Is there some kind of mutual aid matchmaking platform, preferably decentralized in some way?
Commercially run platforms do not qualify, nor do "you can technically do mutual aid here" platforms, I'm really looking for something with an ideological basis in mutual aid that actively encourages it.
Note that "mutual aid" here is not a euphemism for just "people asking for / offering money", I mean mutual aid in the broader sense, including doing stuff for people that they need
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@joepie91 freecycle was something a little bit like this, at one point, albeit with a different ideoloy. but that energy mostly moved to facebook buy nothing groups, unfortunately.
fundamental problem here is that making mutual aid work requires local community building, which has generally been easier/more prevalent on corporate platforms (where vc money paid to get a bunch of people onboarded already). not sure how to fix that.
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@alive That's more or less the conclusion I'd come to, yeah. I have some ideas about how this problem could be approached, but I wanted to check first whether someone else had already done it, before accumulating Yet Another Project...
