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An application that would make donating to FOSS projects, especially GPL-licensed works (or at least: those not trying to cater to corporations) in desperate need of support, effortless. In that: a periodic budget can be determined, time spent actively using applications is tracked, an application's userbase is taken into consideration (as their cumulative income may eat too much into budgets: possibly better spent supporting smaller projects), and personal preference can be given (including an option to filter license types); as to rank the applications based on perceived value, and fraction the budget accordingly.
I would be happy to support projects that I actively, or to a lesser degree, rely on. But the process of taking all steps required to support a project is simply too manual, and outright unmanageable, when trying to take into account all system components. I really want the incentives to shift from MIT to GPL, so that maintainers don't effectively end up being controlled by corporate paychecks; and are rather supported by individual end users. This should in theory make FOSS more resilient to any future restrictions to source access, which could hamper the long-term parity of forks, seeking to strip anti-features.
Devs should provide some info for donating directly in-app (something like this example below, and definitely give a few choices not paypal only. For me, whenever there is available buymeacoffee (in app I frequently use), I make donation with cc.
We have Monero and Bitcoin, both are Free Software and public infrastructure that have been running for over a decade with little to no issues at all. I have donated myself to many projects over the last 4 years using these methods.
But FOSS advocates and leftists hate money so much they prefer donate through centralized, data-mining, corporate-owned, KYC-ridden, transaction-censoring payment processor that freezes funds on a whim like PayPal, GitHub or Patreon using state issued currency that funds wars like petrodollar is...