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.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 个月前

    We really need to figure out the payment system for the fediverse… Good to see someone trying things.

    When I put Stripe integration into PieFed I had absolutely zero donations through there, meanwhile my Patreon and Librepay had dozens of dollars in donations. Dozens!

    People really really didn’t want to donate directly, for some reason. So I disabled the Stripe option.

    Instead, Patreon takes 8% and their only payout method is Paypal so Paypal takes a percentage (5%?) and then when I transfer it to my bank from Paypal there’s a currency conversion so they take another 5%? and then I pay tax on whatever remains…

    I wish CrowdBucks better luck than I had.

    • Olap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 个月前

      So as much as I dislike crypto, it is basically built to be enshitification proof. And hence a good fit for the fediverse. But I wouldn’t want to touch the crypto ecosystem with a ten foot pole, nevermind a lemmy/mastodon integration

      Which leaves us at the behest of traditional payment processors, and they are all faceless conglomerates who care not for anyone. Meaning we’re fucked there too

      Maybe we should instead not bring transactions to the fediverse

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 个月前

      On our donation page, we put a breakdown of how much each platform takes from the donation and I think that is why a lot of users chose to donate through the methods that have lower / no fees: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

      I imagine as Crowdbucks develops, they will introduce more methods and improve user / platform choice. Dealing with payment platforms is annoying, so I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with over time