Post #3193915

2026-05-01 13:31 UTC

What does everyone think about these features for building mutual aid There’s not enough people to support or administer that type of program, and every attempt I’ve seen on here has either been an obvious grift, or people who clearly don’t have the critical thinking to run something like that and will eventually be grifted Anyone smart enough to do this, is smart enough to see that it would be a waste of time and the best path would be at most communities for existing programs who would handle the actual stuff. If you try to run a program on here,but would be a never ending stream of new accounts asking for 5-20 dollars because in their country that’s a shit ton of money. Those people gain way more out small donations than people in expensive countries,nsp they’ll be more motivated to keep trying.

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@lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus 2026-05-01 15:52

Well, that leads to another possible feature to look into: geographical posts. So potentially creating more local communities for mutual aid rather than just making all transactions digital. So while there would still be these posts from some random guy in india looking for $10 usd (which tbh is not really a huge ask to redistribute money from a wealthy nation to a poorer nation if you can spare it), I would hope that local communities could start supporting each other more directly. This happens on Facebook already thanks for marketplace and groups, but very little exists on this in the fediverse. I agree that there is plenty of room for grifting when it comes to online exchange of goods, and it is probably why it has taken so long to make it to the fediverse, but I think it is important and worth pursuing, despite past failures.

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