It started with me wanting to support Lemmy, my Lemmy instance and Voyager. Then I checked what other open source apps I had installed from F-Droid. It would exceed my budget to donate to them all, so I chose the 10 apps that I most frequently use.

This is just my personal list, but I thought it's a nice idea to share it and maybe others will do the same and donate to their most used open source apps and projects.

  • Evans@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    I do this too! $5/month to Fedilab, Wikipedia, OrganicMaps, AntennaPod, Signal, among others. Gotta support open source!

  • pedroapero@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    I am doing 5-10$ rounds of donations (4-10 projects each generally) to my favourite projects too on a regular basis. I favor XMR transactions as is it largely accepted those days and fees are appropriate for such low amounts.

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id
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    17 days ago

    Oh dude I love it! I recently donated to Thunderbird. My first Open Source donation (apart from Wikipedia). Feels good. I generally contribute through testing, but once I start earning a good amount, I'm gonna do what you did...

  • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com
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    17 days ago

    I donate to a few things (eff, fsf, Mozilla, kvaesitso, my Lemmy instance, tasks.org) but want to donate to more (guix, keepassdx, syncthing, eternity, maybe some others).

  • krash@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    I didn't know about öffi, thought it would only cover Germany but it supports much more countries. Thanks for the tip!

  • Quintus@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    Wouldn't it be a better idea to donate a big amount of money to a single project rather than small amounts to many projects?

    Don't get me wrong, I do support donating to projects but 5 bucks are nothing. Might as well not donate. Donating 50 dollars to one project is much better.

    • lemonuri@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      I recently heard the idea to donate monthly to one project of your choosing so the developers could rely on a steady income. I think that's a great way of doing it.

      • Quintus@lemmy.ml
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        17 days ago

        That's an even better idea! A steady income is much better than donations that may or may not arrive. Thanks for the idea, appreciate it!

    • pineapple@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      This is how some of my friends think about climate change action. Whats the point of doing anything at all if anything you do isn't going to make an impact? It's all about everyone helping some amount, it ads up!

    • stationary_melon@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      You do you, but it's better if everyone donates a bit of money to a lot of projects than donating a ton of money to a single project. It's not like a single individual with a normal salary could fund a project alone anyways.

      Let's suppose that 10 people have 10 dollars to give each, and there are 4 projects which they all use: Project A is the most important for 7 people, so they recieve $70. Then comes project B with $20 and C with $10. Project D gets no donations.

      But if we ponderate them by average importance it would be: A=0.5, B=0.3, C=0.15 and D=0.05. If they had split their donations, the allocation of funding would have been way more efficient.