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Help with your donation, toenable pinning posts in groups.

What it's about

We are now launching our first crowdfunding campaign for all users of ocelot.social networks and for anyone interested in promoting independent social networks.

We are starting with a feature that ensures that important information remains more visible in groups.

Pinning posts in groups

The goal is to allow group administrators to pin posts to the top of their group's post list, so that members can see these announcements immediately. This feature already exists for the general post list. To make it available for groups, this feature needs to be significantly expanded and programmatic tests need to be added for quality assurance.

This is what a pinned post on a group page could soon look like (orange frame and banner).

Why a crowdfunding?

busFaktor() e.V., the organization behind the free open-source software ocelot.social, is a non-profit. Since it has no commercial interests, the further development of the software is financed solely through volunteer work, donations, membership fees, and contracts from the operators of ocelot.social networks to freelance developers. This includes donations from you.

Donations

We welcome your donation to:

busFaktor() e.V. IBAN: DE81 5003 1000 1084 5340 01 BIC: TRODDEF1 Triodos Bank N.V., Germany

Location: 86179 Augsburg, Germany

For the purpose of use, see below.

Notes on the purpose of use

Please be sure to include "Donation" and your email address in the purpose of use so that we can contact you. The "@" symbol is not normally possible in bank transfers, so please write it as "at", with a space before and after it and without quotation marks.

Example: "Donation from eva.muster at domain.de for crowdfunding"

In Germany, donations under €300 are tax-deductible without a certificate. In other cases, we will be happy to issue a donation receipt upon request.

We welcome recurring donations to the project. ❤️ There are also numerous ways you can get involved.