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how much do you donate to the apps you use? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by illusionist@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've got some standing orders of 1 or 2 euros every month for bigger projects like grapheneos and kde. And for small apps that I actively use, I try to donate 5 or 10 euros now and then. It's not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run

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[-] plc@feddit.dk 9 points 2 days ago

I pay for BitWarden, not so much because of any feature in their premium offering as that they are critical infrastructure for me and have acted consistently ethically. Also the annual Wikipedia and for a while Mozilla monthly. Way less than what I feel is deserving.

However, I have been working on building a social foss funding site where you set a total recurring donation amount which is then distributed by the Method of Equal Shares accordrding to weights you specify, ether manually or sourced from your os package manager.

Main benefits of that approach is that your budget is fixed, you can spread it over an arbitrary number of recipients, and priority is given to those that are more unique to you.

Would love to hear thoughts if anyone is interested. I hope to maybe test out an alpha version some time in 2026 if time permits.

[-] night_petal@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Sounds cool. I do like the idea of sourcing it from the package manager, because honestly there is an insane amount of packages that go into a modern distro and knowing them all is either impractical or impossible. Something like this would also be nice for charity donations as well. It might exist for that, but if it does I'm unaware of it.