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CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

submitted 23 hours ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] hansemilla@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 21 hours ago

Why not GNU Taler?

[-] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago

Actually, there's a pretty decent possibility of this happening! Ben from Bandwagon is currently looking into this for the underlying Emissary platform. If it proves easy enough to integrate, there's literally no reason not to.

Proving it in one project might see adoption across similar efforts.