From when I was asking about it, I think it’s only the instance admins that can see the details. It would be nice to have this information clearly outlined somewhere, so people know and aren’t surprised.
There’s a potential for abuse with paying for donations (not saying it should never be done):
risk of unsafe blood supplies if people lie about their health history in order to be able to sell their blood
ethical concerns around exploiting financially vulnerable people, and turning a life-saving act into another commercial transaction
In areas where those vulnerable people aren’t protected by the legal system, there’s also the potential of OTHER people “harvesting” and selling the blood
Voluntary and altruistic donations are best, and ideally those values are maintained all the way through the donation process. Hopefully technology continues to improve so that we can support those donations with synthesized alternatives
I believe we’ve had some discussion around this in Canada recently, specifically with donations for plasma. I’m not caught up on it to comment further about it
It’s still helpful to talk about what’s going on elsewhere
see what we can do better
see what good features are worth adopting here
Calling out bad actions by other platforms. We don’t HAVE to help people that aren’t on the Fediverse, but there are a lot of experienced and knowledgeable people on here that can discuss issues and how we can address them