I’m making a quick list to be sure to support projects that have a positive impact on my digital life, at the crossroads of selfhosting and privacy.
Selfhosting is currently more of a hobby (fiddling, note-taking and media serving), and looking at my Portainer stack right now, I’m thinking of PiHole, Jellyfin, Homarr and Homepage.
Some projects like FileBrowser, PiGallery2 and Audiobookshelf don’t seem to have a way to contribute financially.
Any well-know project that might be in near-critical condition/need of support? Which projects are you planning to donate to?
Donating?
Signal
The last couple of years I have been donating to Gluetun.
The dev is very responsive to feature requests, and I don’t know how I would get along without it now.
wish i could afford to if i had the money debian, openwrt and pterodactyl would be the main ones
use them the mostSignal
Trilium Notes!
Gotten so much use out of immich this year, I started sponsoring monthly
Just donated to OctoPrint! Use it all the time and it’s been rock solid for years!
JellyFin is a great one. They’re needing the support due to a lack of devs.
Immich and Planka (if I can find a way)
FreeBSD & GrapheneOS
OctoPrint .
A 3D printer without OctoPrint is possible, but useless.Not a software project, but eff.org. For software, signal.org.
I’ve also just subscribed to simplelogin premium and i consider it a pseudo donation too since it does have a huge impact on my email management.
Debian.
The “OG” of linux distros that is still around and very active now after ~30 years, but most of all, its run entirely by the community. Project leaders are elected by contributors, there is no company backing them and no company influencing the project.
Kinda unrelated but it’s amazing how we can come together as a community and make things together in a big agreement to ditch relying on companies.