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And if so what are some worthy ones? I know i've given to VLC, and one of the Firefox forks(can't remember which). I gave some money to Soulseek this month since ive been using that forever.
Soulseek is an Israeli guy, just so everyone knows. No idea on his politics but the odds aren't great.
It's also proprietary so not an open source project at all.
If he were antizionist you would hear about how people are quitting soulseek because of antisemitism.
lol oops, well i won't do that again. it does give you the ability to jump the download queue for a month but i rarely need that anymore. At least otherwise it's just free software, doesn't have ads for ICE like on Spotify.
The default soulseek client is proprietary. The network AFAIK is also proprietary. No reasoning is provided for this, so assume the worst.
You'll have to use nicotine+ as a free software client.
ah i see. the default Soulseek client is free. ive been using Soulseek for literally 20+ years, it'll be ok.
The default soulseek client is shared free of charge, it is proprietary however. The entire network is also proprietary and centralized.
The distinction is whether it respects the 4 criteria or not.
I started donating to KDE and Lemmy last week
Openstreetmap
You can also donate dev time or help with issue backlogs if you don't have the money. If you know what you're doing, or have something useful to contribute (even just fixing typos, doing translations, or updating documentation) that time spent can be just as valuable as a financial contribution.
I think the last one I gave money to was Kimai, and I've helped write some API tooling for several other management tools that I use.
I'm arguably an open source project
Show me your insides?
Alright but you'd better put them back
Are you accepting pull requests?
SPI is the nonprofit tied to Debian. It also gives funding to a lot of other projects.
https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/
FSF is the nonprofit tied to GNU, which provides most of the base system software for Linux Desktops.
EFF is a nonprofit that teaches people about internet privacy and provides people with pro-bono legal services. In the past, they have given lawyers to people in filesharing-related court cases.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/power-your-donation-week