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.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Wouldn’t this kind of projects benefit from implementing GNU Taler? Even if only a tiny fraction of people do use it, if there are reference implementation that all such funding platform can rely on, it could make the network grow quite fast.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    “Payment system” makes it sound like a replacement for PayPal or Stripe.

    But it’s really a replacement for ko-fi or buy me a coffee.

    I want to see how they handle PCI data but this seems promising.