Three Turtle Island instances for Native/Indigenous

By Indigenous, Native, TurtleIsland.buzz, TurtleIsland.rocks, TurtleIsland.social

Mastodon, Akkoma, and Pixelfed instances

TurtleIsland.* instances are for North American Native/Indigenous only.

  • TurtleIsland.social is a (Twitter-like) Mastodon instance originally established Dec 2022. User registrations are available through the ‘Create Account’ portal at https://TurtleIsland.social/about.
  • TurtleIsland.rocks is a (Twitter-like) Akkoma instance originally established Dec 2023. User registrations are available through the ‘Registration’ portal at https://TurtleIsland.rocks/registration.
  • TurtleIsland.buzz is a (Instagram-like) Pixelfed instance originally established March 2024. User registrations are available through the ‘Sign up’ portal at https://TurtleIsland.buzz.

TurtleIsland.* and Allies.* instances are ad-free, corporate-free, bigotry-free, and culture respectful environments for North American Native/Indigenous people and their allies to be in community and safe spaces. Join one, two, three or all four today!

#DigitalLandBack #InstanceBack #LandBack

Thanks!
-Yehuda

Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Yehuda
Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Tzipporah
Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Hvresse

Four Turtle Island instances for Allies

By Allies, Allies.buzz, Allies.rocks, Allies.social, Allies.video, Decolonization

Mastodon, Akkoma, PeerTube and Pixelfed instances

Allies.* instances are for allies of BIPOC/marginalized people only.

  • Allies.social is a (Twitter-like) Mastodon instance originally established Oct 2023. User registrations are available through the ‘Create account’ portal at https://Allies.social/about.
  • Allies.rocks is a (Twitter-like) Akkoma instance originally established Dec 2023. User registrations are available through the ‘Register’ portal at https://Allies.rocks/registration.
  • Allies.video is a (YouTube-like) PeerTube instance originally established Jan 2024. User registrations are available through the ‘Request an account’ portal at https://Allies.video.
  • Allies.buzz is a (Instagram-like) Pixelfed instance originally established March 2024. User registrations are available through the ‘Sign up’ portal at https://Allies.buzz.

TurtleIsland.* and Allies.* instances are ad-free, corporate-free, bigotry-free, and culture respectful environments for North American Native/Indigenous people and their allies to be in community and safe spaces. Join one, two, three or all four today!

#DigitalLandBack #InstanceBack #LandBack

Thanks!
-Yehuda

Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Yehuda
Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Tzipporah
Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Hvresse

Turtle Island Moderators Need Laptops

By Authors, Beadwork, GoFundMe, Indigenous, Indigenous Creatives, Indigenous Mutual Aid, Mvskoke, Native, TurtleIsland.buzz, TurtleIsland.social, TurtleIsland.video

Please donate to or share this GoFundMe if you can

https://www.gofundme.com/f/turtle-island-moderators-need-laptops

Hesci! (Hello)

Michelle and Tzipporah, moderators for Turtle Island, a group of Indigenous social media servers need Apple laptops. Michelle doesn’t have a laptop, just a phone and Tzipporah’s laptop is over 7 years old, underpowered for creative work and on its last legs.

Both Michelle and Tzipporah are citizens of the Mvskoke Nation and live on modest artists incomes. They cannot buy graphics and video editing level laptops without our help, so we are crowdfunding to help them.

They need these laptops to support themselves/family with their creativity, and moderate Turtle Island as unpaid volunteers. Please help if you can.

Mvto! (Thank-you)
-Yehuda, Michelle & Tzipporah

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TurtleIsland.social has a new home!

By Backups, TurtleIsland.social, Upgrades

Saabe Dream by Mishiikenh Kwe
Used with permission ©Mishiikenh Kwe https://www.instagram.com/mishiikenhkwe

TurtleIsland.social has moved to managed hosting

Sunday, September 10, 2023 – TurtleIsland.social moved to professional Mastodon instance hosting, including a complete migration of all the users and content too. So now we can scale to thousands and thousands of users, handle unlimited celebrities or other high impact users. And no more install/upgrade/backup headaches/anxieties for me. I can totally concentrate on the community now.

This will also increase our uptime. No more hour long Wednesday snapshots. All configuration files, media and database storage are backed up daily to a remote secure object storage. In the extremely unlikely event of a system corruption, Turtle Island can be restored fresh in about an hour tops.

Ditto with system upgrades, due to the more surgical nature of the backups, upgrades will be a few minutes at worst. More than likely most upgrades will be a mere blip and not even noticeable.

Thanks!
-Yehuda

Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Yehuda
Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Tzipporah
Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Hvresse

Welcome to TurtleIsland.blog

By Mastodon, Pixelfed, TurtleIsland.blog, TurtleIsland.buzz, TurtleIsland.social, WordPress

Saabe Dream by Mishiikenh Kwe
Used with permission ©Mishiikenh Kwe https://www.instagram.com/mishiikenhkwe

Welcome to TurtleIsland.blog!

Welcome to this brand new NGINX web server. It has been running great so far, much much better than Apache. Still working on optimum configurations though. The content from IndigenousCreatives.social has been moved here, and much new content is planned.

Consider this site your go to place for TurtleIsland.social and TurtleIsland.art information, Native-Indigenous education and news.

#ChangeTheName #AntiIndigenous #Apache

So glad to be getting rid of racist jerks Apache Software Foundation products. Appropriation of Native people and names for products is not cool. I’m glad I have a better option. Sorry, I took this long to completely ditch Apache software.

I have used Apache since sometime in the 2nd half of the 1990’s. I had to compile it myself for whatever version of Unix at that time. Software distribution has come a long way since those days, ha! So here we are – NGINX moving forward.

#LEMP #Ubuntu #NGINX #MySQL #PHP #Webserver #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #LandBack #InstanceBack #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt #TurtleIslandBlog

Thanks!
Yehuda and the Turtle Island Social/Art/Blog Team

P.S. Turtle Island Internet properties do not sell anything or charge fees. Turtle Island Internet properties are volunteer led and donation financed.

Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Yehuda
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Cvkvlv.com Beadwork Grand Opening

By Beadwork, Cvkvlv, Indigenous, Mvskoke, Native

New Native-American beadwork online store now open

Tzipporah Rothschild-Manory, Muscogee Nation citizen, today announced with great excitement that Cvkvlv.com Beadwork is now ready and open for business.

In celebration, their first collection of unique handmade Native-American beadwork is now available for purchase. As of this posting, there are 12 individual sets of earrings in stock and ready to ship!

Be sure to reach out to Tzipporah on @Tzipporah@turtleisland.social (Mastodon), Instagram.com/Cvkvlv, or Cvkvlv.com if you have any questions.

Mvto!
-Yehuda

Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Yehuda
Follow on Mastodon – TurtleIsland.social/@Tzipporah
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