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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’ve said it before, I think there’s money in a service that crowd funds open source donations.

I use so much FOSS that making sure they all get some money is a real first world problem. If I can only give £10 that month what do I do? Rotate who gets the tenner? Give everyone £.20? Then you have to figure out how each service wants funding and organise that.

Instead I could go to FOSSfund select all the software I use and donate £x. That money gets divvyed up and stored with other people’s donations until a threshold is reached.

When enough money is accrued the service makes a substantial donation. The FOSSfund itself is funded through interest gained while holding donations.

Of course I am a naive user that wants good things to exist and has no idea the difficulties in making them happen. Brb, off to vibecode a payment system. I forsee no problems. I will not be taking questions or feedback at this time.

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rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think https://liberapay.com/ does that?

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- Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Holy-shit it does!!! I couldn’t find any of the main repos I want to donate too: Pi-Hole, jellyfin/seerr, *arr, immich. I guess that’s an outreach problem? Getting PromoFaux (Pi-Hole) onto librapay. Pledges seem to help with that.
  
  But Lemmy, Syncthing and Vaultwardern is in in there. I have a tonne of services using MySQL, it’s in there.
  
  Thank you kind stranger, my bank acct hates you.
  
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  - Everyday0764@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    immich does not accept donations anymore, they “sell you a license” (there was a loot of drama for this…).
    
    jellyfin does not accept donations at all. they say that in the website.
    
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    Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I saw Immich’s licence. I don’t want to dig up old drama though.
    
    I was unaware jellyfin didn’t take donations.
    
    I thought they would both take donations though. Money is money after all.
    
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GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Remember, Passw0rd1! is a handy filler, meets most password requirements, and is a strong password!

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- Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  ‘Hunter2’ Was my original plan, yours is much better with a special charachter, thank you.
  
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  - GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Which is that? All I see is “*******”.
    
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