Liberapay Reviews

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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 / about 2 months 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 / over 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

GiveDirectly mentions (5)

• I'm Russian in the US. I want to donate my 3080 GPU to someone from Ukraine in the US

  Before this war I had a setup on givedirectly.org to donate little bit to the poorest people on earth in west Afrika, before realizing this money when donated to dictatorships is indirectly ends up in the dirty pockets of some dictators or terrorists like wagner group and impact of this kind of donation is very limited and long term consequences of it might not even be beneficial at all. Source: 12 months ago

• Why does a 13 and 14 year old has a gun?

  You should definitely help random strangers! Do it by contributing money to stop malaria, or whatever the current top charity on http://givewell.org is. That helps far more people with far more efficiency than giving money directly to someone you pass on the street (and if you want to give money directly to people who need it, there’s also http://givedirectly.org, which does exactly that (and was also in... Source: almost 1 year ago

• 0.12 'Eye of Magnus' Update (for CK3 1.8.2)

  Okay, thanks. And do you think this holds true even as I played for a few hours on the new patch? Btw, thank you so much for this amazing work! I'm really mind blown :) I saw that you dont want donations, so I'll donate 50$ to givedirectly.org instead! Because this has given me even more enjoyment than the original game. Source: about 1 year ago

• Capitalism has lifted trillions out of poverty! Look at Somalia, Peru, Chile, the DRC, the Philippines, Nigeria, Niger, South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar, India, Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Mozambique, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Chad, South Sudan, Central African R. and Haiti!

  For example, $40/month is already a decent level for a person in many African countries. This fund provides directly this sum to one person givedirectly.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• Instead of this prepayment meter nastiness, couldn't everyone have a basic amount free electricity daily?

  In general I love the concept of "just give cash", Donated a decent amount of givedirectly.org etc., but here I don't think it solves anything. The key negative of prepayment meters is they are MUCH more expensive per unit than normal pricing, right? It's about removing that unfairness primarily. Source: over 1 year ago