The Direct Aid Streaming Project

@thedasp.bsky.social

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Home Account for The Direct Aid Streaming Project - creating a community to help streamers directly support those in need safely Est - November 7th 2024 Support all our beneficiaries at: https://tinyurl.com/DASPVetted

Let me talk about where I am on my Hiatus with the DASP as April 1st, the projected end of it, is coming. As of now: nothing has improved and I'm honestly in a worse place than I started. My personal MA and financial efforts are meeting little to no growth and I am actually down in subscriber money. This on top of the storms/weather of march left me bedbound or on a Nocturnal/Insomniac schedule all month, going into April. That all as preference to whats next. I Do want to return to work, I just don't know when I'll have the spoons cause I'd say I actually have less than I started with in January. I would like to make a point to return to DASP duties with a focus on Streaming and running the streaming side as stated, and would definitely still need a volunteer lead for the beneficiaries side of things. To make the beneficiaries side of things easier, I want to scrap the whole concept of staff screening applicants. We have enough hoops to jump through with regards to onboarding that most scammers wouldn't bother with trying to set things up and get on our list or pallygg. Instead I would like to just fall back to invitations be per member and have new members be vouched for by someone whos already completed onboarding (that is sharing all the info we need to be put on the list and pallygg.) As I write this the thought of a monthly or [insert time frame here] limit on invitations being necessary comes to mind. I could conceivably come back, implement the above, and return to a holding pattern with regards to maintaining and communicating with Streamers and Beneficiaries. But I would not be able to start work on scheduling raid trains until I have volunteers to help with the beneficiaries relations and data-entry side responsibilities. 1/2
Robert (robert.rbnhmr.me) post reading "dawg why aren't you soliciting your representatives, your senators, your president? the folks you're speaking to are just as fucked as you are"
Post from DemitriMorgan.com reading: "Social media is utterly replete with bots and scammers, profiles asking for money are grifting 99% of the time regardless of who they claim to be, and the moderation team can see every user's IP address and other metadata that the rest of us cannot."
a discord screenshot of two messages from Farronox. Message 1: "Donors, please report your donations as follows. Find your donation in your Payments & Orders on Ko-fi, Click "View details" Share the "Share This Moment" link in the appropriate Event thread. Post the link, and the amount of your donation. Mention the offered reward you wish to claim. An Event Staff member will reach out to the donor to verify the amount, and will reach out to you with regards to claiming your reward." Message 2: "Example: [KoFi Sharing URL] I donated $5. I'm not claiming a reward."
A screenshot of the D A S P Discord server. Among a list of channels visible by fully permissioned members are three red circled spots featuring the "event-donations" forum channel and "Off Event Donation Reporting" thread. Viewing the thread, the title and first message reading "Here is we invite Donors to share Screenshots of donations to our Vetted Beneficiaries. We also invite Community Members to offer rewards for these proofs." and second message reading: "Offered Rewards: [How Much][to Who][For What][From] Single $100+ donations to Any Vetted Beneficiary for Your Name on "Waypoint Stations" in Farronox's Col 70 Bridge in Elite Dangerous. Single $30+ donation to Any Vetted Beneficiary for Naming rights to Anchor Outpots in Farronox's Col 70 Chain in Elite Dangerous" are also circled.
Mrmagoo579 replies to a post featuring a go fund me link with: "Hello (hand waving emoji) Are you the owner of this campaign or just promoting on someone's behalf?"
A screenshot showing Harry The Sea Otter posting a screenshot of The DASP's bluesky where we are telling people to block him using his profile link.
Block list by confettimother.bsky.social called "Beggars, Mendicants, Scroungers"
a screenshot of "payitforward005"'s bsky profile. Bio: "Severe ME. I am entirely dependent on crowdfunding for my survival. I deeply appreciate any and all the help you all can give me. Thank you so much for your contributions. Ko-fi Link, Cash App link." only post: "Hello blue sky! I have severe ME & I need help to stay alive. I am about to lose my housing. I need to get new housing ASAP. I need someone who can make a flyer from me. I need people who can share the flyers for me. Lastly, I need donations. Ko-Fi Link"
