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Spirit was killed by illegal predatory pricing!! There's no reason the corporate criminals who do this stuff would go easy on competition run by different people. The answer is ant…

Price discrimination at all is not the same as individualized prices . And really the issue conflates two things: 1, privacy and surveillance pricing ; 2, AI profit-maximizing. Eve…

This is just software folks trying to speculate about economics and not finding the right sources to make sense of things. The KEY distinction between software and house is abundan…

* It is easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.* - Dan Ariely

Not sure what you mean by "open place", we (too messily right now) are tracking stuff at https://gitlab.com/groups/snowdrift/-/issues and there's a needs-updating semi-outdated pag…

You are thinking of tip4commit. Gittip later became Gratipay and then closed (but the fork at Liberapay still exists). Gittip never collected contributions for people who didn't fi…

No easy answers. We're trying to address that at Snowdrift.coop but are ourselves struggling volunteers not getting fully launched still (but not giving up, still at it). Most effo…

> We've been around since 2014 (before Patreon!) Patreon was announced in 2013 I think. But Snowdrift.coop still was started first, as the first rough prototype proposal was up onl…

If we didn't have our own issues with zero-funding and all-volunteer efforts, we'd have gotten Snowdrift.coop launched by now (we're still working on it, hope to show some real pub…