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.

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.

  • Evans@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    I do this too! $5/month to Fedilab, Wikipedia, OrganicMaps, AntennaPod, Signal, among others. Gotta support open source!

  • Quintus@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    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.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Donations add up. If everyone did what you’re proposing, many projects would likely get no donations. Ideally everyone would donate a small amount to every project they use, which would all add together to be a sizable amount for all projects that are frequently used.

      We aren’t all one person. We don’t need to all act as if we’re one. We should act as if we’re a community, because we are. Support all projects, and they’ll all get support.