GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. Many other open source projects take donations from anyone in a similar way.
Server sponsorships for our update mirrors and other servers is a separate thing to reduce our costs so we can spend money paying developers instead of paying for servers. Many other Linux distributions have hundreds of sponsored mirrors and other servers.
What do you think we should do differently about how we take donations and server sponsorships?
GrapheneOS
npub1kw…se0nj
2026-06-29 18:23:54 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…jx2p
Author Public Key
npub1kwarc5z9lwhen05uknd2nuwhhthd4ws0cku3t9j3rchm0fcd6luslse0njPublished at
2026-06-29 18:23:54 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "d505e5fd6d969766962fe5df02c5f88e7867a575a154e31ba68daf3ef57bce72",
"pubkey": "b3ba3c5045fbaf99be9cb4daa9f1d7baeedaba0fc5b91596511e2fb7a70dd7f9",
"created_at": 1782757434,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"5cd1c14ada8dde707da351df4feb74c4bfaa6c5c30306211ef475882c916fa45",
"",
"reply",
"b3ba3c5045fbaf99be9cb4daa9f1d7baeedaba0fc5b91596511e2fb7a70dd7f9"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116834791257480763",
"web"
],
[
"e",
"f4ce1f56df2bd1cda6b4ca785990969401182f2077b3838e89671040c9fd07a1",
"",
"root",
"e39fd83e67e780de854ef3489e7ca22db6ca95dfe5a8aa4d85bd66a26fbe4a6d"
],
[
"p",
"b3ba3c5045fbaf99be9cb4daa9f1d7baeedaba0fc5b91596511e2fb7a70dd7f9"
],
[
"p",
"e39fd83e67e780de854ef3489e7ca22db6ca95dfe5a8aa4d85bd66a26fbe4a6d"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://grapheneos.social/users/GrapheneOS/statuses/116834791257480763",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://grapheneos.social/users/GrapheneOS/statuses/116834791257480763",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. Many other open source projects take donations from anyone in a similar way.\n\nServer sponsorships for our update mirrors and other servers is a separate thing to reduce our costs so we can spend money paying developers instead of paying for servers. Many other Linux distributions have hundreds of sponsored mirrors and other servers.\n\nWhat do you think we should do differently about how we take donations and server sponsorships?",
"sig": "2ea17849be393a8274f43dc43385b6059b01bbfc7f1e01bf689ebc984324d626c28827a0896c2933135347d9224b7cd347e6c0266130aa32015a2e0ff95ed247"
}