“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism

Ghostalmedia , 5 hours ago

If you’re interested in supporting Vance, Ashley Furniture gift cards are preferred.

humancrayon , 5 hours ago

I believe the couches have a collective restraining order against him.

Ghostalmedia , 4 hours ago

What’s about donating bear cub corpses to Kennedy?

poVoq , 4 hours ago

I mean… everyone is free to spend their money on what they want pretty much, but the marginal benefit of these 500k on the Harris campaign is very low, while the same money would go a long way supporting Fediverse development and maintenance.

deadsuperhero OP , 3 hours ago

Regardless of how you feel about it, it’s still notable that people on the Fediverse managed to scrape $500k together. This is the first time something like that has ever happened on this network. In the world of big politics and presidential campaigns, it’s not much. However, within the scope of grassroots organizing, it’s substantial.

I agree that I would love to see that funding go towards mutual aid, infra and project funding, and supporting people who work on different parts of the network.

MrTomS , 2 hours ago

The goal is not only to support the Harris campaign but also to raise the visibility of Mastodon including possibly an official Harris for President presence there. I believe the fundraiser has already convinced ACTBlue to include a share on Mastodon link.

Nakoichi , 4 hours ago

Lmao losers donated a drop in the bucket of the DNC warchest for a fascist cop.

communism , 2 hours ago

“political organizing”

Beetle_O_Rourke , 2 hours ago

glasses-off Political Organizing

glasses-on Giving money to genocidal millionaires

Voltage , 2 hours ago

I’m not American, What’s with the coconut?

knightly , 2 hours ago

It’s a reference to an anecdote that Harris apparently uses frequently.

That’s all I know, never cared enough to learn a politicians’ lore.

Mishmash2000 , 1 hour ago

It was a blend of a bit of quirky humor followed by a more profound message that Kamala Harris attributes to her mother: “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

ssm , 1 hour ago (edited 1 hour ago)

I feel like I’m gonna 🤮

CyberSyndicalist , 1 hour ago

The rhetoric of this fundraising was that it would encourage the Harris campaign to have an official presence on mastodon which would legitimize and spread awareness of the fediverse. This has not happened and as far as I can tell the Harris campaign has not even acknowledged that mastodon exists let alone make an account or instance.

This reminds me of an event on reddit which paralleled the pathetic “If I give enough money maybe senpai will notice me” vibes. Back in 2013 some starcraft players got the idea that if they organized to buy enough pizzas from PapaJohn’s then it would convince the company to sponsor starcraft tournaments and push esports into the mainstream (esports were niche at this time and starcraft was the major esport).

Here’s a celebrating raising thousands of dollars for a company that materially opposed medicare for all (wasn’t kidding about the democrat parallels). What did they get out of this? a vague tweet about esports that didn’t even acknowledge the campaign. PapaJohns would go on to sponsor an esports tournament… in 2022 well after esports had become mainstream on it’s own and sponsorships like this were tailist rather than pioneering. For extra injury that PapaJohns tournament was for smashbros with the starcraft community that organized this cringe campaign by then long dead and buried.