nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqhqmcmxquced0hxvaged4p372v6n0r9mxjydw82rz6f3593zy53zqcsrh2x (nprofile…rh2x) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqg48cy9nkrm0pkeuz7e9zrzeq2n6lnlwyn30u9zd0xe07g9qvrasnwvlvm (nprofile…vlvm) this is a problem I’ve also raised before.
And, to be honest, I don’t see a viable solution for it.
Many accounts write on social media regularly (and even tag donors) in order to get more attention on their personal campaigns. This may be more stressful on donors (who get tagged regularly during the day and have to spread their donations among multiple accounts), but it works better for some verified accounts (who can usually raise more money by simply asking for more help).
The alternative approach is the Emergency Appeal format, where all the money gets collected towards a single fund with a single objective (evacuate as many people as possible from the north). This is probably less cumbersome for donors (who can direct all their efforts towards a single bucket), but I’ve heard some accounts lament that it impacted their individual campaigns, because most of the efforts were going towards the emergency initiative, ending up with others receiving less money. And just because someone is not in the north anymore it doesn’t mean that they’re comfortable - most of them still live in tents, if they’re lucky, and have one meal per day.
So it’s extremely hard to make a ranking of misery, like you call it. But unfortunately we’re in a situation where someone has to do it given the limited resources on both sides.
A more centralized approach, where all funds get collected in one place and dispatched to individual accounts based on their individual needs or level of danger, lifts some burden off the donors, but it puts more stress on the Gaza Verified operational staff (only Aral and Joy as of now) and it just shifts the problem of ranking the misery to them.
The current decentralized approach puts more stress on donors, who often (at least in my case) spread the efforts among 10 different families per day to maximize fairness, but it lifts burden from the Verified team (whose tasks can then be limited to onboarding and coordinating emergency communication) and it encourages individual accounts to share their stories in order to get more attention - but that creates competition for donations too.
The only way to improve things is to scale up, either the verification team (more people would mean more operational capacity to properly collect and dispatch donations like a proper non-profit), or the donors base (which for now unfortunately is limited to a couple of dozens of regular donors on the Fediverse). If that doesn’t happen then people will necessarily have to compete for limited resources - and that means that somebody must do a very uncomfortable exercise of ranking the misery, or spread their efforts thin across all the accounts in order to maximize fairness…
Fabio Manganiello
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2025-10-02 19:36:39 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…25ps
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