A grassroots fundraising campaign for the 2024 election is trending towards half a million dollars raised by Fediverse members.

The Mastodon For Harris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Millionaires and politicians simping for money on Mastodon, while otherwise people who are actually disabled, homeless or in need struggle to even get their posts begging for contributions seen?

    Wow, didn’t expect that of all thing that would enshittify the Fediverse, it would be a politician going for the left.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That’s not really enshittification, is it?

      I was under the impression that Cory Doctorow’s definition was largely based on how social media platforms entice people with “free” offerings, then gradually tighten the screws over time to make service worse. This usually happens when a platform becomes the dominant player.

  • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I kind of want to join Mastadon to help contribute both to the growth of this campaign and the fediverse in general.

    Anyone know a good equivalent to lemm.ee instance on Mastadon? General purpose, prioritized federating with everyone over heavy handed moderation (like lemmy.ml or lemmy.world)?

  • where_am_i@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Even the fediverse community is now about US elections.

    I’ll tell you what your “fediverse” is all about: USA. And mainly Trump vs Harris.

    It’s like nothing else exist. fediverse my @$$.

    • tuoret@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve blocked every US-specific community I’ve seen on the everything feed but it keeps spilling into seemingly unrelated communities too. And it’s only going to get worse.

    • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think this is a very real observation, with not much that can be done.

      The best non-USA people can do is to participate and share/produce content which is not US-centric (ideally in their native language too). Unfortunately many communities, even non political ones, often still default to a US-centric perspective and culture, which makes it hard for people to participate.

      It’s hard to dance around it, more people are needed.

    • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      a lot of instances are really just Redditors who refuse to use reddit. this is especially apparent with the USA defaultism. the best thing you can do is curate the feed with blocked communities and only stay in subscribed, but as we can see here it even bleeds into totally unrelated shit sometimes, so.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      ikr, why do people care? it’s not like us politics affects anyone outside the us. this is one country that notoriously doesn’t meddle in any other country’s matters one bit, and has no armed forces or even political influence outside its own borders.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The US is one of the largest english speaking communities worldwide so its maybe not too wild to expect this from english subcommunities. There is a significant amount of japanese mastodon servers and german lemmy servers

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    3 months ago

    First time I donated this cycle. Wanted to support a good candidate and boost the Fediverse profile. At this point just seeing the logo for the site formerly known at Twitter makes me sick.

          • luciferofastora@lemmy.zipEnglish
            01·
            3 months ago

            The difference between a million and a billioj is about one billion. Millionaires aren’t the biggest bloodsuckers by a long shot, so the focus right now is on damage control by opposing the parasites.

    • KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      I mean, I myself was so fucking depressed that it was between the two, so literally anything that the Democrats would put up other than Biden I’m automatically going to be thrilled about. I could think of a few better options, actually quite the handful of better options than Harris, but you bet your sweet ass I’m still going to vote for her and support the ever living fuck out of her cuz fuck Trump.

    • YTG123@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      People are very justifiably terrified of Trump. And Kamala is really something new and fresh