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CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
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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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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Does it support Monero and the like?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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 month ago (1 children)

It uses stripe

[–] geolaw@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Does that mean Stripe takes a cut?

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month 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.