mail log between Farronox and Kevin of Sprise: Farronox: "To Whom it may concern. I am Farronox, a small streamer, and lead admin of the Direct Aid Streaming Project. Like many streamers I happily signed up for PallyGG seeing that it seemed to be a service for the good of the community. I have since used it as a way to provide a method for people to donate to a group of vetted mutual aid fundraisers as a whole. Much of the streaming community has only just learned that you've acquired PallyGG and are understandably concerned that it is now in the hands of a company emphasizing NFTs. I, like many others, have a vested interest in continuing to use the service, but have a hard stance against supporting companies' continued development of environmentally harmful technologies such as Blockchain and AI. Are you able to give us assurances that PallyGG will stay free aside from voluntary donations? More so, is there any way you can confirm that the voluntary donations will Only support PallyGG? If there is any form of official statement you can make or share that will confirm a yes on one or both of those questions, it might go a long way toward users continuing to use the PallyGG service. Thank you for your time. " Kevin: "Hi Farronox, We at Sprise are no longer associated with Pally.gg. A small team acquired it in late 2023 and have full control over it. Best wishes, Kevin Cofounder, Sprise"
Email log between Farronox and Kevin of Sprise: Farronox: "To Whom it may concern. I am Farronox, a small streamer, and lead admin of the Direct Aid Streaming Project. Like many streamers I happily signed up for PallyGG seeing that it seemed to be a service for the good of the community. I have since used it as a way to provide a method for people to donate to a group of vetted mutual aid fundraisers as a whole. Much of the streaming community has only just learned that you've acquired PallyGG and are understandably concerned that it is now in the hands of a company emphasizing NFTs. I, like many others, have a vested interest in continuing to use the service, but have a hard stance against supporting companies' continued development of environmentally harmful technologies such as Blockchain and AI. Are you able to give us assurances that PallyGG will stay free aside from voluntary donations? More so, is there any way you can confirm that the voluntary donations will Only support PallyGG? If there is any form of official statement you can make or share that will confirm a yes on one or both of those questions, it might go a long way toward users continuing to use the PallyGG service. Thank you for your time. " Kevin: "Hi Farronox, We at Sprise are no longer associated with Pally.gg. A small team acquired it in late 2023 and have full control over it. Best wishes, Kevin Cofounder, Sprise"
Screenshot of a DM log with bluesky user Elyssia12.bsky.social. Elyssia: "Hey how are you doing?" TheDASP: "Hi there. I'll be honest and up front with you that a message like this coming from an account like yours fits the common form of a gfx scammer. We are an unregistered non-profit organization with no budget for gfx so real or not we have no need of your services. If this conversation continues to meet the form used by gfx scammers we will have no use but to block you and inform our community to do the same. Typically artists of any crediblity so not cold dm users to offer their services. We hope you understand that all of the above is said as a precaution to avoid bots and scams. Otherwise: I doing well, how are you?" Elyssia: "I'm not a scammer, I'm one of the hardworking ones. Not every artist is a scammer. It's very wrong to say such things about someone without knowing them.🙃 I'm not forcing you to do anything, you can work with me or not, it's up to you, sir." TheDASP: "Unfortunately that is all within the form I expect from scammers. We're warned our discord community and will proceed to block and warn folks here on bluesky. Pointedly, it is simply best to not cold dm people seeking customers if you want to prevent such a response. I wish you the best of luck adjusting your marketing model."
a bluesky screenshot of several lists by Bonnicula, including the moderation lists: "Harassers and Clowns", "The Pornbot Horde", "Not A Vtuber", "Gross Weirdos", "Egregious Offenders", and "Scammers, Spammers, and Bots Oh My".
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