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So it looks like the idea is it goes through your GitHub dependencies, and splits your donation up among them.

That’s a pretty neat idea.

I wonder if it would be possible or even desirable to try and get some automatic measure of “how much” you depend on a given project, to weigh the split. Probably that would be really difficult to capture. Anyway the current idea is already pretty cool.

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Not automatic, but it already supports a measure of "how much" you depend on a project: boosting. You can boost dependencies up or down by up to a factor of 20 (e^3).

The formula is explained in https://thanks.dev/static/how.

I've been working on this idea (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/06/01/idea-supply-chain-moneti...) recently as part of https://dmd.tanna.dev where you can get a meaningful idea of how much your projects use different dependencies, such that you'd be able to feed in a more meaningful weighting of "how much I use that dependency"

Regarding the post generally, using the problem of “how should I re-distribute my donations” to help solve the problem of “am I actually willing to be part of your software supply chain or am I just a hobbyist project, good luck using my code” seems like a nice way of hitting two birds with one stone.

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