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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by armini »

theshrike79 wrote: post #106

After Google shut down Google Reader I specifically went looking for an alternative I could pay money for and landed with Newsblur[0]. I've been a happy customer ever since. Pretty soon after that I moved over from Gmail to Fastmail[1], again it was a service that took my money so that I was the customer not the product being sold. [0] http://www.newsblur.com [1] https://fastmail.com/

Yeah a lot of people here question why we're charging a minimum 5% fee but fail to understand that we all need to make ends meet or else we will also be shut down in time.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by zamalek »

a_c wrote: post #187
Sephr wrote: post #23

The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.

Came across this platform before that takes no commission and depend solely on donation. https://en.liberapay.com/ The platform itself is also a project on the platform, where the donation happens https://en.liberapay.com/Liberapay

Lp is refreshingly absent of bullshit. It's a very simple website that does donations, and donations well.

GitHub sponsors isn't too bad, they take a 3% cut (and the CC takes another 3%). But you're effectively donating to Microsoft, which feels icky.

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