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Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Imma be straight up. Donations are cool but not a lot of people give donations. partly because some are skint (i used to be) but mainly because people just don’t know.

i feel like the biggest issue that foss projects face is the fact that they don’t ask for donations in a way that the average user knows about. Kde sends a notification around christmas asking for donos. I haven’t seen any other foss app do anything similar.

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cageythree@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I give donations, but way less than I’d like (less in terms of quantity of recipients, not the total financial quantity).

What I’d love (not only for FOSS, but also stuff like podcasts and other things I’m donating to regularly) would be a service where I can set a budget and select the software and tools I use and it splits it up automatically.

I don’t mind donating, but I hate managing it, having dozens of small transactions for it, and I feel like I’m forgetting to donate to like 90+% of the stuff I’m using. Also, with payment provider’s fees it’s often not worth it to donate <1€ a month, so bundling transactions would be way more effective - for me as the user as well as the recipients who’d get one transaction once a month from said service rather than hundreds of small ones.

I never really understood why e.g. Patreon doesn’t offer this. You can’t expect perks with this because the perks probably will start higher than what’s the breakdown of each recipient woild be at a reasonable budget, but the advantage would be that (mostly) everyone would get a piece of your cake, rather than like 5 of the 500 different creators/developers/… you’re using content/software of.

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- Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  sounds like a good business idea to me… maybe i could make something like this if nothing else exists
  
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- lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  tidelift.com/about/lifter
  
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Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
A lot of them have a donate button on their download page.

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- Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I understand that but think about it. As a Linux user, i don’t go to dowload pages. I simply apt install or pacman -S or change my configuration.nix. I will never see that donate button unless I go to the project’s page.
  
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  - Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I go to my favorite software’s pages from time to time to see what they’re up to. Also, there are a few pieces that I have to visit the site for news when a non-free dependancy updatea.
    
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