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What do you donate to? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Coming up to Christmas I generally make some small donations. Some of these I ask for as Christmas gifts because I'm old and basically have very basic wants and needs so I'm hard to buy for.

Curious to hear if / what others do.

I've expanded my annual list to include:

Wikipedia
Lemmy.world (my home instance)
Mozilla (I'm not happy with how they spend their money necessarily but I'm very thankful to have Firefox)
Signal messenger
A few Ukrainian things (u24.gov.ua is the official site if this is your thing but there's a great lady on Reddit I give to occasionally too)
The guardian (I read so many articles from there linked on here that I feel like I should and I really appreciate the lack of paywall and easy cookie rejection but never use the site logged in)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I donate my time more than my money. Scouts and school fundraisers soak up way too many hours.

My biggest ongoing financial donation is the pile of money I put into Kiva years ago, which is slowly being depleted each time they take a cut as an administrative fee. I plan to let the balance wind down and not add more money in the future. Kiva doesn't operate quite the way it is advertised, and from what I have read their C-suite is also overpaid.

I also donate a few dollars each month to a Lemmy mobile app.

I've been meaning to donate to KEXP radio in Seattle. I'll go do that right now while I'm thinking about it.