Liberapay is my platform of choice! It lacks a lot of flashy features but it feels like the closest thing to an 'exchange between friends' instead of a commercial sort of relationship.<p>For the type of works I link my LiberaPay to, I don't have nor want tiers and rewards associated with them, as that forms a social contract where I am expected to perform more labour. I only want money from people who are thankful for what I've already provided, and I only want what they're willing to provide.<p>I suspect microscopic rewards like discord roles, a news letter, ect. <i>do</i> increase revenue, but then again you're managing a community.<p>I encountered issues with Stripe so that's been disabled, PayPal only, but PayPal doesn't auto renew. Again, I suspect I lost a considerable amount of money because of this. But again, taking money from people who wouldn't explicitly click 'renew' when they get the email doesn't feel right.<p>I also began offering Ko-fi as an option, however, because some people are uncomfortable with unfamiliar platforms.
I follow a lot of very small youtube creators. I can often convince them to start a liberapay just for me to donate. They get 100% of the cut* (Patreon takes 12-16%) and I am supporting both the creator and Liberapay's popularity<p>The main downside is lack of integrations with the tiered perks Patreon offers. Most of the creators I follow don't really rely too heavily on the feature but I can see it becoming a larger hassle if a creator has to manage two platforms<p>* less fees
Fellow Emacsers, note there are a few accounts on Liberapay of people who make some of the things we love:<p>Org Mode: <a href="https://en.liberapay.com/org-mode/" rel="nofollow">https://en.liberapay.com/org-mode/</a><p>- Ihor Radchenko (Org mode maintainer): <a href="https://en.liberapay.com/yantar92/" rel="nofollow">https://en.liberapay.com/yantar92/</a><p>- Bastien "bzg" Guerry: <a href="https://en.liberapay.com/bzg/" rel="nofollow">https://en.liberapay.com/bzg/</a><p>- Timothy "Tec": <a href="https://en.liberapay.com/tec/" rel="nofollow">https://en.liberapay.com/tec/</a><p>Magit: <a href="https://en.liberapay.com/magit/" rel="nofollow">https://en.liberapay.com/magit/</a><p>- Tarsius (Magit, Transient maintainer): <a href="https://en.liberapay.com/tarsius/" rel="nofollow">https://en.liberapay.com/tarsius/</a><p>Guile Emacs: <a href="https://en.liberapay.com/guile-emacs/" rel="nofollow">https://en.liberapay.com/guile-emacs/</a>
Related: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr</a> flattr , which shutdown in 2023.
Since it's nonprofit, are donations 501c3 deductible? I am on the council of a conservation foundation based in Costa Rica. We want to make it easy for US based philanthropists to donate and receive some tax benefits from the donation.<p>There is an organization named Amigos of Costa Rica [1] which is set up for this purpose, but they have somewhat steep fees on top of the payment processor's, and they only reconcile the balance on a weekly basis, through wire xfers, which is not ideal.<p>[1 - <a href="https://www.amigosofcostarica.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amigosofcostarica.org/</a>]
> 745 new donations have been started in the past month, increasing total weekly funding by $899.10<p>> 14 new pledges have been made in the past month, adding $35.79 of weekly donations waiting to be claimed.<p>> 20,426.66 was transferred last week between 14,076 users.<p>Not really encouraging stats for a system that has been around for ten years, though maybe the PR from being mentioned on here will give it a boost.<p>(It took considerable effort to copy that text, because they are using text-selection blocking tricks. Nowhere else on the page is this the case...)
> The fees vary by payment processor, payment method, countries and currencies. In the last year, the average fee percentages have been 3,1 % for the payments processed by Stripe and 5 % for the payments processed by PayPal.<p>Stablecoins seem so obvious it's unbelievable.
Hmm, the name seems a bit off. "Librepay" makes me think of a user-respecting service. Liberapay sounds like it is based in Liberia or something.