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Will you participate in Secret Santa this year? (givin.gifts)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Ludrol@szmer.info to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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After Reddit enshittified, they shutdown Secret Santa. Some people made a spiritual successor to it. I think Lemmy is a good place to promote it.

I always try to send at least a postcard. I missed it last year, so I really wanted to remember this year to sign up before the deadline.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

No, though not for a lack of trying. I'm not saying this because it's what a downer would say, but we have similar formulated gifting programs where I live, and people have grown wary. It's understandable anything that is close to the donation industry is going to inspire this. The askers even went from asking for super big things like play sets to remarkably small things like a t-shirt as there are always users. It feels like we're going about it wrong. If I see people suffering on the dark side of the economy, I'd rather just personally offer them my roof to stay under. Why institutionally beat around the bush as they say? In the words of Shia LaBeouf, just do it.