Hello, I'm looking to setup a page where people can donate to me as a content creator, but Patreon and the likes aren't cutting it since they're proprietary. Preferably something secure as well so as to avoid leaks to my personal data, as well as the most minimal uses of proprietary libraries (e.g. Google Analytics). Doesn't have to mirror Patreon features.

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[–] Halce@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 years ago

Well Liberapay.com is the most obvious one...

[–] Kelp@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Liberapay?

[–] uberstar@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Great alternative, but is there something that doesn't lock you in either Stripe or PayPal (most optimal would be something outside the US)? If not, then I'll settle with Liberapay

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The problem is that PayPal and Stripe are payment processors.

I only know a FLOSS payment processor and I have no idea if is authorized by financial companies.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

To make matters worse, Liberapay, just like Ko-Fi, is hosted behind a Cloudflare Proxy.

[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Curious, other than cf obviously being proprietary, what issues do you have?

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Curious, did I mentioned other issues?

[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

You did not mention any issues, I was wondering what they were

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What is about OpenCollective?

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

OpenCollective

Unfortunately as well 🙁

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

Then you would have to tolerate it.

The rest are propietary ones.

[–] Halce@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Well... https://btcpayserver.org

[–] Echedenyan@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

Well, I was telling about common currencies.

For Cryptos It is ensured these things exists but I am not a fan of PoW.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 years ago

opencollective.

[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

You can self-host FOSS-pay: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/fosspay

It uses Stripe as the payment backend and also integrates with Liberapay to some extend.

Edit: example by the main developer: https://drewdevault.com/donate/

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 4 points 3 years ago

ohh. This looks really interesting 😊 Thanks for this!

[–] uberstar@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is really nice, but I don't have the essential resources required to self host sadly.

[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Seems like you need a Pi!

[–] IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You could try Comradery!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Which payment processors do they use?

Edit: ah, looks like its stripe. But fees are much lower than patreon. Still tho, iirc liberapay has no fees, and is foss and funded by donations.

[–] IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, both are great imo. I didn't mention Liberapay because some users had already mentioned it.

[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

You might be interested in interledger if you make websites, I make about 15$ a week off of users with coil just by setting up an interledger pointer.

[–] SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

GNU Taler? could be cool https://taler.net/en/index.html

[–] TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

Comradery

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is what cryptocurrencies were made for

[–] uberstar@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

...they were made specifically for content creators?? xd

So if I understand crypto in the context of content creation right, you just install a software wallet for a specific cryptocurrency and start providing the wallet address? Or is there something I'm missing?