What FOSS projects do y'all donate to?

I am personally donating: First to Interstellar, the mbin/Lemmy/piefed client I'm using right now to create this post and second to KDE, even tho I'm a GNOME user, I like that they host their own fediverse instance ( https://lemmy.kde.social/ ), so I support them.

And what projects are y'all do donating to, if any at all?

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Mihies@programming.dev · 18 pts · 292d

I donate occasionally, specially when I use it a lot. Last donation was to KDE.

6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 292d (1 reply)

I pay for kind-of open-source projects like Bitwarden and Tuta. I donate to GrapheneOS and smaller stuff as much as I can.

illusionist@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 292d

They are not only kind-of foss. I'd call it support and not donate :)

SinTan1729@programming.dev · 9 pts · 292d

I try to donate to a couple of projects every month. I just use too many FOSS projects to commit to only a few and donate regularly. So, it keeps changing. Some recurring ones are FFmpeg, KDE, Signal, Jellyfin, CoMaps, and Wireguard.

yaroto98@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 292d

Only one I've donated to (unfortunately), is Garuda. When I built my gaming PC, I had budgeted money for a copy of windows. But after I built it I was loving my steam deck so much that I had the thought to install linux instead. Garuda is the arch for gaming with the easy install of something like endeavor. Probably mostly marketing, but I love their look too. Gaming has been great on it, and I sent them the windows money. $120 or so iirc.

rozodru@pie.andmc.ca · 6 pts · 292d

Codeberg I donate to once a month. If I find some repo or project/cli/tui or whatever that I enjoy using I'll donate to their Ko-Fi.

Basically Codeberg is guaranteed and for anything else it's whatever peaked my interest at that moment.

illusionist@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 292d (1 reply)

KDE. GnOmE has no public IBAN, afaik. They only use stripe and other weird services which I don't support.

I also donate to other projects that publish IBAN. If they only use stripe or paypal, I won't donate. It's just too expensive.

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 3 pts · 292d

Same. And projects that only use Github Donate (or whatever it's called) are also out.

twinnie@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 292d

I donated to Wikipedia which I’ve been dining out on ever since. I actually tried twice to donate to Feddit.uk but the donations work for a few months then it wants to authenticate or something and it craps out.

derin@lemmy.beru.co · 5 pts · 292d

Matrix. I use it as my primary form of communication so I thought I should give back. I also support via github sponsors some of the bridges I use on matrix.

jonathan@piefed.social · 5 pts · 292d

I've been sending Gnome €10 a month for 5 years now, ever since I switched full time from Mac OS. I also make one-off donations to other projects, particularly apps that I like with small userbases.

JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 292d

I was not earning enough to donate with our renovation to try to fund, then I was also unemployed for a period, but now I have a new job that pays around 300€ more net per month, so I think I can start donating and still pay for the house and renovation.

  • FreeCAD
  • KiCAD
  • immich
  • gadgetbridge
  • codeberg
  • KDE
  • Krita

Some projects that I use a lot don't want donations (jellyfin, antennapod, HomeAssistant, etc...) though

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Servo and PostmarketOS. I think those are the two most important projects right now. If we want to have free software in the future we will need free platforms to run it on.

chasteinsect@programming.dev · 1 pts · 292d

That's cool. Never heard of PostmarketOS before.

biotin7@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 292d

One time donation to, Liberapay. But I hope they integrate GNU-Taler

paequ2@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 292d

LogSeq and RDE, but I gotta add more. Thanks for reminding me.

chasteinsect@programming.dev · 2 pts · 292d

I have a set amount of "donation money" for FOSS every month. Most of these donations are not recurring, if i find a valuable FOSS project that actually helps me I give back some % of that amount, sometimes if there's a lot of them I flip between them. That being said I have donated now 3 months in a row to Hyprland since I use it and I think it's great.

Panties@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 292d

I allocate 50€ a month for donations/support. Apart from regularly donating to my Lemmy instance and Codeberg, I keep a list of other open source projects I use and slowly go through it with one-off donations, since I can't afford to donate to all of them regularly.

Zoma@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 288d

I fucking love Audacious