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.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    581·
    2 years 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.

    • YTG123@sopuli.xyz
      English
      13·
      2 years ago

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

  • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    2 years 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
    3122·
    2 years 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 @$$.

    • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      211·
      2 years 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
      213·
      2 years 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.

    • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      2 years 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.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      2 years 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

    • tuoret@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      85·
      2 years 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.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.