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 20 points 2 months ago (7 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.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

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

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