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Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by nspkr »

class4behavior wrote: post #13
NicoJuicy wrote: post #2

Since Facebook fan subscriptions recently released. Another multinational corporation tries to claim 30% on the shoulders of developers/content creators/... I would rather see a "true" non-profit appear and claim this space. I also trust European non-profits more than American ones. The platform (Liberapay) lives on donations, supports different currencies, multiple languages, has multiple integrations ( Github, Gitl…

Well, Liberapay is for donations only, hence it is not a true alternative to Patreon and such. Also, you still have to pay the processing fees which, they say, should be below 5% on average. Nonetheless, it is pretty well-made and needed, especially since they care about internationalization.

I don't see any reason why Liberapay couldn't deploy a recurring donation system like Patreon's.

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by class4behavior »

worble wrote: post #14

This seems really great, I was thinking of doing something like this recently as well, although I was thinking more along lines of: - I have a set amount of money I wish to give each month (say £200) - Given I have setup x amount of people I wish to donate to, the system will automatically spread my money evenly amongst the creators, or using a given weighting provided - I'll be able to add any new creators to this l…

I dunno. This may help donators manage their money better but receivers would be discouraged from using that platform since such a system would dissuade sponsors from focusing on a few projects and providing a stable income to projects.

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by bandedetrappees »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #17
worble wrote: post #14

This seems really great, I was thinking of doing something like this recently as well, although I was thinking more along lines of: - I have a set amount of money I wish to give each month (say £200) - Given I have setup x amount of people I wish to donate to, the system will automatically spread my money evenly amongst the creators, or using a given weighting provided - I'll be able to add any new creators to this l…

I hate to be the blockchain guy, but this sounds like something you could look at Ethereum or similar to provide. I'd consider using crypto if this use case existed.

This is exactly what the Basic Attention Token, linked to the Brave browser is supposed to do. You can even spread the donations based on the time spent on each website/videos. You should check it out.

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by gilrain »

ancorevard wrote: post #7

More important than the 0% commission is how open this platform will actually be, or will it also engage in politics and police certain speech as they see fit?

Hopefully they will police hate speech and other forms of speech which are rightly illegal due to their inherent intention to infringe on other people’s rights, yes.

You can use a hateful platform like Hatreon if you wish to spread those views. Because your freedom of speech isn’t being trampled on, it’s just that civilized people don’t want you junking up their property.

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by sadris »

worble wrote: post #14

This seems really great, I was thinking of doing something like this recently as well, although I was thinking more along lines of: - I have a set amount of money I wish to give each month (say £200) - Given I have setup x amount of people I wish to donate to, the system will automatically spread my money evenly amongst the creators, or using a given weighting provided - I'll be able to add any new creators to this l…

Flattr did this. It may still. It got bought a few years ago.

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by ValentineC »

worble wrote: post #14

This seems really great, I was thinking of doing something like this recently as well, although I was thinking more along lines of: - I have a set amount of money I wish to give each month (say £200) - Given I have setup x amount of people I wish to donate to, the system will automatically spread my money evenly amongst the creators, or using a given weighting provided - I'll be able to add any new creators to this l…

This sounds like Flattr: https://flattr.com

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by gsnedders »

hkai wrote: post #9
NicoJuicy wrote: post #2

Since Facebook fan subscriptions recently released. Another multinational corporation tries to claim 30% on the shoulders of developers/content creators/... I would rather see a "true" non-profit appear and claim this space. I also trust European non-profits more than American ones. The platform (Liberapay) lives on donations, supports different currencies, multiple languages, has multiple integrations ( Github, Gitl…

The question is not the money, the question is freedom of speech. A platform taking a commission is no big deal compared to the fact that it is allowed to determine what opinions are allowed and what aren't.

Unfortunately, as long as they're relying on Stripe and PayPal there are 1imitations to what is and isn't allowed: there are plenty of things that US payment processors make hard to deal with.

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by pjc50 »

hkai wrote: post #9
NicoJuicy wrote: post #2

Since Facebook fan subscriptions recently released. Another multinational corporation tries to claim 30% on the shoulders of developers/content creators/... I would rather see a "true" non-profit appear and claim this space. I also trust European non-profits more than American ones. The platform (Liberapay) lives on donations, supports different currencies, multiple languages, has multiple integrations ( Github, Gitl…

The question is not the money, the question is freedom of speech. A platform taking a commission is no big deal compared to the fact that it is allowed to determine what opinions are allowed and what aren't.

The platform has to determine what it's funding, because it's dependent on (a) local law (b) payment processors (c) the goodwill of the rest of its customers.

Nobody's going to help someone fund their child-porn-to-Iran scheme, and nor should they.

Re: Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

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Post by pjc50 »

nspkr wrote: post #21
class4behavior wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, Liberapay is for donations only, hence it is not a true alternative to Patreon and such. Also, you still have to pay the processing fees which, they say, should be below 5% on average. Nonetheless, it is pretty well-made and needed, especially since they care about internationalization.

I don't see any reason why Liberapay couldn't deploy a recurring donation system like Patreon's.

They do. It's in the title of the article.
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