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?
19 Comments
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
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
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.
Some projects that I use a lot don't want donations (jellyfin, antennapod, HomeAssistant, etc...) though
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 292d
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