Saabe Dream by Mishiikenh Kwe
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TURTLE ISLAND SOCIAL?

TurtleIsland.social is a Mastodon instance originally established in December of 2022. Mvskoke Nation citizens own, administer, and moderate this instance.

WHY?

TurtleIsland.social is an ad-free, corporate-free, bigotry-free, and culture respectful environment for North American Native/Indigenous people to be in community and safe spaces.

• Ultimately, we are helping to build an Indigenized social network.
• We stand with our people. We know and support their struggles.
• We moderate to Indigenous standards not colonial standards.

WHO?

TurtleIsland.social accepts user registrations from North American Native/Indigenous people through the ‘Create Account’ portal or by admin/moderator invites. Non-Indigenous relatives and allies can join by admin/moderator invites only.

• New accounts are usually activated from 6am-midnight CST.

HOW MUCH?

TurtleIsland.social is 100% free. We will never charge fees or pressure anyone for donations. All expenses are paid for by the administrators and donations.

If you’d like to help with TurtleIsland.social instance expenses:

• https://ko-fi.com/TurtleIsland
• https://cash.app/$Yehuda1491
• https://venmo.com/Yehuda1491

If you make Pension/Social Security/Disability or less please don’t. But if you can help a Native/Indigenous Mastodon instance thrive and grow, it would be much appreciated.

WHAT?

TurtleIsland.social is a small/medium sized instance due to our specialized nature.

• TurtleIsland.social will never be a large general purpose instance and will be Indigenized as much as possible.
• We are federated with 99% of the Fediverse but use no relays in order to maximize content relevant to our users.

TurtleIsland.social believes 100% in true Native/Indigenous Nation sovereignty, physical and digital LandBack. We reject calls to assimilate into the generally white culture Fediverse. The whole ghettoization theory is white supremacy garbage.

#Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #LandBack #InstanceBack #IndigenousCreatives #IndigenousMutualAid #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt

BLOCKED INSTANCES

We use the Oliphant Tier 0 blocklist, which blocks the majority of the bad actors without getting crazy aggressive. We are adamantly opposed to blocking BIPOC, marginalized, or leftist instances. If you see anything blocked or not blocked that you believe is in error, let us know.

COMMITMENT

A small instance has many advantages in performance and administrator/moderator access. We are committed to 3 months notice in the extremely unlikely event we should decide to pull the plug.

• TurtleIsland.social goes offline for an hour roughly on Wednesdays at 5am CST for cold backups. There may also be other unscheduled maintenance or upgrade events. We have over 99% uptime availability.

RULES

1. TurtleIsland.social accepts registrations from North American Native/Indigenous people through the ‘Create Account’ portal or by invitation. Non-Indigenous relatives and allies can join by invitation only.
2. This is a Indigenous instance.

• Any anti-Indigenous activity from a TurtleIsland.social account at the sole determination of the TurtleIsland.social administrators or moderators will be grounds for account termination.
• Any anti-Indigenous activity from an external instance at the sole determination of the TurtleIsland.social administrators or moderators will be grounds for user blocking, report filing, and/or domain blocking/de-federation.

1. We can’t stress this enough – Absolutely no racism, anti-semitism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. 95% of our issues fall in this category.

• Any infraction of this category from a TurtleIsland.social account at the sole determination of the TurtleIsland.social administrators or moderators will be grounds for account termination.
• Any infraction of this category from an external instance at the sole determination of the TurtleIsland.social administrators or moderators will be grounds for user blocking, report filing, and/or domain blocking/de-federation.

1. Advertising authentic Indigenous products and genuine Indigenous businesses is allowed and encouraged.

• Advertising fake inspired appropriated products by non-Indigenous businesses is not allowed.

1. We support and encourage Mutual Aid with the #IndigenousMutualAid, #SettlerSaturday, and #MutualAid hashtags.
2. No Native/Indigenous gatekeeping of accounts on Native/Indigenous instances.

• If you have an issue with the Indigeneity of an account on an Indigenous instance, DM or email the admins and/or moderators of the instance.
• Regardless of the opinions and seriousness of this subject or what instance a user of questionable Indigeneity may be on, immature and abusive posts, dogpiling, parody or sock puppet accounts, etc. are part of a vibe we do not want coming here from Twitter and are expressly not allowed.
• None of this is to say the Pretendian subject is forbidden, but keep it mature.

1. Promotion of Right-Wing, Conservative, Republican, Fascist, Nazi or other equally stupid political views is not allowed.

• If extreme idiocy is your inclination, go somewhere else.

1. Any other issues not covered by these rules will be settled by the sole determination of the TurtleIsland.social administrators or moderators.
2. New accounts are usually activated from 6am-midnight CST.
3. Thanks!
   -Yehuda