I am personally donating: First to Interstellar, the mbin/Lemmy/piefed client I’m using right now to create this post and second to KDE, even tho I’m a GNOME user, I like that they host their own fediverse instance ( https://lemmy.kde.social/ ), so I support them.
And what projects are y’all do donating to, if any at all?
I fucking love Audacious
I donate occasionally, specially when I use it a lot. Last donation was to KDE.
I pay for kind-of open-source projects like Bitwarden and Tuta. I donate to GrapheneOS and smaller stuff as much as I can.
I was not earning enough to donate with our renovation to try to fund, then I was also unemployed for a period, but now I have a new job that pays around 300€ more net per month, so I think I can start donating and still pay for the house and renovation.
- FreeCAD
- KiCAD
- immich
- gadgetbridge
- codeberg
- KDE
- Krita
Some projects that I use a lot don’t want donations (jellyfin, antennapod, HomeAssistant, etc…) though
I try to donate to a couple of projects every month. I just use too many FOSS projects to commit to only a few and donate regularly. So, it keeps changing. Some recurring ones are FFmpeg, KDE, Signal, Jellyfin, CoMaps, and Wireguard.
Only one I’ve donated to (unfortunately), is Garuda. When I built my gaming PC, I had budgeted money for a copy of windows. But after I built it I was loving my steam deck so much that I had the thought to install linux instead. Garuda is the arch for gaming with the easy install of something like endeavor. Probably mostly marketing, but I love their look too. Gaming has been great on it, and I sent them the windows money. $120 or so iirc.
I have a set amount of “donation money” for FOSS every month. Most of these donations are not recurring, if i find a valuable FOSS project that actually helps me I give back some % of that amount, sometimes if there’s a lot of them I flip between them. That being said I have donated now 3 months in a row to Hyprland since I use it and I think it’s great.
Servo and PostmarketOS. I think those are the two most important projects right now. If we want to have free software in the future we will need free platforms to run it on.
That’s cool. Never heard of PostmarketOS before.
I donated to Wikipedia which I’ve been dining out on ever since. I actually tried twice to donate to Feddit.uk but the donations work for a few months then it wants to authenticate or something and it craps out.
I allocate 50€ a month for donations/support. Apart from regularly donating to my Lemmy instance and Codeberg, I keep a list of other open source projects I use and slowly go through it with one-off donations, since I can’t afford to donate to all of them regularly.
