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Just a thought in relation to the debate of payment models used in Foss an closed code projects that got going with the sync app (and elsewhere).

So I donate now and then to projects I like. I realised it was a while since last time.

Ok so who did I sent to last time? How did I send it , it was like 2 different crypto some PayPal and something else I think?

I will have to check every single project used to see how to send , how to separate donations and actually remember everything.

What would be ideal , check in on F-droid , select from my list of installed apps , add a few non-android projects I also want to donate to. Selecta sum , single or recurring. Pay one sum and have it split between projects.

Seems like there would be plenty of incentive for this to be made to reality ?

Perhaps some other solution out there I haven't heard of?

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[–] ippokratis@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thats a great idea but it will require some short of an fdroid account

I mean your donation history have to be stored somewhere in case the apps data on phone gets wiped e.g. app uninstalled

You can view your donations in github though

[–] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea that's true but not a dealbreaker for me. Would be fine if it did not survive uninstalls . Could be a backup made manually if needed.

[–] ippokratis@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can imagine some implementation without login e.g. read your donations from your github,kofi etc acounts if thats even posible

btw does feature requests make sense here? Isn't a GitLab issue more suitable?

[–] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yea , I just wanted to float the idea before making any suggestions. I might have missed something.