Post #416281
2026-02-26 07:21 UTC
Replies (18)
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@ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 2026-02-26 07:44
Personally, I donate less to more projects. But, if you don't have a strong opinion of what to donate to, you can get the best of both worlds by donating to [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl/). They fund open source projects up and down the stack, [from open source CPUs](https://nlnet.nl/project/Libre-Chip-proof/) all the way up to applications like [Lemmy](https://nlnet.nl/project/Lemmy-Scale/), and [everything in between](https://nlnet.nl/project/index.html). Some are quite speculative and others are tangible improvements to existing projects.
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@Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 2026-02-26 12:07
Quality > quantity every time
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@slazer2au@lemmy.world 2026-02-26 07:40
Have a look at the programs you use, do any of them accept donations. A tener to your Lemmy host a month would be good too Notepad++ is a good one too. Gimp, Blender, and ~~DaVinci Resolve~~ to give a fuck you to Adobe.
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@Xiol@lemmy.ml 2026-02-26 11:00
This reminds me that I need to throw some money at Syncthing again. I keep forgetting because _it just works_.
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@Paragone@lemmy.world 2026-02-26 09:41
The Austrian-school got 1 thing right, fersure: the less someone has, the greater the difference 1 currency-unit is going to make *to them.* _ /\ _
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@randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 2026-02-26 08:42
Some suggestions: https://organicmaps.app/donate https://www.freecad.org/sponsor.php https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate https://donate.kicad.org/
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@luthis@lemmy.nz 2026-02-26 08:19
Jellyfin apps, for android etc. The main project gets enough donations. Wikipedia, archive.org Godot Donate to more projects with less, it's better for everyone
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@ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2026-02-27 08:41
I spread out my donations, so less to more projects. I also try to prioritize projects that need financial help the most. So as an example, the Linux Mint project is very well funded (especially this year, where they are receiving 30k+ per month) so I personally stopped donating to them so I could shift that money to a project that would benefit far more from the relatively small amounts I can share, such as the Movim project, which is attempting to completely replace Discord with a FLOSS solution, but was only receiving like $40 a month before they started a funding campaign a few days ago. Figure it'll do far more good there to help the dude cover his expenses for providing such a valuable service to us all for free.
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@Juice@midwest.social 2026-02-26 14:28
Do you have projects that you personally admire? I assume you are choosing to donate to open source because you have an affinity for it. Personally I donate to political causes, particularly ones where I participate in/contribute to. Projects where I can get in the discord and talk to people, learn and really experience the practical side. I'm in a few Foss discords as well, so maybe joining some communities and getting to know people working with it, maybe learn to work with it yourself, will help and inform your decision.
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@vapeloki@lemmy.world 2026-02-26 07:57
I am a member of the European free software foundation, that is 10 bucks per month. 90 to go :)
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@deathbird@mander.xyz 2026-02-27 04:57
I'd say spread it around to support projects you use or like.
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@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2026-02-26 19:03
There is a small payment provider overhead so I wouldn't spread too much but spreading a bit is good. You can always donate to lemmy devs.
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@lasta@piefed.world 2026-02-26 08:36
Smaller, recurring donations to several of the projects you use most often or whose purpose you most support is what I would do. You can browse for projects you might want to donate to from [this list on codeberg](https://codeberg.org/boredsquirrel/awesome-donations) or [OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/search?q=&tag=open+source), or look for individual developers you want to support. Personal recommendations: your Linux distribution and Fediverse instances of choice, LibreOffice, WireGuard, Archive.org, Anna’s Archive, Signal, KDE, Wikipedia.
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@First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 2026-02-26 07:30
I think it’s better whatever number of projects you choose, to do so in a recurring way (I think it was the KDE devs that outlined it well) as it provides a lot of stability to a project, that can make long term commitments based on them. Currently I recurrently donate 10€ a month to Asahi Linux :)
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@osanna@lemmy.vg 2026-02-27 11:09
I just spent $15 on an app to play my music from my navidrome, because I use it so much. I could have gone to another app (potentially free), but I like this one so much that i gave them their $15 for their hard work. For anyone interested, it's Nautaline on iOS.
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@rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2026-02-26 14:49
That's you reading meaning into my words. I stated facts about what had happened and asked whether that matters to the recipient.
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@rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2026-02-26 16:02
I don't know enough to make a decision on it. I will follow the rules of my work place when working and look into it more before I make the choice between continuing to use it on my personal time. I haven't had much free time lately, so that is still on the to do list.
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@duub@lemmy.ml 2026-02-26 12:05
I would donate some to deltachat / arcanechat, it's a promising project, and maybe if you have local hosting of some federated oss instance that you use, also freecad, but it's and app that I'm using often