I do, some recurring some one-time. It really depends on how well funded the project already is

FSF - $10

• Lemmy
• My local Lemmy instance
• Lutris
• KDE
• Not sure if you want to count paying for Bitwarden

I pay a small amount monthly to each, I figure instead of paying $5-10 for Netflix or something, I’ll give it instead to these fantastic folks. Most of them are going through some major service, whether that’s Patreon, Paypal, whatever…I already have a credit card with my spending being tracked, I don’t mind if my love for the open source community becomes a documented metric.

I use monero to donate monthly to projects I use

• Grapheneos
• Molly.im
• Divest
• Tor
• Free tube
• Keypass
• Qubes!!
• Privacy guides

I use monero to pay for services i use

• Mullvad

For the projects that don’t accept monero I use Libre pay

• Briar…

Why briar of all projects doesn’t accept monero I will never know…

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I tried to drink the Kool-Aid, I have to use the ecosystem if I want to support the ecosystem, if I want it to grow. The same reason I’m using lemmy

If you want to see options I recommend https://monerica.com/#non-profits

I’ve set up a recurring donation for Signal, pay for a yearly Bitwarden subscription that I don’t really need because the free tier covers my needs, so I consider it a donation, too, and throw some pocket money at some projects every new and then. oh and I have Mullvad and Tuta subscriptions.

DivestOS developer who is maintainer for Mull and Fennec as well.

I’ve given one time donations to many. Mostly gaming and MiSTer related. I currently donate monthly to lemmy.

I wish I could donate to many software projects I rely on regularly. Unfortunately I barely make a living now and being in a developing country makes donations hard to do with all the fees and regulations, as well as the difference in currency (1 dollar is 7-ish of our currency). I still feel guilty about not being able to do that. But maybe in the future I’ll be able assuage that guilt. I am learning how to code though and can already make some things. I’ll look into contributing code when I feel I can do that.

I’m donating to a few projects and also to some fediverse admins, whose instance I use.

I really like liberapay as a platform, but there are other ways I use for donations, too. Recurring payment is preferred for projects that are important for me, but one time donations are fine too. I just constantly forget that I should probably donate again for projects that don’t have a way for Recurring donations and they’re probably missing out…

I try to.

I have a monthly budget that I pay recurring charges out of, a couple hundred USD a year give or take.

I also do a lot of one-off donations to various projects and creators.

I also have some FOSS software/services that I pay monthly for premium features on, like Bitwarden, Proton, and Podverse.

I’m a programmer. I have created, maintained and contributed to many open source projects over 40 years. That’s my donation.

I never give money: I give my time - like for example I’m a volunteer at our local association for the blind - and I give non-commercial things like my blood, used clothing, used toys or food. And to repay the other developers whose work I enjoy everyday, I donate code that I strive to make as good as possible.

The reason I never give money is because the money - part or all - invariably ends up in someone’s pocket other than the intended recipient. When it’s legal, it’s called “overhead”. Still, legal or not, and justified or not, I’m not interested in paying for that.

I can’t really afford recurring donations but I’ve done one-off donations to projects I value (especially smaller ones).

I donate regurlay to:

• OSMand
• Signal
• Bitwarden

I have to admit that I don’t. I have done a couple of one-off donations before but I generally hope that my karma is balanced by some of the effort I put into helping out with a couple of projects.

That said, I’ve been utterly floored as to how generous the community has been with donating to one project I help with in particular. We added a donation platform with OpenCollective early on in the project but kind of hid the link away a little in the navbar, I thought we might get a tiny bit thrown at us every so often. When Distrotube did a video on us, one of the comments he made is that we should make the Donate button much more obvious, we did and now we have a whole bunch of super generous sponsors backing the project and making it possible. We keep the spending as open as we possibly can - it mostly goes into our backend hosting costs and website stuff and really does help it all stay alive.