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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

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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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About the Servers

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

Turtle Island has six Fediverse instances and one web server. Mastodon, Akkoma, Pixelfed & WordPress run on six virtual private servers.

  1. The TurtleIsland.social Mastodon server is in Masto.host, which is professionally managed Mastodon hosting at its best. This server is scalable to virtually any number of active users, extremely reliable and the most suitable for celebrity or high demand user accounts.
  2. The Allies.social Mastodon server is in Masto.host, which is professionally managed Mastodon hosting at its best. This server is scalable to virtually any number of active users, extremely reliable and the most suitable for celebrity or high demand user accounts.
  3. The TurtleIsland.rocks Akkoma server is a DigitalOcean dedicated virtual server with 1 Intel vCPU, 2GB RAM and 70GB NVMe SSD. The software is Ubuntu Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and Akkoma.
  4. The Allies.rocks Akkoma server is a DigitalOcean dedicated virtual server with 1 Intel vCPU, 2GB RAM and 70GB NVMe SSD. The software is Ubuntu Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and Akkoma.
  5. The TurtleIsland.buzz and Allies.buzz Pixelfed server is a DigitalOcean dedicated virtual server with 2 Intel vCPU, 4GB RAM and 70GB NVMe SSD, and CDN storage of limitless capacity for the image and video files. The software is Ubuntu Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, and Pixelfed.
  6. TurtleIsland.blog and YehudaRothschild.com are on a DigitalOcean dedicated virtual server with 2 Intel vCPU, 2GB RAM and 90GB NVMe SSD. The software is Ubuntu Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress.

All remote server access and design work is done with an Apple Mac Studio and an Apple MacBook Pro. Image and graphics editing are done with GIMP and Inkscape.

All the above software is open source. All WordPress plugins used are free versions.

Thanks!
-Yehuda

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About TurtleIsland.blog

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

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

About TurtleIsland.blog

TurtleIsland.blog is the go to information source for all Turtle Island Internet properties, including #IndigenousCreatives

Thanks!
-Yehuda

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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.

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Meet the Turtle Island Team

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

Meet the Turtle Island Team

Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe

Moderator – Content
Mvskoke Nation citizen

Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe is an author of poetry and prose from Sacramento, CA. With an affinity for astronomy and physics, she often makes correlations between the corporeal and the cosmos. She is the author of the book Disremembering, a volume of poetry about love and loss available on Amazon or direct from her at nihtgengapress.com

To tip Michelle:
https://ko-fi.com/aph3lion
https://cash.app/$Aphelia

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Tzipporah Rothschild-Manory

Moderator – Admin – Graphics – Photos
Mvskoke Nation citizen

Tzipporah Rothschild-Manory is a poet, artist, photographer, and beader. Their art is influenced by traditional Mvskoke designs, but contemporary.

Their beadwork e-commerce site is at Cvkvlv.com.

To tip Tzipporah and help them get beading supplies:
https://ko-fi.com/tzipr
https://cash.app/$tzipr
https://venmo.com/Tzip

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Yehuda Rothschild

Moderator – Admin – Web Developer
Mvskoke Nation citizen

Yehuda Rothschild is retired after over 35 years in Information Technology. Now he is mostly the under the hood server guy for TurtleIsland.* and Allies.* Fediverse instancess, as well as general big mouth. He is working hard to fight racism, and seek land, digital and financial justice for Indigenous people, strengthen reconnecting Natives, and educate allies.

To help pay server expenses or tip (note tip on donation):
https://ko-fi.com/TurtleIsland
https://cash.app/$Yehuda1491
https://venmo.com/Yehuda149

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