CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
from deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 20 Aug 07:16
https://lemmy.ml/post/34942205

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 on 20 Aug 10:44 next collapse

“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 on 20 Aug 11:00 collapse

It uses stripe

geolaw@lemmygrad.ml on 22 Aug 11:50 collapse

Does that mean Stripe takes a cut?

utopiah@lemmy.ml on 21 Aug 12:14 collapse

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.