I’ve got some standing orders of 1 or 2 euros every month for bigger projects like grapheneos and kde. And for small apps that I actively use, I try to donate 5 or 10 euros now and then. It’s not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run
I live by rule “if everyone gave me 1 euro…” so I donate 1 euro/month to projects I use often (but I send actually 12/year to spare the devs some trx costs) and 1 euro/year to projects that I use sometimes (again I send 5 Eur/5 years actually). I use almost only open source and I haven’t yet paid everyone. I also recently made an open source application where I didn’t setup any donations channel, I simply like doing it… Maybe in the future if I have more work on it, but not now…
I donate 100€ to KDE every year. I consider it my “windows license”, since it was the DE that allowed me to escape from windows 7 years ago.
I donate to Signal. I intend to increase my contributions to other open source (Linux) projects this year though. I expect them to need it more than ever soon.
1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.
None because I’m barely managing to avoid homelessness each month if I made more then I would do so though.
No problem we each do what we can in this hard world.
I started to donate once a year to my Linux os and apps I like. I also need to set up a small monthly for apps I like. If we don’t show support when we can we will lose the some great projects.
None, I’m unemployed and don’t have the money to spare :3
When I still had my last job I would donate really any time I thought about it, around 5-10$ a time. Still not really enough, but it was part time minimum wage.
I donate 0. I hope I’ll be able to do more once I get the new job. (I have a monthly donation budget, but it’s spent on other causes at the moment.)
I pay for BitWarden, not so much because of any feature in their premium offering as that they are critical infrastructure for me and have acted consistently ethically. Also the annual Wikipedia and for a while Mozilla monthly. Way less than what I feel is deserving.
However, I have been working on building a social foss funding site where you set a total recurring donation amount which is then distributed by the Method of Equal Shares accordrding to weights you specify, ether manually or sourced from your os package manager.
Main benefits of that approach is that your budget is fixed, you can spread it over an arbitrary number of recipients, and priority is given to those that are more unique to you.
Would love to hear thoughts if anyone is interested. I hope to maybe test out an alpha version some time in 2026 if time permits.
Wikipedia has enough money to pay their costs for decades, so I recommend dropping them.
Sounds cool. I do like the idea of sourcing it from the package manager, because honestly there is an insane amount of packages that go into a modern distro and knowing them all is either impractical or impossible. Something like this would also be nice for charity donations as well. It might exist for that, but if it does I’m unaware of it.
Some years I donate nothing. Other years it’s about 50 euro… Depend on a lot of things. I believe in giving to the free software, because that makes it better, and since I’m a user, that’s great - and I like to keep it running.
Yearly budget of $200 for any apps I constantly use. I split the amount between the apps. Donate more if I have extra funds.
Cool I like idea of budget and splitting it between apps
Yeah, I do £10 a month and just give the money to a different project I use each month and log it in my notes app.
It’s not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run
I agree completely with this. I only donate a token amount of ~2 EUR per year to some projects: it won’t do anything by itself, yet still, if everyone did the same, it would be really impactful.
For a few projects that are most important to me, I donate up to ~15 EUR per month. It’s both a lot of money, and also not a lot at the same time. By itself, it still has a tiny impact, but it is a decent monthly expense, especially when donating to a few projects.
To me it really highlights that we can’t help fund anything by ourselves. After donating some amount yourself, the next best thing you can do is encourage other people to donate too!
There’s a really cool project called Snowdrift that tries to harness that dynamic. They came up with a concept called “crowdmatching”, where everyone’s donation is linked to the number of people donating to the project (up to a cap).
Although progress on that project is quite slow, I really hope to see it succeed some day, as I think it really thoughtfully and neatly manages to coordinate people to band together to fund projects, and make a real difference as a group.
I like the little badge I get for being a donar on Signal. Other than that, my default is $5/mo or whatever the site’s recommended amount is.
I donate $50 a year to KDE and GrapheneOS each.
Gonna donate $50 a year to Libreoffice and maybe CachyOS starting June.
Gonna donate the same to the Servo browser if it becomes even remotely usable.
Used to donate to Mint but stopped because I don’t use Mint anymore.
Servo is actually quite usable, right now.
I tried it. If I remember correctly it had no bookmarks, no dark mode, no adblock. Those three features are essential for me in a browser. Especially bookmarks, I have 6500 bookmarks.
6500 bookmarks? Do you use then like I do? Add a bookmark. Never look in bookmarks.
Assuming you do use them, how often do you visit 6500 websites? Seems like searching in general would be easier than searching through your bookmarks.
Do you run a script now and then to see if the site still exists?
Finally I cant tell you how curious I am what you bookmark for 6500 websites. Consider exporting them?
I have my bookmarks in folders and subfolders, so I can find them when I need to.
In terms of what my bookmarks are:
- 2300 Video game bookmarks
- 800 Manga bookmarks
- 600 Music bookmarks
- 750 YouTube videos to watch
- 250 YouTube videos saved because they were good
- 150 News articles and blog posts to read
- 120 Books, movies, and TV series
- 100 Various privacy services I need to switch to
- 600 Old bookmarks that I moved into a folder instead of deleting
The core theme here is that I refuse to use built-in tracking mechanisms. I don’t want vendor lock-in so I use bookmarks instead to manage them (which Qobuz makes very difficult).
I do it differently; I essentially have a software list there, too, and all are categorized.
Gotta say that is organized.
Curious about bookmarking video games. Like games online? Guides? How would that work? You can self host collections, so why the book mark?
Same with Manga, why not self host your own library?
Seems like you are making a lot of work for a browser when the tools to do it much easier are already there.
With games, they’re are various categories like:
- Demos I want to play
- Demos I’ve played and my opinion on them
- Demos that I might want to play, but I haven’t decided yet.
- Games that aren’t worth putting on my Wishlist, but that I’m not prepared to discard entirely.
- Games from my wishlist that I’m unsure if I actually want to play and that I need to sort.
- Games that I haven’t wishlisted but might want to.
- Everything to do with itch.io because their launcher and storefront is garbage.
In terms of manga, I use a database site but there are limitations.
- There are some I’ve read one chapter of and saved for later, some I’ve read nothing of but want to read, and some I’m reading but put on pause because of the release schedule.
- When it’s time to start a new manga, I normally pick out more than one. When that happens I bookmark the list and go back to it after I finished the previous one.
- There are manga from before I started using a manga database and haven’t sorted.
- There are manga that I’ve marked as “want to read” but for various reasons am reconsidering.
- There are oneshots I’ve read on Reddit and saved.
As for why I don’t self-host, I don’t really want to buy more disk space in this economy. Also (and more importantly) a collection of pirated manga is far harder to backup than just a database. In terms of preservation, I have so much new stuff to read that I’m not too fussed if something goes away.
Everything to do with itch.io because their launcher and storefront is garbage.
Isn’t this the truth.
Thanks for kindly responding, I find it interesting.
hoping to figure that out this year, once I do an overhaul of what I’m using and figuring out
just know that half of my budget for this will come from what I was previously spending on mega corp subscriptions (not much, but more than I am now). the other half will be based on its value to me
