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healthcare bureaucrat in philly, v adhd, orthodox jew, ect ect, im love my wife



caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

It's become routine to see survival fundraisers here, as there are on other social media; and, like other social media, people bumping them because donations have plateaued.

Unfortunately, Cohost is deliberately designed to inhibit things from spreading. (The "we went viral on Twitter once and didn't like it" design decision.) Donations have plateaued because everybody who's going to see it, has. You cannot do anything to make it go further. And of those, all the people who can and will donate, have.

The limit of what your immediate Cohost audience can and will spend to keep you alive is just that low.


numberonebug
@numberonebug

"distributed philanthropy is not a solution" is so apt. It just isn't tenable


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in reply to @caffeinatedOtter's post:

Yeah.

I'm not terribly happy with the digital philanthropy trend in the first place. Cohost is also a site where there's a lot of need, sometimes from very enfranchised people in the community.

Realistically, its not a terrible place to fundraise a finite sum from friends if you have a ton of friends here. Otherwise, the competition seems stiff, the virality limited, and the pool of eyes small.

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