This might be a somewhat unusual post, but I’ve made a pledge to myself to financially support Fediverse creators whose content I enjoy and I’d like to make an attempt to inspire others to do the same.
I want to make it very clear that the amount you donate does not matter! It’s not a competition.
I make small donations (~1-5$/mo) to some of my favourites because I plan on supporting them indefinitely which is usually better than one-time donations. This unfortunately also means that it will require multiple people to work well, but if we can build a reputation for the Fediverse as a place where people are likely to support your work then it would naturally become more appealing to post here.
I use Liberapay whenever I can because it lets me choose how much I want to donate and how frequent which makes this easy to manage.
You can of course experiment with the conditions (e.g: type of creators), the donation amount or donation frequency. Use what works for you, and again, what matters is that you support someone, not the amount!


I give a few dollars to support PieFed development every month because I truly like it and use it. It’s not much, but I’m sure every little bit helps. I also give to my main home server to help offset operating costs. I use the Mastodon server, I used the Lemmy server for good while, and then when PieFed released, I asked, and the person who runs it deployed a PieFed instance. Again, it’s not much, but if everyone gave a little, it would add up!