Even bearing in mind Twitter’s nuance problem, that seems like an awfully glib dismissal of the real complications of that prospect.
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It's only glib because it's responding to an overly glib statement of the problem. I agree there's more nuance.
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For example I don't do it! I just think there's plenty of funding by largely locked in undesirable jobs.
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btw I didn't mean to imply that you were being glib. But rather that I was responding to a glib meme.
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I also think it would be good for Patreon et al to be considered more "legitimate" in the OSS community.
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1: In particular, it would be helpful if people could be funded to do exploratory work without worrying about being accused of fraud
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2: If their exploration doesn't pan out. I'd have a lot of trouble justifying setting up a Patreon for this reason.
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3/3: another issue is being subject to endless debates about whether the amount of $ donated is "too much"
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"why do you need $10k to write a webpack replacement?! I could do that in an afternoon"
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Ideally leave it up to the people deciding whether to fund or not.
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