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)
  • NGnius@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I just sat down to do my annual donations, so I’ve got the list ready to go:

    • local food bank
    • local safe injection site
    • Signal
    • KDE
    • OpenMedia (closest thing to EFF in Canada)

    A few places I couldn’t afford to donate to this year, in case anyone needs more ideas:

    • archive.org
    • EFF
    • miscellaneous software projects I’m using (mostly Steam Deck plugins because I’m in that community a lot)
    • Gnome

    I also give a bit to Tor and The Beaverton monthly.