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I remember reading that they prefer you donate via Liberapay. Idk why that is, but that's what I did. Back when I first donated they were only getting $38 per week.
https://liberapay.com/Lemmy/donate
There is also a patreon and an opencollective donation link somewhere.
I also used LiberaPay to donate, and I also prefer it for it being free and opensource platform and it is a not-for-profit organization.
Nice, thanks for sharing. I'm considering running an instance and was wondering if/how I could get help funding it. Just gotta see if it works with Korean banks... probably not, but maybe it's an opportunity for open source contribution
https://liberapay.com/about/global I don't see Korean currencies in their supported list, so I guess it doesn't work.
The link to all three donation platforms they support/use is linked from the donation page that I linked in this post.
I've had a closer look at Liberapay after whay you said. It seems they don't take any cut at all. Liberapay itself is funded through donations. However, there are of course fees for the payment processor.
They also seem to accept several currencies, now I wonder which of these results in the most money in the devs pockets. The default seems to be USD, so maybe that? But could be the default because most people will prefer paying in USD.
Edit: hm, seems one of the two gets their payout in USD, the other in EUR...so I guess these are the currencies that work best.
To answer my questions:
So switching to USD from next month.
Wow, even the $260/wk it is at now is pathetic imo. We need to pump up those stats.
LiberaPay takes nothing from donations, and while you can't run away from transaction fees, they incentivize grouping monthly donations into bigger timespans to reduce "waste" on fees.
Afaik OpenCollective doesn't take any cut either, but I'm not sure.
I donated on OpenCollective, you're right they don't take cuts from your donation, there's just an option to add a little something for them if you want, I liked the transparency.