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Donating 5 bucks each to my most used F-Droid apps
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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Wouldn't it be a better idea to donate a big amount of money to a single project rather than small amounts to many projects?
Don't get me wrong, I do support donating to projects but 5 bucks are nothing. Might as well not donate. Donating 50 dollars to one project is much better.
@squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 5$ is kinda nothing, but his 5$ plus my 5$ plus your 5$ and all the others that donates, it's something
That's exactly my idea. I could have just donated and stayed quiet, but I thought I could inspire others to donate as well.
I started pitching in when I realized others were doing it and I was benefiting when I was younger broke... So now it is my turn.
I pay for FOSS so other people have access to it in some free usable form without spying.
As middle age cuck with a job, it is my turn.
We ain't winning battle against mega corp with thoughts and prayers.
It takes money to buy whiskey
I recently heard the idea to donate monthly to one project of your choosing so the developers could rely on a steady income. I think that's a great way of doing it.
That's an even better idea! A steady income is much better than donations that may or may not arrive. Thanks for the idea, appreciate it!
That probably ideal, but it should still be spread out so the "less important" projects still get something.
Ah, c'mon man. Don't be like that
This is how some of my friends think about climate change action. Whats the point of doing anything at all if anything you do isn't going to make an impact? It's all about everyone helping some amount, it ads up!
You do you, but it's better if everyone donates a bit of money to a lot of projects than donating a ton of money to a single project. It's not like a single individual with a normal salary could fund a project alone anyways.
Let's suppose that 10 people have 10 dollars to give each, and there are 4 projects which they all use: Project A is the most important for 7 people, so they recieve $70. Then comes project B with $20 and C with $10. Project D gets no donations.
But if we ponderate them by average importance it would be: A=0.5, B=0.3, C=0.15 and D=0.05. If they had split their donations, the allocation of funding would have been way more efficient.
Disagree, if every user of these 10 apps did this it would end up a lot better for them all than every user choosing their favourite and giving them $50. If they choose randomly it would end up roughly the same, but in general people are going to end up skewing towards certain apps over others when forced to choose a favourite.
And if doing it randomly ends up the same as splitting it on a large scale, I think this is the more sensible approach personally.
Donations add up. If everyone did what you're proposing, many projects would likely get no donations. Ideally everyone would donate a small amount to every project they use, which would all add together to be a sizable amount for all projects that are frequently used.
We aren't all one person. We don't need to all act as if we're one. We should act as if we're a community, because we are. Support all projects, and they'll all get support.