Open Collective VS Revolt.chat

Have you thanked a maintainer of an open-source project you use today? If not, go ahead and reach out to them on social media and say thank you. Does that scare you a little bit? That's OK, why not share their project on social media, sponsor them on GitHub or Open Collective, write or film a tutorial, file a great bug report, pick up one of the good-first-bugs, or star their project on GitHub? These are just some... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

There have been steps forward in the direction of making donation easier: https://github.com/sponsors , which can serve as a "fiscal host." The advantage here is that the default rule at law for how a group of developers working together will be treated is partnership, which means joint and several liability. Working with a fiscal host partitions individual liability from group liability. But there are still open... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Are there any FinTech or Incubators out there to fund Co-ops? I am thinking of how https://opencollective.com/ operates for Open Source and Non-Profits. Source: 6 months ago

You know when you envision an idea, and along the way you see someone who made this idea a reality, well, opencollective.com is exactly that. Source: 8 months ago

Going forward, The Odin Project will be completely funded by community donations through Open Collective. A platform designed for transparently collecting and managing funds for open-source projects just like ours. Open Collective will allow The Odin Project to secure vital financial resources directly from the community of developers and learners that benefit from the platform. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

Good time to remind everyone that an open source E2EE decentralized alternative exists for Discord in the form of https://revolt.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

Yeah I've been using them for my indie conferences since 2020. I recently argued [0] that it's not the Year for Matrix, even if Discord now has ads and is doing sketchy stuff typical of enshitification. Unfortunately, I don't see their priorities going towards UX. I'm dropping them. Revolt has promise [1], at the very least as a stopgap. [0] https://youtu.be/WxAO4xDPpkg [1] https://revolt.chat. - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

Or if you are a dude wanting to chill, hmu at revolt.chat. Source: 5 months ago

I haven't looked in to or tried it let due to still having his migraine and nausea the new UI gave me this morning, but just ran across Revolt in another post. Source: 5 months ago

I would highly suggest checking out Revolt (found here: https://revolt.chat/), it's still under somewhat heavy development but it's already a million times better than discord in its current state with existing features and planned features. Source: 5 months ago