this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess the postage was more expensive than the donation.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, a letter to the USA surprisingly would only cost me 1,10 Euro. So this is less than the donated sum, but it's still a bit weird to only send 5 Euro with that.

[–] Dmian@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A donation is a donation. I donate a couple bucks a month to Wikipedia, and they kiss the earth I step on. XDDD

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, people are free to donate as they like, I am just pointing out that more than 1/6 of the donation goes to the post service.

[–] Dmian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I get it. It’s the same reason why I’m paying for the VAT of my Wikipedia donation. If they have to discount the VAT from my meager contribution, those poor lads will be left with pennies… :P

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This smells like German to me...

[–] dEVbiKub@feddit.nu 2 points 2 years ago

Either that, or country within EU where cash is seldomly used and the person thought "wtf do I do with this..."

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago

What, no cutout letters from magazine and newspapers? Clearly an Amateur.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The fact that signal does not accept cryptocurrency donations in their own Mobile coin is crazy.

Especially, they also don't accept Monero which they copied for their own pump and dump crypto, acknowledging it's the superior currency out there that fits their mission perfectly.

https://signal.org/donate/#cryptocurrency

And on the mobile app the donation nag screen only accepts standard payments, not crypto payments.