GivingTuesday

December 3, 2024 is #GivingTuesday, one day during the holiday season for contributing to non-profits as “an expression of mutuality, solidarity, and reciprocity.” For those of us who benefit from the hard work of volunteers and non-profits on the Fediverse, it’s a great day to give back and support their work.

Donating to the server that your account is on is always a great choice, but there are plenty of other organizations working to support the Fediverse. This is a starter list of possible places to apply your donations; please comment with suggestions for orgs or people to donate to (including your own or yourself!).

Non-profit organizations

• IFTAS – The Federated Trust and Safety organization, building tools and community for a safer and more resilient fediverse
• Nivenly Foundation – Building software and services on the Fediverse.
• W3C – The standards organization that manages ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0.
• Alquimidia – Supporting Fediverse use in Brazil.
• Fediverse Foundation – Instances and advocacy in Austria.

Software developers

• Mastodon – Donations to Mastodon help build this crucial engine that powers the social web.
• Pixelfed – Pixelfed makes some of the most amazing software on the Fediverse.
• Lemmy – Free link-sharing and discussion software on the Fediverse.
• Misskey – Support development of this essential server.
• Peertube – Video on the Fediverse!
• Pleroma – Low resources, high features.
• Bookwyrm – The federated book review server.
• Elk – The lovely Mastodon Web client.

Individuals

• a – doing awesome work on standards for ActivityPub
• AreOh – building software and services for security and mutual support
• Emelia Smith – working hard on trust and safety

Fediverse-adjacent

• Small Tech Foundation – Working on distributed personal technology
• Mozilla Foundation – The non-profit that supports Firefox creation and fights for the open web
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – “The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.”
• Spritely Institute – Secure distributed computing by the editors of ActivityPub
• Software Freedom Conservancy – Longtime federation supporters and advocates for software freedom.

Finally, donating to the Social Web Foundation is easy and tax-deductible. Your donation supports our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.