Liberapay VS Effective Altruism Funds

Liberapay Reviews

Effective Altruism Funds Reviews

Liberapay mentions (28)

• Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers

  Reminder that librapay exists, and their developers are only paid from user donations, just like anyone else on the platform. https://liberapay.com/ (I only wish their CC costs could be reduced a bit to make micropayments viable). - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

  I don't think they want your money, not unless you are an enterprise costumer. But feel free to donate to another open source project: https://liberapay.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover | Mastodon

  I often see links to Liberapay and Open Collective (Liberapay even has an official Mastodon account). Source: over 1 year ago

• The Asymmetry of Open Source: "Users need open source projects, but open source projects do not need users"

  It seems a little suspicious that the person sharing those posts isn't building an open platform himself -- why not make it more open /u/paydevs ? I think Liberapay is a great way to spontaneously pay OSS developers. I'm not opposed to paydevs.com (as far as they're showing), but I encourage increasing transparency and openness, as is I don't feel confident supporting the platform. I think individuals, governments... Source: over 1 year ago

• The problems of working on Open-Source, summarized by Benjamin Lupton (500m monthly downloads)

  This doesn't seem to mention liberapay (and patreon which funds developers directly. Source: over 1 year ago

Effective Altruism Funds mentions (30)

• Can I get an TLDR?

  The "manor" example is one of the few points I've seen brought up in response, but it's far from clear-cut, as the forum posts linked above explain. Feel free to draw your own conclusions from them. I'm not convinced it was the best use of $15 million, but I also don't think that buying a medium-price-range conference center was an obviously bad idea, and the money came from private donors (not the standard EA... Source: about 1 year ago

• What about people like me who struggle to feel financially safe?

  Sure! None of the ways of donating that I know about (directly to the charities themselves, EA funds, others here) have a minimum amount or anything like that. Source: over 1 year ago

• Do you give to charity?

  It’s easy to look for excuses not to give but donations can make a big difference, especially if targeted in the right places. See comments further down about Givewell and Effective Altruism. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• Do you give to charity?

  I give through Effective Altruism: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions

  Good news: If you want to support global health and development but not animal welfare, you can just donate to the Global Health and Development Fund! None of the money will go to anti-factory farming charities. Even better, you don't even need to go through EA: You could donate directly to charities recommended by GiveWell so you know exactly who's getting your money. Source: over 1 year ago