This was initially demoed at FediCon 2025, but CrowdBucks is an open source, self-hostable fundraising system that allows people to financially support one another. You use your existing Fediverse account to hold a fundraiser, and can also donate to other people’s fundraisers as well. The form factor is kind of similar to Kickstarter or Patreon.
Sweet so now we have OpenCollective, Librepay, and now CrowdBucks. All kind of filling different roles it seems. On going orgnization funding (with transparency as a goal), patronige of a project/group you support (with ease as a goal), and now fundraising (which is generally a limited time activity).
Am I comparing them all pretty well here? Or is there anythjng im missing?
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
tl;dr: it uses stripe
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Support for other providers is coming. Bandwagon is in a similar situation. The overall goal is to support a multitude of options, so that no one payment solution has a monopoly.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
What is Stripe?
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 month ago
The company that’s involved with the payment disputes between Steam, MasterCard, banks, 18+ games and Collective Shout. Stripe is the one handling payments between Steam and MasterCard. It got blamed, blamed others in return and suddenly is known to a lot more people but not in a good way.
poplargrove@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Payment provider. Stripe.com