So someone recently told me I should cut back on donations to open source projects. So I broke down my spending since October 1st (with subscriptions annualized) and … I’m not spending enough. My spending on FOSS is that 1.3% slither and adding in subscription services makes it 4.1%.
I’m not in a rush to start donations, since I don’t want to add to the December-ness of FOSS donations. I just want to hear people’s thoughts.
I currently donate to:
- GrapheneOS
- KDE
- Mint (Update: Since drawing this graph this has been cancelled. Due to their security and the fact I don’t really use them anymore)
In terms of priorities I have the following:
- Contributes to the “security by default” of the Linux ecosystem.
- Headquartered outside of the US, or at the very least a project that’s a middle-finger to US big tech.
- Something I actually use would be preferable (Currently I use Kubuntu (distro-hop aggressively pending) with DesktopPal97, CachyOS, GrapheneOS, ProtonMail/Drive/Pass, LibreOffice, Steam, Threema, Anki, Lemmy, Firefox, various Accrescent Apps, and various browser extensions)
The real tough part is that I don’t want to use PayPal (Thiel/Musk), GitHub sponsors (Microsoft), or Bitcoin (I’m open to mining it in the background, but I don’t like the idea of turning real cash into fake cash).
So what do you all donate to?
First thing that comes to mind is to do what uBlock Origin developer says, donate to some blocklist maintainer
Looking it up, apparently uBlock Origin mainly uses easylist which itself also refuses donations.
Ohh xd
I use AdGuard myself because it allows ad-blocking to be on a per-site basis opt-in instead of opt-out.