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.
- Lemmy
- My Lemmy instance
- Aegis
- DAVx5
- F-Droid
- Feeder
- HeliBoard
- KeePassDX
- Öffi
- Voyager
- Honorable mention to AntennaPod. It was on this list, but their contribution page states that their costs are already covered.
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.
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.
This is how some of my friends think about climate change action. Whats the point of doing anything at all if anything you do isn’t going to make an impact? It’s all about everyone helping some amount, it ads up!
Disagree, if every user of these 10 apps did this it would end up a lot better for them all than every user choosing their favourite and giving them $50. If they choose randomly it would end up roughly the same, but in general people are going to end up skewing towards certain apps over others when forced to choose a favourite.
And if doing it randomly ends up the same as splitting it on a large scale, I think this is the more sensible approach personally.
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 $10. Project D gets no donations.
But if we ponderate them by average importance it would be: A=0.5, B=0.3, C=0.15 and D=0.05. If they had split their donations, the allocation of funding would have been way more efficient.
@[email protected] 5$ is kinda nothing, but his 5$ plus my 5$ plus your 5$ and all the others that donates, it’s something
That’s exactly my idea. I could have just donated and stayed quiet, but I thought I could inspire others to donate as well.
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