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Well that sucks and I hope the communities around you grow to be bigger so they can help more people. As for me I was able to find mutual aid network that is supported by DSA of america so it seems like its more organized and more robust so I think for now it depends on where you are.

Someone else said in response to my comment in a different post that it is sort of a chicken and the egg problem where people have to join the network first before the network becomes useful and I think that’s what is happening here where people aren’t joining therefore they have a lack of organization for those communities.


P.S. Just randomly looked through mutualaid.wiki and it seems you are right. You might have more luck on mutualaidhub.org or just searching up mutual aid on google.


I mean I sorta thought that most people haven’t heard about them but also it seems like a simple enough answer that the fact that most people haven’t heard of it meant that people haven’t been willing to share the idea meaning that something was wrong with the idea.

So I am asking other people that have heard about them about the problems.


This is my answer in another comment on a different post.

I only heard about them recently too so I might give an incomplete answer but the general gist is that mutual aid is when a group of people band together and share whatever resources and services that they have to offer to other people in that group.

So if someone made an excess of vegetables in their garden they would give that to others in the group with expecting anything immediately in return in the hopes that when their fence breaks down and they request help someone with knowledge on how to fix it would be willing to come help.

As for finding mutual aid groups I’ve seen mutualaid.wiki and mutual aid hub but I’m not sure of what else there is.


Why don't more poor people join mutual aid groups instead of using charities?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2258784 > I've been looking through some US and EU labor data and I have started to wonder why don't more of the working poor join local mutual aid groups instead of staying at their likely shitty jobs or relying on charities? > > [This is a study on the labour distribution in the US among the working poor](https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/working-poor/2020/home.htm) > > On table 4 it shows that there are about 5,812,000 people that are classified as working poor ( Its says number in thousands so I multiplied the number given by 1000) and that alot of those jobs are in essential services like making food or providing support to others. > > [Similar diversity is show in the EU as well](https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/tools/skills-intelligence/unemployment-occupation?year=2021&country=EU#1) > > So if most of these people decided to stop working at their current job and instead bring that those skills to a mutual aid network wouldn't they still get most of the resources they need because other specialists would be there to help them and also [live a generally more happy life](https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/asap.12275)? > > Also the reason why I am saying instead of charities is because charities become less effective the more people request from them because they have limited resources to share and also mainly supported by wealthy people that can unilaterally give and take away support. > > Whilst mutual aid networks can take the diversity that more people joining the network gives them and use it to offer more services to other people in that community. > > This seems like a no brainer so what am I missing?
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Why don't more poor people join mutual aid groups instead of using charities?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2258784 > I've been looking through some US and EU labor data and I have started to wonder why don't more of the working poor join local mutual aid groups instead of staying at their likely shitty jobs or relying on charities? > > [This is a study on the labour distribution in the US among the working poor](https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/working-poor/2020/home.htm) > > On table 4 it shows that there are about 5,812,000 people that are classified as working poor ( Its says number in thousands so I multiplied the number given by 1000) and that alot of those jobs are in essential services like making food or providing support to others. > > [Similar diversity is show in the EU as well](https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/tools/skills-intelligence/unemployment-occupation?year=2021&country=EU#1) > > So if most of these people decided to stop working at their current job and instead bring that those skills to a mutual aid network wouldn't they still get most of the resources they need because other specialists would be there to help them and also [live a generally more happy life](https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/asap.12275)? > > Also the reason why I am saying instead of charities is because charities become less effective the more people request from them because they have limited resources to share and also mainly supported by wealthy people that can unilaterally give and take away support. > > Whilst mutual aid networks can take the diversity that more people joining the network gives them and use it to offer more services to other people in that community. > > This seems like a no brainer so what am I missing?
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I'm looking for people to test an app for community coordination. Where should I start?
I have been working on an app that is supposed to help groups of people coordinate their actions towards a shared goal. I'm done with the basic features (I'm talking barebones here) and I am trying to find a community or two that would be willing to work with me to test and improve it. The reason I'm asking here is two-fold: A) When I looked up ways to find beta testers most are based on finding individuals to test the app which doesn't really work for this because it is based on helping a pre-established community. So I am stuck on how I would find communities without already being an established app. B) Lemmy seems like a very passionate/driven community so I thought there would be people here that are working on stuff or at least know places I could ask for help on this. So what would be the best thing for me to do?
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