There were some posts over the holiday season asking for projects to donate to, and for those who have the means to comfortably do so, this is an important gift to consider.

If there's only a limited amount each of us is able to give, I assume there's no point giving it all to, for one example, The Linux Foundation, because a small personal donation is trivial next to the ~$15,000,000 USD they receive from sponsors dependent on them[1]. I understand that funding sources can be a major and profound source of bias[2] and ideally we would be, for example, helping to make Firefox independent of Google, but until we have more collective power, it's not worth letting smaller important projects struggle instead.

So, which important projects should we leave to the sponsors, and which really need our support?

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 26 minutes ago

Wikimedia, and wikipedia, also firefox

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

AntennaPod states this on their website

AntennaPod doesn’t need a lot of money. Our (annual) costs are already covered by our existing donation funds. Therefore, we’d much prefer it if you

donate to your favorite podcast(er), or

help us with a non-monetary contribution.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Wikipedia could learn from their decency

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 75 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Jellyfin has explicitly asked that people find other places to donate to: https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriously

[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 hours ago

I do see a mention in that post about instead supporting the jellyfin client developers. They give this page as a reference for who to support based on which client you use.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 17 points 11 hours ago

Thanks for sharing this.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 7 hours ago

same with antennapod

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 26 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe I can say Wikipedia because if it’s mediawiki software. Every year they ask for money but a lot of their funds don’t go towards the Wikipedia project.

[–] wargreymon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Their only defence is to support other mediawiki projects, but it is ambiguous we don't know how the money goes. The project, whatever that is, should speak for itself instead of going through Wikipedia.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Getting your ideas from Elon I see.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Did you even read what I said? Go look where their money goes, it’s mostly for random outreach programs.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why do people ask questions like this? Isn't, "Which worthwhile FOSS projects are underfunded?" a better way to say it?

It's just so kludgy.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's a different question.

[–] Apathy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

What makes it a different question, I’m ignorant and ask that you explain

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

firefox I guess actually has enough funding

leverage inc should, make it happen...

[–] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Mozilla is losing the vast majority of its funding soon with the Google antitrust situation