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Discussion: Do you donate financially to any OSS projects? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If so, how do you choose which ones to donate to? Do you prefer regular or recurring donations? What payment methods do you like to use?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

there are some good guys out there

I know that. But it's just a general rule at this point: I just don't give money. It's rarely satisfying to give money (and yes, the person doing the donation needs to feel good doing it too) and I just don't want to find out who deserves to get mine and who doesn't. I understand your sentiment too, but that's my personal rule. One has to draw the line somewhere: I'm not Mother Theresa and I reckon I contribute more than the average person to my local community. But I'm also free to donate what I want to donate, and money isn't part of what I want to donate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That is more than fair enough, as said, not trying to get you to donate or anything, especially if you already donate your time. Just hoping to put something out there that some of us really do take the donations seriously and we try to be as transparent as possible with everything, I just wish more projects would do that to shake some of the potential mistrust.