I've always understood platforms like Substack or Patreon to really be a solution to the payment processing problem first and foremost.

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t-writescode an hour ago | parent [-]

That’s exactly right. Finding ways to get paid for your work, and all the very complicated way taxes interact with it all, unless you’re going all-in on ads, is a messy problem that people will happily centralize for.

And for the less technical people, we have 30+ years of solving this problem with different websites that each went in and out of vogue, from groceries and MySpace, through Facebook and now Medium and Substack.

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doublepg23 an hour ago | parent [-]

I follow a very prolific open-source/FOSS podcasting network.

All of their infrastructure from the very bottom to the very top is FOSS - except their membership program. It links to a third-party which processes payments compliantly.

They've attempted a pivot to funding the network via BTC/Lightning but clearly that's polarizing to a lot of people even though it better aligns with their philosophy.

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shimman 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

Which podcast is this? It's not on my radar, def interested.

	▲	doublepg23 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com I've been listening to the network for decades now and directly credit my IT career to the people who've been platformed on the various shows over the years. Lots of great content.