There is no product to upsell here and no attention to resell. The whole argument of this project is that the infrastructure of public life should not be paid for by auctioning what people look at. That leaves one honest option: people who think this should exist paying for it directly.
Contributions go to the unglamorous parts, the identity layer, federation, local model support, and the hours it takes to keep a prototype this size moving. Nothing buys influence over the architecture, and no contributor gets a governance seat. If that sounds like a bad deal, it is the same deal the Constitution offers: structure first, trust second.
If code, criticism or testing is easier to give than money, that is genuinely worth more. File what breaks.
Proof of personhood hardening, peer discovery, endorsement accountability. The layer that makes small communities reachable without a platform in the middle.
Keeping the full cognitive stack usable on hardware people already own, so participation never depends on a data center or a per-token bill.
Code signing and notarization for macOS and Windows, so the first launch does not require a terminal command to clear a quarantine flag.
Paying researchers to attack the survival calculus, the amygdala gates and the no-rumination guarantee, and to publish what they find.
Verify these addresses against the ones published in the repository before sending anything. That habit is worth more than any single contribution, and it is the same skepticism the rest of this system is built on.
Lowest friction for anyone already holding crypto. Mainnet only, please, and send a test amount first if the sum is meaningful to you.
0xeEa9380A25158447306Cd5bd3f9c55e8a756B2BE
A bech32 address, so most wallets will quote low fees. Confirmation is slower than the others; nothing here is time sensitive.
bc1qpew3xme9aquxf4u5l0ve73jreftu0w80qcxpc9
For anyone who would rather not touch crypto. A processor is involved, so this is the least private option, and it works nearly everywhere.
The fastest option from a phone if you already have the app. Same caveat as PayPal: a processor sits in the middle and sees the transaction.
Contributions are gifts to an independent open source project, not tax-deductible charitable donations, and they buy no product, license, warranty or equity. Crypto transfers are irreversible; check the address twice.
Install it on your own machine, keep what it remembers, and report where it fails. Real usage on unfamiliar hardware is the scarcest resource this project has.
Download a release →Test whether this architecture produces conscience or a better dressed compliance. The design documents are public and laid out plainly enough to be wrong.
File the hard question →Apache-2.0, inbound equals outbound. Build for clusters, and take nothing in payment for attention.
Read the source →Send the letter to one person who works on civic infrastructure, safety, or policy. The argument needs adversaries as much as allies.
Read the open letter →