Just had a donations round
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Nice reminder!
For which kind of projects do you give?
What are the core apps, the most important softwares / teams you want to support?For me, I think that Wikipedia, f-droid and davx5 are a bit the core of the core of my value and workflow.
What about you guys?
I've donated a small amount to Wikipedia before, but blooming heck do they hound you after for follow up donations.
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Nice reminder!
For which kind of projects do you give?
What are the core apps, the most important softwares / teams you want to support?For me, I think that Wikipedia, f-droid and davx5 are a bit the core of the core of my value and workflow.
What about you guys?
I regularly donate to wikipedia, the guardian, keepass2android, whatever fund raising Ukraine Matters has at the time I feel like donating and lemmynsfw. Also have a tax deduction directed to animal shelters.
I used to support the internet archive, but I'm still pissed off at their stupidity.
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Nice reminder!
For which kind of projects do you give?
What are the core apps, the most important softwares / teams you want to support?For me, I think that Wikipedia, f-droid and davx5 are a bit the core of the core of my value and workflow.
What about you guys?
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I regularly donate to wikipedia, the guardian, keepass2android, whatever fund raising Ukraine Matters has at the time I feel like donating and lemmynsfw. Also have a tax deduction directed to animal shelters.
I used to support the internet archive, but I'm still pissed off at their stupidity.
but I’m still pissed off at their stupidity.
? what did I miss?
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but I’m still pissed off at their stupidity.
? what did I miss?
Them allowing unlimited book checkouts during covid in defiance of copyright law, resulting in them getting sued and losing bad in court. They knew it was going to get them in trouble and proceeded anyway.
I'm not saying it wasn't a noble thing to do, but it was stupid and they knew better. So now they are just paying off the fine and I don't want my money to go straight to the publishers and lawyer fees.
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Them allowing unlimited book checkouts during covid in defiance of copyright law, resulting in them getting sued and losing bad in court. They knew it was going to get them in trouble and proceeded anyway.
I'm not saying it wasn't a noble thing to do, but it was stupid and they knew better. So now they are just paying off the fine and I don't want my money to go straight to the publishers and lawyer fees.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I missed this somehow. Donated to them repeatedly because of the wayback machine, which they created. TY for the deets!
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Nice reminder!
For which kind of projects do you give?
What are the core apps, the most important softwares / teams you want to support?For me, I think that Wikipedia, f-droid and davx5 are a bit the core of the core of my value and workflow.
What about you guys?
Currently I donate to GNOME and The European Correspondent every month.
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I've donated a small amount to Wikipedia before, but blooming heck do they hound you after for follow up donations.
I'm having a really hard time donating to wikipedia now that I've learned they are actually doing pretty well and don't need donations as urgently as their invasive banners say.
Now, of course their main revenue stream is donations (not only, I don't have the numbers but they sell commercial access to big tech through a for-profit company, Wikimedia Enterprise). But the whole guilt tripping strategy they've been using for a decade without actually needing it is disgusting.
I strongly recommend watching this 10min, sourced video on the topic from fern.
I'd rather donate to non profits that actually need it and yet don't resort to these emotionally manipulating campaigns.
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Them allowing unlimited book checkouts during covid in defiance of copyright law, resulting in them getting sued and losing bad in court. They knew it was going to get them in trouble and proceeded anyway.
I'm not saying it wasn't a noble thing to do, but it was stupid and they knew better. So now they are just paying off the fine and I don't want my money to go straight to the publishers and lawyer fees.
Some things are worth paying the fine for.
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I'm having a really hard time donating to wikipedia now that I've learned they are actually doing pretty well and don't need donations as urgently as their invasive banners say.
Now, of course their main revenue stream is donations (not only, I don't have the numbers but they sell commercial access to big tech through a for-profit company, Wikimedia Enterprise). But the whole guilt tripping strategy they've been using for a decade without actually needing it is disgusting.
I strongly recommend watching this 10min, sourced video on the topic from fern.
I'd rather donate to non profits that actually need it and yet don't resort to these emotionally manipulating campaigns.
We need some sort of fediverse Wikipedia. No one entity should control such an expansive book of knowledge.
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We need some sort of fediverse Wikipedia. No one entity should control such an expansive book of knowledge.
Luckily, they don't own any of Wikipedia's content, and it's all downloadable at anytime by anyone wanting to create a mirror.
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We need some sort of fediverse Wikipedia. No one entity should control such an expansive book of knowledge.
There are already lots of Wiki sites that are basically the same thing.
