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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[–] lime@feddit.nu 115 points 3 days ago (3 children)

tl;dr: it uses stripe

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago

Support for other providers is coming. Bandwagon is in a similar situation. The overall goal is to support a multitude of options, so that no one payment solution has a monopoly.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What is Stripe?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 3 days ago

The company that's involved with the payment disputes between Steam, MasterCard, banks, 18+ games and Collective Shout. Stripe is the one handling payments between Steam and MasterCard. It got blamed, blamed others in return and suddenly is known to a lot more people but not in a good way.

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Payment provider. Stripe.com

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

tbf not sure if anything the EU makes can compete with it

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Klarna is Swedish.

Nasty company though.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Klarna is like a payment layer on top of a payment processor, different things, even they recommend stripe:

https://docs.klarna.com/

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago

Ah. My mistake then.

They are ubiquitous here, even when paying by card it goes through klarna.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago

Adyen? That's a Dutch payment service provider