There's some content creators that I get value from and watch on Youtube. From time to time I get the desire to donate a couple of euro to them, however, most of the times they either have Patreon or nothing at all. Sometimes they have Ko-fi - then there's no problem.

I try to avoid giving money to US businesses as much as realistically possible. But I'm wondering whether I should make an exception here. What are your guys' thoughts on this?

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[โ€“] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I never really thought about it but there are patronage and crowdfunding options from Europe such as Liberapay.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I heard Liberapay and OpenCollective uses Paypal in the backend, but I would need to verify.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 month ago

    Oof. I might even consider a bitcoin wallet over paypal.

    I wonder if Kofi or Steady use american backend systems? Most of the world's fintech is built on some ancient proprietary IBM COBOL libraries, it's kind of annoying at times.

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