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Mastodon's fundraiser for Kamala Harris needs fediversal support to reach it's 500,000$ goal
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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If the point of the fundraiser is to convince her to join mastodon, wouldn't 450k send just as strong of a message as 500k? Do what you want with your money, but why? Why are we dumping hundreds of grand towards a politician (who's just raised over 300mil in two weeks) on the off chance they will decide to make a mastodon account? The fundraiser even says "encourage her to create a distinct presence on mastodon". The language is so noncommittal it seems like even the people who organized this don't expect anything to happen after they dump a cool half mil into a campaign that's already wildly successful.
Imo if the point of this fundraiser is to promote and grow mastodon/the fediverse then why isn't the money put towards ads, funding instances, developing the fediverse, or a million other things. That amount of money could go a very long way for the fediverse if it were put towards something other than a plea to Kamala Harris to pretty please maybe think about possibly signing up for mastodon