do you know any platforms that can help me donate to different open source projects regardless of what donation "channels" they are using? Some kind of aggregator where I load my money, choose projects I want to support, and this platform handles everything else - for example, I don't need to care that one project uses OpenCollective and another project accepts only "manual" donations in crypto, that aggregation donation platform would handle everything by itself.

If you don't know such platforms, do you think one should be created to potentially improve the donation flow so more people can donate to different projects more easily?

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[–] humano@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Maybe you can check https://liberapay.com/.

You can take a look at the supported projects before signing up.

You can find projects like GIMP, F-Droid, Mastodon, codeberg, Lemmy there, and you can also find programmers that you may know.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah I’d love such a thing!

You could log to one service and use it to give to every open source project, no matter if they use Patreon or another platform.

Still it would be sensitive to handle as there would be credit cards informations..

What I’ve created is a Firefox bookmark with the « donate » page of every project I wanna support.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I think tools like Open Collective, Ko-fi, et al. are sort of that already. So you’d be building centralization atop centralization. That may be useful, but it is another place that would require a rake to keep the lights on, so again less money donated.

And what happens if two or more such services exist? Then you need a layer above that.

[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 2 days ago

I don't think that's possible.