, I don't know if someone told you yet, Rania's new account on mastodon.social seems to have been banned, before it could even be verified :(

Duchesse

@duchesse@mastodon.online · last week

@aral @AnnaLion @fabio @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 @casey I tagged you in a conversation about the issue so you can have more information. We were lots of people trying to understand the problem with admins and couldn't find a solution:(

Duchesse

@duchesse@mastodon.online · last week

@aral @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 hi Aral, yes it's Rania's account, the change was made because her first account became unusable, cc @fabio

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al · last week

@duchesse @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 @fabio In such cases we prefer to talk to the server admins and try to find out why and get it resolved that way if possible. We can’t have 200+ people switching servers when they feel like it. We just don’t have the resources to keep up with that.

And if multiple accounts exist, verification becomes meaningless.

So please don’t recommend this before talking to us.

CC @casey