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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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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 29 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

It also helps that Canada has a non-fee option that only has the downside of being traceable.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 11 points 18 hours ago

That's really nicely done, good work!

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