> There is also Snowdrift.coop (in construction)
Snowdrift is a great concept, and the people behind it have great intentions.
But it's been in construction for *years*. Don't hold your breath. Liberapay,
Open Collective, and Goteo are all providing ways to accomplish essentially
the same
Agreed, it is still better than preypal.
And your right, libre software takes time and sometmes has issues in the
beginning.
2018-05-14T03:35:19+0200 jamesdhazl...@gmail.com wrote:
> Any good alternatives? I'm a crypto enthusiast. Still, I'm not sure it
> is developed enough.
There is also Snowdrift.coop (in construction) which is based on
crowdmatching instead of crowdfunding, and will require results of the
funded
I wrote about all this recently on my blog:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2018/04/19/funding-the-web-commons-or-how-do-you-fund-crowdfunding/
GNU Taler is a great concept, and I hope they can find some banks who will
work with them. Until that happens though, it's not
Potentially Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/
Looks interesting, but why is it only for chrome and mozilla?:/
Potentially GNU Taler: https://taler.net/en/index.html
Any good alternatives? I'm a crypto enthusiast. Still, I'm not sure it is
developed enough.
I did not know PayPal was supporting the --- genocide.
brashley46, why single out the Palestinians? The same argument could be made
regarding the Golan Heights (the Israeli settlers living there can use PayPal
whereas the rest of the Syrians living outside of the Golan Heights cannot).
I'm guessing it boils down to whether PayPal wishes to deal
...and libre =/= gratis, lol.
I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for the heads-up.
I personally avoid using Paypal, for one supreme reason, which is political:
The Israeli settlers in the internatilally-recognised-to-be-illegal
settlements on the West Bank are allowed to use Paypal. Palestinians legally
resident in the West Bank, in those areas remaining to them, are not.
one annoying issue
In my experience, freedom doesn't come without annoying issues
I have only had one annoying issue, but I suspect it was an uncommon error:
That I got charged twice and the payment was only corrected, the next day.
Weird indeed, but for the most part, Liberapay is a very, very good idea.
I know there are 'good' reasons for the Trisquel project to use PayPal, but
it just seems so inappropriate, considering the idealism behind the project
(cough cough freedom cough cough).
I just wrote an email to Ruben, addressing my concern on this matter and
suggesting to use Liberapay.
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