This was initially demoed at FediCon 2025, but CrowdBucks is an open source, self-hostable fundraising system that allows people to financially support one another. You use your existing Fediverse account to hold a fundraiser, and can also donate to other people's fundraisers as well. The form factor is kind of similar to Kickstarter or Patreon.
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/
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CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
"Payment system" makes it sound like a replacement for PayPal or Stripe.
But it's really a replacement for ko-fi or buy me a coffee.
I want to see how they handle PCI data but this seems promising.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
It uses stripe
utopiah@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Wouldn't this kind of projects benefit from implementing GNU Taler? Even if only a tiny fraction of people do use it, if there are reference implementation that all such funding platform can rely on, it could make the network grow quite fast.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Does it support Monero and the like?