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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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So as much as I dislike crypto, it is basically built to be enshitification proof. And hence a good fit for the fediverse. But I wouldn't want to touch the crypto ecosystem with a ten foot pole, nevermind a lemmy/mastodon integration

Which leaves us at the behest of traditional payment processors, and they are all faceless conglomerates who care not for anyone. Meaning we're fucked there too

Maybe we should instead not bring transactions to the fediverse

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How much are the gas fees these days?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sub penny on L2 and a couple / a few cents on mainnet unless a big event is happening on main.