Eugen RochkoThe past few days have extracted a heavy toll from me. While it's nice to see your work finally taken seriously in the mainstream, the 12-14 hour workdays I've had to pull to handle everything is anything but...
I rarely talk about how tough this job can be, since I feel responsibility to only associate positive things with the project. But it is a lot of responsibilities, and a lot of stress, for what can sometimes feel like inadequate pay.
I do software development, devops, accounting, customer support, project management, product design, public relations, and moderation for 36K per year...
Dave Lane 
🇳🇿@Gargron even though Patreon has its issues, I'm going to support your efforts there. Many others should do the same. And when a better FOSS platform emerges to replace Patreon, we'll be primed to jump to it instead.
Geeks Love Detail@lightweight @Gargron I agree completely on that
@Gargron Done. I'm sorry I didn't do it sooner.
Johannes 🌻
Charles J Gervasi
Blanker Hans 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@jkbecker @lightweight @Gargron I'm supporting Mastodon for about 5 years on Patreon. Should I switch?
Gerbrand van Dieyen@jkbecker Thanks for the link. I have setup a recurring donation
Golda@jkbecker @lightweight @Gargron ah is this better than patreon? just signed up for a small recurring one there, lemme know if should switch it
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️@Blort I shifted my contributions to OpenCollective. I'm less of a fan of LiberaPay.
Josef Davies-Coates@lightweight @Blort why's that? Just out of interest 🙂
@jdaviescoates @Blort my understanding is that LiberaPay, despite being ostensibly open source, can't easily (or at all?) be implemented by others. So far as I'm aware, there's only one instance of Liberapay. I'd need to investigate the situation further to say anything definitive, but it makes me cautious.
@lightweight @Blort ah, well, afaik that's actually true of @opencollect too although I personally know & greatly respect the people there and love their plans to Exit to Community so it doesn't really bother me
@jdaviescoates @Blort @opencollect yes, I also have concerns about them, too. Their 'openness' seems to know lots of bounds. But they're local-ish to me, and I want to support them.
Liberapay@lightweight @jdaviescoates @Blort That's correct, there can only be one Liberapay. Having multiple instances would be quite difficult, rather inefficient, and I don't think it could be an open network like the Fediverse because I don't see how we could avoid having to require that the creation of a new instance be approved by the others.
@Liberapay @lightweight @Blort I think the point is that people should just be able to spin up their own instances of "collect (regular) payments" infrastructure, needn't be called nor have anything to do with Liberapay, just like my WordPress site doesn't need to have anything to do with another.
@jdaviescoates @lightweight @Blort People are able to do that, just not with the Liberapay software. One of Liberapay's goals is to create a network effect, so it can only be either a single service or a network of interconnected services. Since the latter is much more complicated, I focus on the former and make no effort to facilitate the use of the Liberapay software by others. However, Liberapay is open source, can be forked, and is itself a fork of a previous project.