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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 11 hours 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

GoFundMe mentions (25)

• Never call Chucky Cheese at 3am.

  That's why I'm floating a gofundme.com change.org petition to have the legislature mandate that Chuck E. Cheese stay open 24 hours. As a progressive, it's the least I can do to save humanity. Save the mice, people! Source: 11 months ago

• 40$ to save an almost homeless student

  Try posting r/assistance and http://gofundme.com. Source: 11 months ago

• The story of my transitioning

  Hello, my name is Ronald Merle Mcnutt, I am a 35 year old transitioning veteran, I've recently embraced my true inner feelings and have thought of getting a gender reassignment surgery. However, my family does not support me and all my friends have left me, I am running out of money and I am constantly being harassed by right wingers and nazis. I've felt miserable for the past 3 weeks, I've gained weight, started... Source: 12 months ago

• Top 5 brazil momentos

  Hello! If you could, please donate to my gofundme.com for my gender reassignment surgery, the name is Ronald Merle Mcnutt from Los Angeles, California, much regards. Source: 12 months ago

• Eye surgery on Monday

  I don’t have ocular melanoma but I have seen cases detailed in inspire.com or gofundme.com or https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/forum/general-forum/[inspire.com](https://inspire.com) or gofundme.com or https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/forum/general-forum/ I know I have surgical removal including removing the eh, a radiation technique involving sewing a radiation plaque to the back of the eye, to treat the... Source: about 1 year ago