I would donate to (and have donated to some of) the following:
- Vaultwarden
- Jellyfin
- Invidious project and yewtu.be instance
- Shynet
- Riseup VPN
- Photoview
- Jerboa
Probably 100% Mozilla.
The free and open web is so in danger right now.
I wouldn’t donate to a nonprofit that pays 5 mil a year to their CEO, it sounds to me they have the money but waste it on the wrong things.
They have a very long history of mismanaging money and wasting it on worthless projects, not to mention multi-million dollar executive salaries while laying off hundreds of workers and many other controversies.
Firefox is the only reason I don’t want that useless walking corpse to die for good. And I can’t even support it, since it belongs to the corporation rather than the foundation.
They have a very long history of mismanaging money and wasting it on worthless projects, not to mention multi-million dollar executive salaries while laying off hundreds of workers and many other controversies.
I don’t think you will find an organisation of that scale that doesn’t have salaries for execs like this, You might not like it but that is an unavoidable reality, you can’t run a business based of wishful thinking.
Some projects got dumped but at least they are taking risk and making new projects (which got us Rust, stack overlow survey favorite language from 2016 - 2023).
1k to NixOS, (my perfect distro)
500 to NewPipe (dont know what I would do without them)
500 to Bitwarden (for hosting my passwords),
500 to XFCE (for the Wayland transition),
500 to Neovim (my text editor of choice),
500 for Aurora Store (essential for all Custom ROM users, to support them in these difficult times),
500 for the core Lemmy project,
500 for my instance’s maintainers,
and last, but definitely not least:
500 for The Everything Project: A project which aims to provide a unified way to access various platforms and services including but not limited to Lemmy and other Fediverse platforms, Reddit, and more. (no, I’m not a contributor or maintainer, but if you want to be, or just want to find out more: https://github.com/everything-gripe )
Godot!
uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don’t take donations. So my list would roughly contain:
- Organic Maps
- Thunderbird
- Internet Archive
- Codeberg
I’d like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it’s not possible to only support Firefox development.
