Not as much as I should be tbh.

I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.

Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲

I donate 25€ per month to Droidian. It uses the Android kernel to run a Debian based Linux distro on phones.

Though I would rather see mainline Linux on phones succeed, I believe this could be the best alternative to iOS / Android (OS) until that happens.

When one of my “cloud” devices / services becomes “enshittified”, I’ll donate what the provide is asking to a related open source self-hosted project.

I also “buy” the major update for whatever software I use regularly.

1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.

Nothing because I literally have no money

Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.

I donate 100€ to KDE every year. I consider it my “windows license”, since it was the DE that allowed me to escape from windows 7 years ago.

Don’t have anything recurring. More like random $10-20 thrown here and there. It’d probably be more often if it was all more integrated/streamlined. Pretty much the hyped up Flathub payments feature someday. I’d do that more often than patreon/opencollective/etc. I’ve had a patreon sub for a few projects over the years

I started to donate once a year to my Linux os and apps I like. I also need to set up a small monthly for apps I like. If we don’t show support when we can we will lose the some great projects.

It’s not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run

I agree completely with this. I only donate a token amount of ~2 EUR per year to some projects: it won’t do anything by itself, yet still, if everyone did the same, it would be really impactful.

For a few projects that are most important to me, I donate up to ~15 EUR per month. It’s both a lot of money, and also not a lot at the same time. By itself, it still has a tiny impact, but it is a decent monthly expense, especially when donating to a few projects.

To me it really highlights that we can’t help fund anything by ourselves. After donating some amount yourself, the next best thing you can do is encourage other people to donate too!

There’s a really cool project called Snowdrift that tries to harness that dynamic. They came up with a concept called “crowdmatching”, where everyone’s donation is linked to the number of people donating to the project (up to a cap).

Although progress on that project is quite slow, I really hope to see it succeed some day, as I think it really thoughtfully and neatly manages to coordinate people to band together to fund projects, and make a real difference as a group.

When ive used a project for a while and i have extra cash I usually do a 20$ donation. Ive been low on money last year so I only donated to a few of the projects, listenbrainz and Lemmy.

Ideally I want to donate a small amount yearly to all the projects I use.

One time donations of $5 only, I am poor

I donate 5 to 10 aud every 6 months or so for connect for lemmy since i use it every day

Yearly budget of $200 for any apps I constantly use. I split the amount between the apps. Donate more if I have extra funds.