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.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It makes total sense. If you want to find often wealthy, often progressive people, Mastodon and the even more obscure alternatives are a no-brainer. Even the poorer people on the Fediverse are often left-leaning (by American standards at least) so just giving the place attention will already spread a good chunk of goodwill.

    I suppose Biden is on Threads, but not everyone can interact with that part of the Fediverse because of defederation, so using Mastodon as a jump-off point makes sense.

    I don’t really get the whole American election cycle, I have no idea what all of those collected millions across different platforms can possibly be spent on in a race between “some woman” and “elite rapist convicted for fraud”. Maybe the state of the country is even worse than the news indicates, but it seems to me that you shouldn’t need to collect more than gas money to beat Trump…