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Many open social platforms and community-run services still lack practical ways to support financial sustainability while remaining aligned with decentralisation, openness, and user privacy. Feditaler is intended to address that gap through a reusable software layer that links GNU Taler payment flows to selected platform-side actions in a way that is technically realistic and suitable for self-hosted or community-operated environments.

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Feditaler is designed to sit between a selected Fediverse platform and GNU Taler services. On the platform side, it connects to the user interface, administrator controls, and relevant local platform actions. On the payment side, it interacts with GNU Taler components such as the merchant backend and wallet flow. The middleware handles payment state, local action triggering, and the logic needed to translate a confirmed payment into a controlled platform-side effect.

In simple terms, the intended model is:

Fediverse platform -> Feditaler integration layer -> GNU Taler services

This allows privacy-preserving payment functionality to be introduced without requiring a new social platform or a proprietary payment environment.

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Feditaler is intended as an open source project with a GitHub repository soon to be available, the project says on its platform.

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Feditaler is developed by Obsidian Innovation Institute – Associação, a non-profit RTD and stakeholder association active in open digital systems, privacy and security, interoperable platform-oriented software, and practical software components for public-interest and innovation-oriented use with HQ in Portugal.