to qualify for "GitHub Sponsors" as a developer you have to join a "waitlist", submit yourself to an intrusive "rigorous vetting process" and then be evaluated by an anonymous "Advisory Panel" that decides if you pass.
i wonder where i've seen this before 🤔
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not interested in paypal broadcasting my state-assigned name to everyone who clicks (and then probably stealing the money anyway)
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FWIW, I have both PayPal and Bitcoin donations at grapheneos.org/donate and the vast majority of the donations have been via Bitcoin. I doubt that would be the case if I added direct credit card donations via Stripe but they would take substantial fees: stripe.com/en-ca/pricing.
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Stripe can also be even more of a hassle than PayPal. They aren't as hostile towards people receiving money as PayPal, but you end up needing to pay fees for chargebacks: stripe.com/docs/disputes (which would be $15 CAD per dispute if I used it). People *will* donate fraudulently.
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Even if you're fine with people getting donations back fraudulently due to later regret (which may not seem so bad), you need to win the dispute or you pay the fee and your account ends up flagged for involvement in fraud. Leads to fund freezes and eventually losing the account.
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People will do donate with other people's credit cards in practice, thinking that what they're doing is harmless or even a good thing, and if that person discovers it and does a chargeback that's genuine fraud and you can't avoid paying the fee and then ending up totally screwed.
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Now, imagine how bad it is when shipping people products and dealing with them either refusing the package + doing a chargeback (so you lose the shipping/handling/insurance + chargeback fee + account will end up frozen) or even worse they take it and claim they never received it.