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 🤑 ).
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.
Problem is, until then, I'm supporting them. Maybe not monetarily but with presence. That's the point. The more people use it, the more they become the defacto standard --> can't donate to people unless you join Microsoft/Github aka the exact same thing that is happening right now, but worse.
Why do you think Amazon operated at a near loss for so long (maybe still do)? Dominance. "I hate Amazon, but they're operating at a loss, so I'll shop there and 'hurt' them". 20 years later....
Money isn't the only measure of progress.
I'd agree with you if MS was applying this specific business tactic to destroy an established business. But there isn't at the moment, so I am okay with using that until the market becomes big enough to actually be attractive to potential competitors.
I am saying this as someone who was working on an open source payment gateway for crypto and a crowdfunding platform for content creators on the Fediverse: not enough people are willing to risk putting their money in an unproven platform just because they don't like the big corporations.
I asked snowe if they were willing to create a Liberapay or OpenCollective account (back around Feb) as I also had the same thoughts
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.
;)
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!
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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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.
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