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Mutual aid spam is becoming a problem on the Fediverse.

And to be sure, I'm not against mutual aid. What I am against is spam.

This person has not verified who she is -- or even if the profile picture is hers. Additional research on her name states she is a scammer with a record of grifting. I am therefore skeptical that any donations will help anyone in need.

Folks, please be cautious with mutual aid requests. Yes, people sometimes need help. But people also lie.

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[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How would you differentiate the two?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 9 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Can you just tell me lmao i dont wanna read an essay

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

Mutual aid is a form of [collaborative] political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable.

Charity comes with eligibility requirements that relate to these moral frameworks of deservingness, such as sobriety, piety, curfews, participation in job training or parenting courses, cooperation with the police, or identifying the paternity of children.
Nonprofitization has reproduced antidemocratic, racist, and colonial relationships between the winners and losers of extractive, exploitative economic arrangements.

[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

Mutual aide is mutual

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Well you asked a question with a complicated answer. Dean Spade is a prolific and respected writer and organizer, and his thoughts on the matter are relatively concise compared to the volumes upon volumes written by his predecessors in anarchist thought.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 5 points 20 hours ago

im curious about they differentiate it themselves as a person not how an academic defines it.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The title already gives it away 😜

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 2 points 20 hours ago

it doesnt and its why i asked lol then i opened the link and saw its over 10 paragraphs