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| ▲ | bobmcnamara 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| $.01/user/month would be quite a bit here |
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| ▲ | einsteinx2 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Subtract the standard ~3 cent transaction fee and he’d end up owing money instead. That seems to always be the catch with micropayment ideas. | | |
| ▲ | janandonly an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Sounds like the above 2 ideas should be combined.
Lightning payments are more or less free, and an index or tracker that looks at your bash history could make it possible to spread 5$ per month over all projects that you use. | |
| ▲ | __turbobrew__ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Sounds like we need an open source index fund where you can make one payment that goes into a pool of money which is invested into the top 1000 open source projects. | |
| ▲ | aftbit an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It almost seems like someone ought to be able to build some kind of digital currency with low transaction fees and no centralized payment processor that could power microtransactions. I wonder why nobody has done that yet. | | |
| ▲ | einsteinx2 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I know crypto was supposed to solve this problem, but I’ve never seen an implementation that actually did the job. You’d think someone would have built a successful “Patreon for micropayments” in the past 10 years, but no one has. |
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| ▲ | ycombinatrix 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| payment processors: "how about no" |
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| ▲ | karamanolev 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why? If every person participating is giving $10-$20 per month to tens or hundreds of projects and then once distributed, this equates to $x00 or $x000/project/month, why would the payment processors mind. Of course, it's all in theory. | | |
| ▲ | ycombinatrix 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | they charge a minimum fee per transaction. from Accursed Farms' donation page (https://www.accursedfarms.com/donations/) "Paypal keeps $0.30 + 2.9% of every donation, so please keep anything less than $0.32 as they have enough money already." i think Cash App has the lowest fees i've seen at like $0.01 which would still be too much. not saying it is impossible - but likely not viable directly with the current payment providers. |
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| ▲ | squigz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is why I feel like a missing piece of Patreon/Kofi/whatever is the ability to say "Here's $x; divide it automagically amongst the creators I'm currently following" Sure, I think a lot of those donations would amount to a few pennies or so at once, but I feel like a lot more people would be willing to support creators if they didn't have to constantly choose which to support. |
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| ▲ | robertlagrant 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I would love it if something like Github would accept donations from a repo and parcel it out to the repo's dependencies somehow. It would sadly make Github even stickier, but it would be a great feature. |
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