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.

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[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've said it before, I think there's money in a service that crowd funds open source donations.

I use so much FOSS that making sure they all get some money is a real first world problem. If I can only give £10 that month what do I do? Rotate who gets the tenner? Give everyone £.20? Then you have to figure out how each service wants funding and organise that.

Instead I could go to FOSSfund select all the software I use and donate £x. That money gets divvyed up and stored with other people's donations until a threshold is reached.

When enough money is accrued the service makes a substantial donation. The FOSSfund itself is funded through interest gained while holding donations.

Of course I am a naive user that wants good things to exist and has no idea the difficulties in making them happen. Brb, off to vibecode a payment system. I forsee no problems. I will not be taking questions or feedback at this time.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think https://liberapay.com/ does that?

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Holy-shit it does!!! I couldn't find any of the main repos I want to donate too: Pi-Hole, jellyfin/seerr, *arr, immich. I guess that's an outreach problem? Getting PromoFaux (Pi-Hole) onto librapay. Pledges seem to help with that.

But Lemmy, Syncthing and Vaultwardern is in in there. I have a tonne of services using MySQL, it's in there.

Thank you kind stranger, my bank acct hates you.

[–] Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

immich does not accept donations anymore, they "sell you a license" (there was a loot of drama for this...).

jellyfin does not accept donations at all. they say that in the website.

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 days ago

I saw Immich's licence. I don't want to dig up old drama though.

I was unaware jellyfin didn't take donations.

I thought they would both take donations though. Money is money after all.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember, Passw0rd1! is a handy filler, meets most password requirements, and is a strong password!

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

'Hunter2' Was my original plan, yours is much better with a special charachter, thank you.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Which is that? All I see is "*******".