12mo ago

Donating to admins without github

So, I think the admins are doing a great job and wanted to donate, however it only seems to be possible to donate via Github (snowe's account). Saying Microsoft isn't my favorite company would be putting it lightly, so going through them to donate is... not happening.

Is there any other way to donate? I'd even do bitcoin or monero if so requested (crypto market is having meltdown right now, so it's cheaper than usual 🤑 ).

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If it's any incentive, Github sponsors costs money to Microsoft. They pay for the processing fees, and Stripe is not that cheap for micropayments.
- That's for now. It's how they are trying to undercut the market for donating to devs. Once they think they have the market, suddenly fees will pop up and they'll start taking their cut.
  That's the cost of doing business.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
  Surely, but there is not forcing you to keep using them when they change the rules.
I asked snowe if they were willing to create a Liberapay or OpenCollective account (back around Feb) as I also had the same thoughts
I'll ask them if they've got theirs ready as I still want to ensure that the instance is supported
If anyone's interested in supporting me however I've got a Liberapay account set up🤗
- I do wanna give you money on Liberapay but...
  Cannot be renewed because the account of the recipient isn't ready to receive new payments.
  ;)
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
  ah thank you!
  looks like I'll have to finish the steps today🤗
  
  alright it's been done
  hopefully it works🤗
  thank you for the support!
Maybe I'm blind but I can't find the donation page or the one that brings you to it for that matter. Also, OpenCollective is a nice platform that the Lemmy devs also use. It can be a good fit here too :)
- All links for the instance are viewable on https://me.programming.dev/ (or most are on the sidebar)
  Donation page is here: https://github.com/sponsors/snowe2010
  I have some personal spots to donate but theyre not connected to the instance so the snowe github sponsor donation is the only official instance one atm until we add some new spots
I want to give money to Mike. If I give the money to Bill, he will hand it to Mike.
But I don't like Bill.
Oh well.
If you’re unwilling to support a dev through the channels they want support through, why are you willing to consume their product? Is it okay because their code is only stored on GitHub but compiled and run elsewhere? How many levels of obfuscation do you need?

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