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.
So did Harris’ campaign open a mastadon account (this shouldn’t be all that difficult or costly) following this initiative?
I am not the from the US, just curious. More official government accounts on Mastadon is good thing.
I did recently notice that I could follow some people on Threads on one of my Mastadon account, that’s a good thing too.
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 @$$.
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.
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.
!yurop@lemm.ee is quite active, on top of the languages communities like !dach@feddit.org or !forumlibre@jlai.lu
Welcome to Enshitification
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.
It’s like the domino theory. If the US falls to fascism, so will the rest of the western world!
“Mr. President, we cannot alOow a tankie gap!!!”
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.
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
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I mean, it could be spent on outreach to inform people that Harris is more than just “some woman”, for one.
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We can sit here and argue over what “should” happen all day. The point of funding is to make sure that what should happen, does happen.
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.
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.
Hey, you know what?
Lemmy for Harris. Let’s do that.
I can pitch in a dollar
The comments on here vs the comments on the cross-post really shows the diversity of the fediverse on different instances.
As Lemmy has scaled it’s approaching average. The masses have chosen to demonized minority opinions not for profit, but for short term comfort. They’ll enshitify socially. It’ll be faster than profit max as there’s no delay to begin.
We live in a society
I hear good things about fosstodon.org
I know mastodon.social is the big one.
Probably better to avoid it then
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.
You actually give your hard earned money to a millionaire? I’d rather burn it.
A millionaire being opposed by billionaires? Yeah, I’m fine with that.
“Opposed”
Sure.
I keep forgetting Lemmy is ok with millionaires all of a sudden.
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.
Same!
Harris has had some INSANE levels of support. This is historical.
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.
Maybe the Dems will finally learn that listening to their base helps
People are very justifiably terrified of Trump. And Kamala is really something new and fresh
Good! Maybe I will try this for the Jill Stein campaign then!
