Gaza has slipped from the news.

I’m making considerations on how to design a simple initiative to keep Gaza in the news on Mastodon. By that, I mean the people from Gaza, not the news-media reports. What we need is to elevated and promote the Mastodon accounts of people who are from Gaza and are asking for donations.

If you have any ideas, reply to this post on Mastodon.

It all comes down to simple advertising.

I am not sure exactly how to do this yet but, I am feeling inclined to make use of the automated system that this website was previously using to advertise. Why not right? The advertisements themselves will feature things like: nature, plants, flowers, wildlife. So, it should be very simple, and then there should be a textual banner promoting Gaza. And then the page in the link could be just as simple as this one, saying just a few words and then having links back to the various profiles for people from Gaza.

Previously, I had it set up to post on four-hour intervals and in 44 languages.

Promotional only.

This would be a promotional initiative only, and there would be no facilitation of donations, and no transactions through the website. That’s not possible, I don’t know how to do that. Furthermore, it’s better to just expect that the means for donation are handled already on an individual basis. So, there would be no financial aspect tied together with the promotion, any donations made would simply use whatever methods are in place, and would be determined by the individual people involved.

The pages could contain lists of people asking for donations on Mastodon.

Maintaining lists for prospective donations to Gaza might be something this website could have. In that case, there would then need to be a disclaimer saying something like “If you require verification, you will need to do that on your own” but, it should also have messaging that will council potential donors that for small amounts, they should not be too strict. Requiring verification might present a major barrier, when the recipient might not be capable of any sort of verification. A simple statement that you are in Gaza should be sufficient.

Ideas, and input is welcome.

Please answer back to this posting on Mastodon if you have any good ideas about how this could be arranged. You can see that it is a very minimal-effort promotion-only type of thing. So, there would not be any dealing with money or financial things through the website. Thanks for reading this far, do your part and try to promote people from Gaza so that they can get donations. Everyone knows the situation, so I will keep the imagery positive, even though the situation is extreme dire.