Re: Patrick Volkerding troubles; Slackware Store has been problematic

On 07/25/2018 01:29 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Longtime Debian developer Joey Hess
> became so disenchanted with Patreon that he moved to competitor
> Liberapay[2], which he now recommends.  (See Joey's comments about Patreon
> problems at https://www.patreon.com/joeyh .)

For a definition of "moved" that still has 72 patrons donating $378/month
through patreon, as opposed to 44 donating $40/week (~180/month) through the
other thing.

His blog post complaining about patreon was about
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/12/13/facing-a-rebellion-of-furious-creators-patreon-backs-away-from-a-new-fee/
last year, which patreon backed down on after the torches and pitchforks came
out on the part of its entire userbase. (The _current_ patreon kerfluffle is
attacking sex workers, which they say is imposed on them by payment processors,
ala
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of-adult-content-creators
. Patreon seems to have an annual scandal since its inception. One of them
"death of the internet" cron jobs.)

> [2] The politics surrounding online payment systems are somewhat twisty.
> FWIW:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberapay

This is the first I've heard of librepay, usually the paypal also-rans that come
up are ko-fi.com and d.rip. (A bit like the way twitter has ello, mastodon,
disq.us, plurk, posterous, and whatever the "gnu social microblogging site" is
in the first paragraph of https://www.fsf.org/twitter...)

Rob