Donations

FLOSS communities depend on donations. Even a small donation of five euros a month can help a FLOSS contributor. If you use free software, support it with a small donation. Show that you care. Visualize your donations, and tell everyone that you donate. Make it normal. It should be at least as normal as paying big tech companies for stealing your data. People will never stop writing code because writing code is really fun. You know, it will always be, at the very least, a hobby. And I will say, on my phone […] and on my computer, the apps that I use, the very best ones are the ones that were made by people in their free time, for a hobby. The ones that are made by companies, that I have to use because of whatever reason, I feel like I have a hostile relationship with these apps. They’re always trying to get me to buy stuff or advertise to me or coerce me into doing some kind of engagement metric that they’ve decided they care about. But, whenever I use an app that was made by someone…