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

submitted 1 year ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

"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.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

It uses stripe

[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Does it support Monero and the like?

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025

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