CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse

A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.

https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/

CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse

A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.

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@news at first I was excited, but this is not a "payment layer" it's just another wrapper arount stripe... It's technically the same as @Liberapay 🤷🏽‍♂️ @reiver

@kleisli @news @Liberapay

There is of course nothing wrong with LibraPay. And, AFAIK, there are good people behind it

But, CrowdBucks is Fediverse-native. Your ID on CrowdBucks is your Fediverse ID. You login with your existing Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, PeerTube, etc account. It (in a coming release) will speak more ActivityPub, and acts as Fediverse client software. Etc

AFAIK, LibraPay doesn't do any of that

Stripe is supported for the MVP. More payment processors will be added later

@reiver maybe I have too ambitionated visions, but I think the fediverse should also have a distributed payment system that doesn't depend on stripe/paypal resp. in the end again on google, apple, visa or mastarcard... I know, most fediverse people don't like crypto, but they provide working decentralised payment systems. @news @Liberapay

@kleisli @news @Liberapay

I agree with the goal of distributed payment system.

That is part of the long term vision.

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