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Remember you can donate to help support the development and maintenance of kbin and/or Ernest directly (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Prouvaire@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Ernest recently posted a site update, which included this note:

When Kbin suddenly gained popularity, the project's maintenance costs far exceeded my initial estimates. While community support still allows for the cluster's maintenance, I also need to take care of my own livelihood and commitments.

You may not know (or may have forgotten) that you can directly support kbin and Ernest financially via the following:

https://www.patreon.com/kbin_pub - helps cover kbin costs
https://liberapay.com/kbin - helps cover kbin costs
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin - helps Ernest directly

As he wrote back in July:

Many of you asked me about the possibility of recurring support. I wasn't entirely convinced, especially since the current account balance should maintain the instance. However, I think it would be irresponsible of me not to consider it. /kbin has grown to a level where I can't foresee everything that will happen. It would be great if we could cover monthly costs with Patreon / Liberapay. All funds from Buy Me a Coffee will be transferred to this pool, but from now on, I'll treat it as buying me a coffee... or a beer... literally ;)

It would be nice if he got a few more messages like this: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin/c/6876421

edit: fixed typo

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[–] tea@artemis.camp 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because I was curious which platform takes the smallest cut:

Patreon takes 8%, plus payment processing (I assume another 3-5%). Let's call it 11%.
Buy Me a Coffee seems to take 5%, and Stripe takes 2.9%. Basically 8%.
Liberapay apparently takes 0% themselves, but 3-5% goes to payment processing through Stripe or Paypal. The site is funded by people who directly support the Liberapay account itself lmao. So 3% puts them in the clear lead.

I know Patreon is basically a household name at this point, but if you're open to a bit of change I'd encourage folks to use Liberapay!

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just re: Liberapay's fees, 2.9% is their recorded average when using Stripe and 4.9% the average when using PayPal. YMMV based on e.g. donation size (where a small donation will have a higher % fee due to the processing fees being a combination of flat and %), currency / country, etc.

It's still almost always the lowest-fee option when available, but just wanted to be clear that you can't just jump in and expect to see ~3% regardless of circumstance.

[–] tea@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good point! I've edited my previous comment for accuracy!