• Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • haych@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Same reason I don’t donate to Wikipedia. They act like they’re running on fumes but in reality they have money.

    • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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).

      • happyhippo@feddit.it
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • raubarno@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago
    • ReactOS (to transition towards x86_64)
    • XFCE
    • Eclipse
    • GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
    • Krita
    • RawTherapee
    • Fornjot (the CAD written in Rust)
  • krash@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I recently donated to immich. That project created a product that allows me to take back ownership over my photographs and no longer am I dependent on Google for my memories.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    2·
    1 year ago

    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 )

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    For me, I would definitely put the money into the open medical science stuff going on, like projects that are working towards open source insulin production and pumps and stuff. A close relative is diabetic (T1), and the things he buys just to stay alive are not cheap, and I would want that to change. The work those people are doing is extremely important, since insulin production is currently a very complex process and it takes significant time. Large Pharma companies have labs dedicated to doing it and they’ve streamlined the more traditional ways of doing it, which, due to the complexity, those methods have a very high (financial) barrier to entry, which keeps other, more generic labs from producing the substance needed for diabetics to live.

    I’m talking about liquid insulin.

    The FOSS push on this is focused on making a simpler method of production, and delivery of the insulin, giving third party and generic drug manufacturers an alternative to the high-cost of setting up a manufacturing line for insulin, and hopefully driving costs down.

    They’re also working on delivery systems, aka insulin pumps, that are FOSS. The problem there will be regulatory approval; the medical community is fairly strict when it comes to this stuff… In any case, as nice as many things mentioned here are, I always feel that those guys always need help.

    • andruid@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Openinsulin is one of those donations that I never cancel the reoccurring payments too. It’s a huge problem in the US but also places all around the world that even universal healthcare just here in the states wouldn’t solve, but pushing for open development and lowering costs makes it easier for people not in wealth to get.

  • 0xCAFe@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      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!

  • philpo@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.