tl;dr: it uses stripe

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.

From their website

From people you know

CrowdBucks is created by individual people you know, and not a large face-less corporation

And yet, there are no people shown on the website. How do I do know if I know these people?

How does this compare to Liberapay? It's already opensource and quite good.

I've said it before, I think there's money in a service that crowd funds open source donations.

I use so much FOSS that making sure they all get some money is a real first world problem. If I can only give £10 that month what do I do? Rotate who gets the tenner? Give everyone £.20? Then you have to figure out how each service wants funding and organise that.

Instead I could go to FOSSfund select all the software I use and donate £x. That money gets divvyed up and stored with other people's donations until a threshold is reached.

When enough money is accrued the service makes a substantial donation. The FOSSfund itself is funded through interest gained while holding donations.

Of course I am a naive user that wants good things to exist and has no idea the difficulties in making them happen. Brb, off to vibecode a payment system. I forsee no problems. I will not be taking questions or feedback at this time.

Just curious: would any of this be able to circumvent or prevent this unspeakable crime:

Gofundme cancels accounts of Palestinians: https://mastodon.social/@daliamohisen/115060399174567486

Sweet so now we have OpenCollective, Librepay, and now CrowdBucks. All kind of filling different roles it seems. On going orgnization funding (with transparency as a goal), patronige of a project/group you support (with ease as a goal), and now fundraising (which is generally a limited time activity).

Am I comparing them all pretty well here? Or is there anythjng im missing?

similar to Kickstarter or Patreon.

There's a fedicon?!

oh wow, I thought the project died

"Payment system" makes it sound like a replacement for PayPal or Stripe.

But it's really a replacement for ko-fi or buy me a coffee.

I want to see how they handle PCI data but this seems promising.

Wouldn't this kind of projects benefit from implementing GNU Taler? Even if only a tiny fraction of people do use it, if there are reference implementation that all such funding platform can rely on, it could make the network grow quite fast.

Does it support Monero and the like?

This is really cool, I could see this being used for mutual aid in the fediverse, as well as to give artists self hosted alternatives to patreon or kofi.