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Mutual_Aid discussion post (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello users of hexbear:

Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community [email protected]

We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual's mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.

In addition, we will maintain a strict "No critical comments or meta comments" on a mutual aid post.

This post is to discuss the mutual aid community's rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.

We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.

Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.

Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

The forum structure of /c/mutual_aid means it functions like a charity market. All the issues we have were already addressed by sites like GoFundMe. Either force users to use sites like GoFundMe or start writing their systems into hexbear's codebase.

We can self crit all we want over it but in the end its a software issue.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Gofundme has stuff in the background beyond softwar:, bank accounts, legal stuff. It's not just a fancy front-end. There are also reasons not to use gofundme for concerns of privacy and anonymity. A hexbear gofundme-like is interesting but would likely involve trusted admins, fraud, requirements on legal banking stuff (sanctions - some of which we may not wish to adhere to perhaps, reporting requirements, you know a whole bunch of shit that gofundme pays people to do). Given that we mightve lost the domain it's probably wise to not rely on a handful of trusted users to disburse funds or ensure those funds are being given properly if done so by some algorithm or automated software or whatever.

I can see the motivation of seeing a semi live ticking up number on people's request for money but that's not the end all be all either. Mere trust and cashapp or whatever is probably the best its gonna be to preserve anonymous donors and anonymity for people asking for short term help.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago

I'm not saying completely replicate GoFundMe. Certainly not the actual handling of money. My point is more strictly Lemmy is not built for this.