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Unless you call it something cool, like "Tor".
Tor is a security tool that might be used for evil purposes. It's not a gun, Tor is not developed so that pedophiles can share child porn.
People contribute to lots of well-intentioned took that contribute some kind of indirectly to evil things.
Recurring payment, so many platforms now... https://maecen.com/ https://www.tipeee.com/ https://patreon.com/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ https://flattr.com/ https://d.rip/ What other platform to host a profile and raise money monthly do you know ?
It includes all you listed and much more.
It's on the wiki of a still-in-progress platform that actually plans a novel and potentially better model than all the other things, at least in terms of funding public goods without paywalls (many of these sites are paywall-focused, freemium projects with some public, some exclusive publications).
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.
- the front page of Hatreon
(good riddance to bad rubbish IMHO)
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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.
> not a true alternative to Patreon Translation: Not a paywall service. Patreon is largely that function for people. The ability to just get donations existed long before. A tool to combine donations with access to exclusive stuff is the main focus of Patreon. Personally, I see paywall-service as unfortunate because paywalls shouldn't exist. We need to find solutions (like patronage not tied to paywalls) to fund crea…
I think if something's valuable enough, someone will be willing to cover the cost, irrespective of whether it's also freely available.
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Tor is a security tool that might be used for evil purposes. It's not a gun, Tor is not developed so that pedophiles can share child porn.
And guns aren't developed for murders. But that isn't the point I was trying to glibly make. People contribute to lots of well-intentioned took that contribute some kind of indirectly to evil things.
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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.
> not a true alternative to Patreon Translation: Not a paywall service. Patreon is largely that function for people. The ability to just get donations existed long before. A tool to combine donations with access to exclusive stuff is the main focus of Patreon. Personally, I see paywall-service as unfortunate because paywalls shouldn't exist. We need to find solutions (like patronage not tied to paywalls) to fund crea…
Why not?
Note that Liberapay had to change payment processors, and in the process they changed how the payments work ( https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-status-update-a7... ). I get the impression that they're getting into a state now where there's probably an "expectations mismatch" between what people expect to be doing when they set up a recurring donation compared to how Liberapay actually works. As the blog pos…
You diplomatically state this, but they fail to deliver on the most important thing of their service, surely there is a plan to fix this?
Unfortunately they were forced to change payment processors (MangoPay kicked them off their platform without an explanation) and they weren't able to find a new payment processor that gave them the same feature (having a staging bank account).
The blog post that GP linked explains things in far more detail.
This is interesting. The non-profit is a French association under the so called 1901 law[0]. In Germany it would the equivalent of an Eingetragener Verein[1]. This structure is flexible, well defined and relatively safe, that is, they are not going to run away with the money as you have quite some reporting work to do and the reporting must be available to everybody. So, from a legal structure point of view, this is…
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> not a true alternative to Patreon Translation: Not a paywall service. Patreon is largely that function for people. The ability to just get donations existed long before. A tool to combine donations with access to exclusive stuff is the main focus of Patreon. Personally, I see paywall-service as unfortunate because paywalls shouldn't exist. We need to find solutions (like patronage not tied to paywalls) to fund crea…
It seems to be working for The Guardian. I think if something's valuable enough, someone will be willing to cover the cost, irrespective of whether it's also freely available.
Hence the efforts to build better coordination models (such as https://snowdrift.coop is doing).
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> not a true alternative to Patreon Translation: Not a paywall service. Patreon is largely that function for people. The ability to just get donations existed long before. A tool to combine donations with access to exclusive stuff is the main focus of Patreon. Personally, I see paywall-service as unfortunate because paywalls shouldn't exist. We need to find solutions (like patronage not tied to paywalls) to fund crea…
> because paywalls shouldn't exist Why not?
Paywalls are a compromise that dramatically reduces the overall benefit a work has in order to get over the freerider problem that public goods face.
Basically: the PAY part isn't the problem, the WALL part is.