I would donate to (and have donated to some of) the following:
- Vaultwarden
- Jellyfin
- Invidious project and yewtu.be instance
- Shynet
- Riseup VPN
- Photoview
- Jerboa
Probably 100% Mozilla.
The free and open web is so in danger right now.
I wouldn’t donate to a nonprofit that pays 5 mil a year to their CEO, it sounds to me they have the money but waste it on the wrong things.
Same reason I don’t donate to Wikipedia. They act like they’re running on fumes but in reality they have money.
They have a very long history of mismanaging money and wasting it on worthless projects, not to mention multi-million dollar executive salaries while laying off hundreds of workers and many other controversies.
Firefox is the only reason I don’t want that useless walking corpse to die for good. And I can’t even support it, since it belongs to the corporation rather than the foundation.
They have a very long history of mismanaging money and wasting it on worthless projects, not to mention multi-million dollar executive salaries while laying off hundreds of workers and many other controversies.
I don’t think you will find an organisation of that scale that doesn’t have salaries for execs like this, You might not like it but that is an unavoidable reality, you can’t run a business based of wishful thinking.
Some projects got dumped but at least they are taking risk and making new projects (which got us Rust, stack overlow survey favorite language from 2016 - 2023).
Can I donate to EFF instead?
Sure, but if Mozilla dies, Firefox dies and we’re all on chromium 🤮
Mozilla might have mismanaged their money (didn’t know about that), but right now it’s a tangible (and the only) mainstream alternative to Google’s monopoly.
1k to NixOS, (my perfect distro)
500 to NewPipe (dont know what I would do without them)
500 to Bitwarden (for hosting my passwords),
500 to XFCE (for the Wayland transition),
500 to Neovim (my text editor of choice),
500 for Aurora Store (essential for all Custom ROM users, to support them in these difficult times),
500 for the core Lemmy project,
500 for my instance’s maintainers,
and last, but definitely not least:
500 for The Everything Project: A project which aims to provide a unified way to access various platforms and services including but not limited to Lemmy and other Fediverse platforms, Reddit, and more. (no, I’m not a contributor or maintainer, but if you want to be, or just want to find out more: https://github.com/everything-gripe )
A nice alternative to newpipe is LibreTube btw!
I don’t like it. I kinda hate the Material you UI.
Theres also GrayJay, its pretty new tho
Do you have a link? Cant seem to find one
https://releases.grayjay.app/app-arm64-v8a-release.apk
Still in alpha and the source code is not public yet, but full release is September at the latest I think.
uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don’t take donations. So my list would roughly contain:
- Organic Maps
- Thunderbird
- Internet Archive
- Codeberg
I’d like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it’s not possible to only support Firefox development.
uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don’t take donations.
You can always donate to the people who maintain the filter lists!
Gimp or libre office.
Kdenlive (my video editor, already donate them $40/yr)
Krita (image editing program I occasionally use)
Linux Lite (my first distro)
Lemmy (obvious)
uBlock origin (obvious)
Internet archive (to preserve what we had)
EFF (to fight against corporations trying to bend the laws in their favor)
Some Apps I’ve used from F-droid
KDE, Lemmy, Mozilla, Eclipse, and openSUSE. £1000 each.
mastodon (& tusky) lemmy (& thunder) helix editor lapce forgejo bitwarden alacritty linux kernel ublock origin signal
That’s off the top of my head. I think I might also print a bunch of stickers promoting the fediverse.
How do you donate to the linux kernel team(for a lack of a better term). kernel.org does not have any links to donation and neither does the linux foundation
no idea I don’t even know if they actually need/want donations
Sponsorblock
Artix Linux (my personal distro)
Graphene OS (my phone)
NeoVim (my text editor)
LibreWolf (my browser)
ublockOrigin (my God)
Honorable mention: OpenStreetMaps
Not my favourite but the most important: A proper fully integrated clinical information system. Currently all OSS are lacking behind seriously and especially the developing world but also rich countries would benefit so much from a proper system. But sadly even that amount wouldn’t cut it.
This is a topic that really needs money to safe lifes and safe money for everyone.
PeerTube
Newpipe
I’ve already done a small donation to Pihole because I’m broke. If I had 5k to donate, that money would go to them again.
Joplin. End-to-end-encrypted, markdown-formatted note-taking app that you can either sync using the cloud, Syncthing, or use entirely offline.
Kiwix since it allows accessing some services offline (Wikipedia, iFixit, StackOverflow) where Internet cannot be taken for granted. You can host a small Kiwix server than can be accessed as a local hotspot and browser whatever packages were downloaded into it.