This might be a somewhat unusual post, but I’ve made a pledge to myself to financially support Fediverse creators whose content I enjoy and I’d like to make an attempt to inspire others to do the same.

I want to make it very clear that the amount you donate does not matter! It’s not a competition.

I make small donations (~1-5$/mo) to some of my favourites because I plan on supporting them indefinitely which is usually better than one-time donations. This unfortunately also means that it will require multiple people to work well, but if we can build a reputation for the Fediverse as a place where people are likely to support your work then it would naturally become more appealing to post here.

I use Liberapay whenever I can because it lets me choose how much I want to donate and how frequent which makes this easy to manage.

You can of course experiment with the conditions (e.g: type of creators), the donation amount or donation frequency. Use what works for you, and again, what matters is that you support someone, not the amount!

    • taco_shale032@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Like others have already said, “creators” isn’t just video creators. I support people and organisations from Mastodon as well for example in addition to developers building the platforms/clients.

      Since you’re on a Lemmy server, you could consider supporting that specific server or Lemmy development in general.

      • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        10 minutes ago

        True. I do support a few foundations like wikimedia, EFF, Calyx, WWF, Arbor Day, etc. I mostly try to support what I feel are necessary for technology or information, and humanity/life.

        I could support my instance. I guess I don’t consider the server owner(s) “creators”, bc they run the instance, not “created” Lemmy, but I guess they “created” Lemmy.today. I’ll have to look into that.

        I wonder if there are donation platforms that you could donate to, so you make 1 donation and it gets divided among a group. Like an index fund but for nonprofits. The point would be it’s easier for someone to make one donation that helps a lot of groups they may not be aware of or that it exists.

        There could be a tech group, humanitarian group, etc. If one doesn’t exist, maybe I’ll look into that too. It’ll be hard to determine who gets what percentage, unless it’s just pooled and split evenly every month. Might be the best method. As new foundations or orgs are added, it’ll just redistribute accordingly.

    • Quicky@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      I would consider creators to also be those who build the platforms we use on the fediverse too.