CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse - We Distribute
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A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there’s a huge amount of promise.

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.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Actually, there’s a pretty decent possibility of this happening! Ben from Bandwagon is currently looking into this for the underlying Emissary platform. If it proves easy enough to integrate, there’s literally no reason not to.

      Proving it in one project might see adoption across similar efforts.

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    From their website

    From people you know

    CrowdBucks is created by individual people you know, and not a large face-less corporation

    And yet, there are no people shown on the website. How do I do know if I know these people?

  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    11·
    8 months 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.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    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?