Probably 100% Mozilla.

The free and open web is so in danger right now.

1k to NixOS, (my perfect distro)

500 to NewPipe (dont know what I would do without them)

500 to Bitwarden (for hosting my passwords),

500 to XFCE (for the Wayland transition),

500 to Neovim (my text editor of choice),

500 for Aurora Store (essential for all Custom ROM users, to support them in these difficult times),

500 for the core Lemmy project,

500 for my instance's maintainers,

and last, but definitely not least:

500 for The Everything Project: A project which aims to provide a unified way to access various platforms and services including but not limited to Lemmy and other Fediverse platforms, Reddit, and more. (no, I'm not a contributor or maintainer, but if you want to be, or just want to find out more: https://github.com/everything-gripe )

Godot!

uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don't take donations. So my list would roughly contain:

• Organic Maps
• Thunderbird
• Internet Archive
• Codeberg

I'd like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it's not possible to only support Firefox development.

For example:

Ublock Origin

SponsorBlock

Fdoid

OpenStreetMap

Blender

Wikipedia

Matrix

Newpipe

Pihole

Mastodon

Darktable

Krita

Gimp

Debian and mozilla.

Gimp or libre office.

GrapheneOS

Kdenlive (my video editor, already donate them $40/yr)

Krita (image editing program I occasionally use)

Linux Lite (my first distro)

Lemmy (obvious)

uBlock origin (obvious)

Internet archive (to preserve what we had)

EFF (to fight against corporations trying to bend the laws in their favor)

Some Apps I've used from F-droid

KDE, Lemmy, Mozilla, Eclipse, and openSUSE. £1000 each.

Lemmy, Mastodon, Mozilla (Firefox), MuseScore (music notation), VLC

No one mentioned LibreOffice and LibreWolf . They deserve all support

Desktop:

Debian.
xfce.
Firefox.
Thunderbird.
mpv.

Android:
Tachiyomi. Newpipe.
K-9 mail.
Fennec.
F-droid.
Simple app suite.

mastodon (& tusky) lemmy (& thunder) helix editor lapce forgejo bitwarden alacritty linux kernel ublock origin signal

That's off the top of my head. I think I might also print a bunch of stickers promoting the fediverse.

I've already done a small donation to Pihole because I'm broke. If I had 5k to donate, that money would go to them again.

1000 each to jellyfin, OBSProject, Linux Mint, Calibre, and Krita

PeerTube

Organic Maps and F-Droid

Sponsorblock

I recently donated to immich. That project created a product that allows me to take back ownership over my photographs and no longer am I dependent on Google for my memories.

• ReactOS (to transition towards x86_64)
• XFCE
• Eclipse
• GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
• Krita
• RawTherapee
• Fornjot (the CAD written in Rust)

Newpipe

Joplin. End-to-end-encrypted, markdown-formatted note-taking app that you can either sync using the cloud, Syncthing, or use entirely offline.

Kiwix since it allows accessing some services offline (Wikipedia, iFixit, StackOverflow) where Internet cannot be taken for granted. You can host a small Kiwix server than can be accessed as a local hotspot and browser whatever packages were downloaded into it.

Artix Linux (my personal distro)

Graphene OS (my phone)

NeoVim (my text editor)

LibreWolf (my browser)

ublockOrigin (my God)

Honorable mention: OpenStreetMaps

Probably some others after more thought... but first off, to:

Trisquel GNU/Linux

LibreOffice

VLC

GIMP

Audacity

Mixxx

Xiph.org (Ogg/Theora)

Aard2

7-Zip

wget

Vim

uBlock Origin

LineageOS

Blender Studio Films (open films)

Pepper & Carrot (webcomic)

Celestia

Minetest

Lichess

0ad

Not my favourite but the most important: A proper fully integrated clinical information system. Currently all OSS are lacking behind seriously and especially the developing world but also rich countries would benefit so much from a proper system. But sadly even that amount wouldn't cut it.

This is a topic that really needs money to safe lifes and safe money for everyone.

I buy computers from System76; does that count?

Gimp

Joplin and Lemmy.

Joplin finally freed me from dealing with the likes of Evernote ever again.

XLD, Handbrake, Yattee, EmuDeck, IINA, and also Invidious like yourself :)

Edit: I would also like to add Pock!

• postmarketOS and the people porting Linux to phones
• Panfrost devs
• Nouveau/NVK
• Yuzu (to get better Intel Arc support on Linux)
• Libraries I use in OpenRGB

I already donate to one of the libraries I use on GitHub sponsors, also the box86 developer and a few others. I am donating to the UVTools developer as it was cheaper than paying for the shitty proprietary software subscription for my resin printer. I've donated to pmOS in the past as well as Debian and Arch.

Sponsorblock

Revanced Manager

Infinity for reddit

F-Droid

Wikipedia

Blender

New pipe

Mastodon

Gimp

KDE

Lemmy

Minetest

Lichess

Codeberg

Thunderbird

Internet Archive

Loads of good choices here, i would like to add calibre and darktable.

The Tor project, Libre Office, Signal, Matrix.org, NixOS, Fedora

Give everything to NixOS

Qutebrowser as I use it daily, and it is by far the best browser for me.

A lot of the options listed in this thread are good choices - but most are big projects that get a fair amount of financial attention as it is (though very rarely enough to actually support the devs).

If I had $5k to donate to a project, I'd choose some of the really small FOSS projects that I use heavily, like AudiobookShelf

Emacs/Doom Emacs, Linux foundation, VLC, Latex/Tikz, KeePassXC, LibreOffice.

Archlinux + EndeavourOS

Lemmy Devs + Instance admin

Gnome

Voyager

Wine

Mangohud

Ublock origin

Pipewire

KiCad, FreeCAD, GIMP, Inkscape, & LibreOffice.

Definitely this order:

• FreeCAD

• KiCAD

• Jellyfin

• Bazarr

• Immich

• Prusaslicer

• Homeassistant

Half to debian, half to i3wm.