It started with me wanting to support Lemmy, my Lemmy instance and Voyager. Then I checked what other open source apps I had installed from F-Droid. It would exceed my budget to donate to them all, so I chose the 10 apps that I most frequently use.

This is just my personal list, but I thought it’s a nice idea to share it and maybe others will do the same and donate to their most used open source apps and projects.

  • Evans@lemmy.ml
    19·
    6 days ago

    I do this too! $5/month to Fedilab, Wikipedia, OrganicMaps, AntennaPod, Signal, among others. Gotta support open source!

  • pedroapero@lemmy.ml
    16·
    6 days ago

    I am doing 5-10$ rounds of donations (4-10 projects each generally) to my favourite projects too on a regular basis. I favor XMR transactions as is it largely accepted those days and fees are appropriate for such low amounts.

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.idEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Oh dude I love it! I recently donated to Thunderbird. My first Open Source donation (apart from Wikipedia). Feels good. I generally contribute through testing, but once I start earning a good amount, I’m gonna do what you did…

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    I just went through F-Droid and counted out all the projects I have on my phone. At £5 each I’m looking at an annual bill of about £70/year… Bargain.

    Thanks for the idea!

  • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com
    2·
    6 days ago

    I donate to a few things (eff, fsf, Mozilla, kvaesitso, my Lemmy instance, tasks.org) but want to donate to more (guix, keepassdx, syncthing, eternity, maybe some others).

  • Quintus@lemmy.ml
    224·
    6 days ago

    Wouldn’t it be a better idea to donate a big amount of money to a single project rather than small amounts to many projects?

    Don’t get me wrong, I do support donating to projects but 5 bucks are nothing. Might as well not donate. Donating 50 dollars to one project is much better.

      • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deOP
        21·
        6 days ago

        That’s exactly my idea. I could have just donated and stayed quiet, but I thought I could inspire others to donate as well.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          72·
          6 days ago

          I started pitching in when I realized others were doing it and I was benefiting when I was younger broke… So now it is my turn.

          I pay for FOSS so other people have access to it in some free usable form without spying.

          As middle age cuck with a job, it is my turn.

          We ain’t winning battle against mega corp with thoughts and prayers.

          It takes money to buy whiskey

    • lemonuri@lemmy.ml
      15·
      6 days ago

      I recently heard the idea to donate monthly to one project of your choosing so the developers could rely on a steady income. I think that’s a great way of doing it.

      • Quintus@lemmy.ml
        10·
        6 days ago

        That’s an even better idea! A steady income is much better than donations that may or may not arrive. Thanks for the idea, appreciate it!

    • stationary_melon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      You do you, but it’s better if everyone donates a bit of money to a lot of projects than donating a ton of money to a single project. It’s not like a single individual with a normal salary could fund a project alone anyways.

      Let’s suppose that 10 people have 10 dollars to give each, and there are 4 projects which they all use: Project A is the most important for 7 people, so they recieve $70. Then comes project B with $20 and C with $10. Project D gets no donations.

      But if we ponderate them by average importance it would be: A=0.5, B=0.3, C=0.15 and D=0.05. If they had split their donations, the allocation of funding would have been way more efficient.