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I know that feeling. Few years back someone asked me if I accept Bitcoin as donation for an SDK I wrote https://github.com/namaggarwal/splitwise It felt so good that I went ahead and create a wallet and he donated me some fractional BTC. It wasn't much at that time but it motivated me a lot.
It makes me sad to see developers donating time and effort to support an ecosystem (VSCode) built explicitly to spy on users and promote proprietary software. The fact that VSC's core is released under an open source license is irrelevant to the harm that is being done.
I’m pretty excited about the GitHub Sponsors feature opening up worldwide, think it can actually help foster a culture of contributing back to the people whose work we all use. They’ve got an interesting page where they show you all the sponsorable projects you depend on, sorted by the most heavily depended-on projects first. Besides voluntary contributions I want to see maintainers refusing to take feature requests…
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The iirc court of appeals has confirmed that merely having a donation link is okay. So you might legally be somewhat limited in what you can write there (like "donate to me SO THAT I can write more code YOU enjoy"), but saying "Support me / donate to me / Support my work through Ko-Fi" is entirely fine.
If you say something like "Dont worry its not illegal you'll be fine" you really need a link to some proof. :)
https://rescue.fi/article.php/20070131_effi
It was only district court but the prosecutor did not seek the court of appeals (which they legally have to do if there's a chance their view might succeed), leaving the precedent.
It makes me sad to see developers donating time and effort to support an ecosystem (VSCode) built explicitly to spy on users and promote proprietary software. The fact that VSC's core is released under an open source license is irrelevant to the harm that is being done.
All the people you wish would care will scoff, dismiss the comment as being looney and that'll be that.
You have to realize that, unfortunately, in every part of life, marketing matters. Got to make a message your audience will appreciate.
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The iirc court of appeals has confirmed that merely having a donation link is okay. So you might legally be somewhat limited in what you can write there (like "donate to me SO THAT I can write more code YOU enjoy"), but saying "Support me / donate to me / Support my work through Ko-Fi" is entirely fine.
"Donate to me" sounds like a pretty explicit appeal to give money, so I would personally steer away from that to not get in trouble with the law ( "rahankeräyksellä [tarkoitetaan] toimintaa, jossa yleisöön vetoamalla kerätään vastikkeetta rahaa" & "yleisöön vetoamisella [tarkoitetaan] suullisesti, kirjallisesti tai muulla tavoin ilmaistua pyyntöä tai kehotusta antaa rahaa keräykseen" ). AFAIK, just adding your PayPal…
"Minua voi tukea tämän linkin kautta"
"Lahjoita minulle tämän linkin kautta"
All are acceptable.
And since "lahjoita" is entirely equal to "support" then also
"Tue minua tämän linkin kautta" is entirely fine.
Of course the Finnish justice system is known for being unjust and arbitrary in many cases so your mileage may vary.
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Honestly, I think I heard about the website you are using about donations but I wouldn't necessarily put my credit card in there. It would be trivial for you to also put a PayPal address, which seems safer for one-off donations. You might also be tempted to put BTC/ETH addresses but I doubt there's many donors that way.
You can pay via PayPal and the author likely receives money via PayPal. One could cut out the middle man, but at the same time, it's a prettier interface to look at specifically made for the purpose of donations.
Accepting Monero and Bitcoin costs you nothing and is a great way of solicitating donations as cryptocurrency users are historically massive donors.