If so, how do you choose which ones to donate to? Do you prefer regular or recurring donations? What payment methods do you like to use?
I do, some recurring some one-time. It really depends on how well funded the project already is
- Lemmy
- My local Lemmy instance
- Lutris
- KDE
- Not sure if you want to count paying for Bitwarden
I pay a small amount monthly to each, I figure instead of paying $5-10 for Netflix or something, I’ll give it instead to these fantastic folks. Most of them are going through some major service, whether that’s Patreon, Paypal, whatever…I already have a credit card with my spending being tracked, I don’t mind if my love for the open source community becomes a documented metric.
I’ve given one time donations to many. Mostly gaming and MiSTer related. I currently donate monthly to lemmy.
Yeah, I make a comfortable living doing software, and having kids didn’t work out. So I give out a few hundred bucks a year spread across the likes of Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, and some one off donations to smaller projects that end up saving me some time. Free software costs me more than proprietary software. Haha. (Well, unless I factor in the software I use for work… Then not even close O_o)
I get the impression that maybe the money sent to Mozilla might be a waste though. :-\
FSF - $10
DivestOS developer who is maintainer for Mull and Fennec as well.
GrapheneOS and Piped
I try to.
Gentoo
I donate sometimes with monero
I’m a monthly donor to KDE EV and to the Mozilla Foundation.
I brought every albums by Taylor Swift and am broke.
I use monero to donate monthly to projects I use
- Grapheneos
- Molly.im
- Divest
- Tor
- Free tube
- Keypass
- Qubes!!
- Privacy guides
I use monero to pay for services i use
- Mullvad
For the projects that don’t accept monero I use Libre pay
- Briar…
Why briar of all projects doesn’t accept monero I will never know…
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I tried to drink the Kool-Aid, I have to use the ecosystem if I want to support the ecosystem, if I want it to grow. The same reason I’m using lemmy
If you want to see options I recommend https://monerica.com/#non-profits
Qubes is so cool. The most under-rated Linux distro imo. Not my daily driver but a very cool concept.
Yes! They’re my kind of crazy.
I run it on one of my machines all the time. I’d say after about 3 weeks it’s totally usable, you get used to the quirks. Framework is such a good pairing with qubes.
Framework is such a good pairing with any Linux distro
There, fixed that for you.
It wasn’t broken. But thank you for letting people know it works on platforms other then xen.
I’ve set up a recurring donation for Signal, pay for a yearly Bitwarden subscription that I don’t really need because the free tier covers my needs, so I consider it a donation, too, and throw some pocket money at some projects every new and then. oh and I have Mullvad and Tuta subscriptions.
at the beginning of the month, I donate 5-10% of what I have in my bank account to whichever project I like to support atm. this month, a really nice symfonium update dropped and I like the direction KDE is going, so this is where my money will go to in 5 days
I love this idea (of just picking something I’m loving each month), it would help me overcome my decision paralysis about who to support.
