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.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

That's really nicely done, good work!

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