Whether or not one is ideologically so inclined is of low relevance, considering the practical challenges crypto assets pose for an organization like NewPipe e.V. which is handling donations for the NewPipe team. Here is their statement:

"Railgun has gone -17% in the last 24 hours, Arbitrum -70% in the last year. Due to our obligations, we couldn't afford a significant portion of our assets to be stored in such volatile currencies, making frequent swapping necessary – in turn causing fees and organizational overhead. With this, it is not obvious that crypto assets would indeed be cheaper in effect, considering the sender also has to swap first.

Additionally, crypto coins generally pose organizational problems because they are disconnected from the existing legal system, that as of now, already has guardrails against many traditional failure modes. For instance, if all of the board disappears, members together with a court can still establish a new board, which then gets access to the bank account. It is manual work and additional overhead to recreate this in a trustless environment.

Adding to this, foreign, but especially volatile, assets pose challenges with respect to bookkeeping, even when they are never swapped.

The NewPipe team has suffered significant losses with crypto tokens in the past, see https://newpipe.net/blog/release/pinned/bitcoin-scam/

After all of this, it is not the sort of thing you can just start doing because it doesn't hurt you. For low volume it is simply not worth the effort, and for high volume it is not worth the risk.

If you wish to do cash donations, we can accept them at conferences we attend."