I’ve got some standing orders of 1 or 2 euros every month for bigger projects like grapheneos and kde. And for small apps that I actively use, I try to donate 5 or 10 euros now and then. It’s not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run
I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.
Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲
When one of my “cloud” devices / services becomes “enshittified”, I’ll donate what the provide is asking to a related open source self-hosted project.
I also “buy” the major update for whatever software I use regularly.
I donate 25€ per month to Droidian. It uses the Android kernel to run a Debian based Linux distro on phones.
Though I would rather see mainline Linux on phones succeed, I believe this could be the best alternative to iOS / Android (OS) until that happens.
None because I’m barely managing to avoid homelessness each month if I made more then I would do so though.
1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.
I donate 100€ to KDE every year. I consider it my “windows license”, since it was the DE that allowed me to escape from windows 7 years ago.
Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.
I pay for BitWarden, not so much because of any feature in their premium offering as that they are critical infrastructure for me and have acted consistently ethically. Also the annual Wikipedia and for a while Mozilla monthly. Way less than what I feel is deserving.
However, I have been working on building a social foss funding site where you set a total recurring donation amount which is then distributed by the Method of Equal Shares accordrding to weights you specify, ether manually or sourced from your os package manager.
Main benefits of that approach is that your budget is fixed, you can spread it over an arbitrary number of recipients, and priority is given to those that are more unique to you.
Would love to hear thoughts if anyone is interested. I hope to maybe test out an alpha version some time in 2026 if time permits.
Sounds cool. I do like the idea of sourcing it from the package manager, because honestly there is an insane amount of packages that go into a modern distro and knowing them all is either impractical or impossible. Something like this would also be nice for charity donations as well. It might exist for that, but if it does I’m unaware of it.
None, I’m unemployed and don’t have the money to spare :3
When I still had my last job I would donate really any time I thought about it, around 5-10$ a time. Still not really enough, but it was part time minimum wage.
Infrequently. Sometimes like 5 euros. Could do more but I am not fully reliant on open source. I wish ublock origin accepted donations though.
What I will say is that if you donate small amounts, saving up is better if possible. I know some charities I donate to mentioned transaction charges could be 1 or 2 euros per transaction. So donating a low amount could really eat into your donation.
In Germay / Europe we have a good banking system where oftentimes you don’t pay for the transaction. You just need an IBAN.
Giving money to stripe or paypal seems to be nuts, imo.
I am European but it really depends in what service they use for the automation.
I donate 5 to 10 aud every 6 months or so for connect for lemmy since i use it every day
One time donations of $5 only, I am poor
I donate 0. I hope I’ll be able to do more once I get the new job. (I have a monthly donation budget, but it’s spent on other causes at the moment.)
I live by rule “if everyone gave me 1 euro…” so I donate 1 euro/month to projects I use often (but I send actually 12/year to spare the devs some trx costs) and 1 euro/year to projects that I use sometimes (again I send 5 Eur/5 years actually). I use almost only open source and I haven’t yet paid everyone. I also recently made an open source application where I didn’t setup any donations channel, I simply like doing it… Maybe in the future if I have more work on it, but not now…
I like the little badge I get for being a donar on Signal. Other than that, my default is $5/mo or whatever the site’s recommended amount is.
