Evan ProdromouJul 17, 2023

FUND FOR THE BLACK-RUN FEDIVERSE

UPDATE: GoFundMe shut this down. It's a long story.

Please instead donate directly to these great fediverse projects led by and for Black people.

https://www.patreon.com/Wibblur/ is Social Media by the people, for the people

https://www.patreon.com/andcomputers is making blacktwitter.io

https://blackqueer.life/ is a welcoming community for all Black queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-social-media Ro is making a new way to social media

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Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 17, 2023

GoFundMe shut down this fundraising campaign for violating their terms, in particular "Prohibited conduct".

https://www.gofundme.com/c/terms

I don't have any more details from GFM, but my guess is that the description wasn't clear enough, or just didn't vibe with their work.

In the setup for a campaign they say you can raise funds to distribute to others, but I guess this particular case rings alarm bells.

Anyway, please check below for ways to help out!

UPDATE: they don't allow giving grants.

GoFundMe Terms of Service

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Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 17, 2023

Here's what I sent to GFM:

So, can I talk to someone about what happened here?

I’m an Open Source software developer and community leader. I was trying to raise funds to support some of the great Black-led projects in my area of software development (federated social networking).

At sign-up, it said I could find people to give funds to; it didn’t have to be defined at the beginning.

I was surprised to see the fund shut down.

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Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 17, 2023

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Is there something I could change to make this campaign suitable for GoFundMe? Or am I banned from the platform now?

Show threadO! ver 
@evan Do you mention that the money is dedicated mostly to host free services on a web server?
Jul 17, 2023 at 8:43pmWeb
Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 17, 2023
@olireiv you saw the previous post that had the content of my email right?
Show threadO! ver Jul 17, 2023
@evan Yes, but GoFundMe (or the poorly paid Global South moderator) doesn't necessarily know what Mastodon is.