[harlanji]

Patreon seems like the next best thing that has peoples' cards and their cut is 10%.

Credit card fees alone were universally 2.9% + some cents last I checked.

It's interesting that GitHub takes 0%, but that's clearly subsidized by something and I'd like to know what before I sign up to that ("clearly," because of transaction fees they're paying).

10% is a reasonable cut if they can help maintainers get from $0 to $1 and beyond.

[yoavm]

So every time I'm sponsoring someone on Github, Microsoft loses some money? That's even better!

[robinhood]

I don't get this comment.

I host all my OSS projects on Github so I can have free and unlimited CI. I have access to Github Copilot for free. I use VScode which is arguably a great software all day, every day.

All this because Microsoft has a shit ton of money and they can afford funding the OSS community as a whole.

[aragilar]

And you don't think there might be a reason for all that (and that reason might correlate with people being happy to get one over them)?

[some_furry]

Suddenly I want to support a lot of small projects so they eat more transaction fees.

[spacemanspiff01]

Presumably they don't charge credit cards individually...

[38]

> 10% is a reasonable cut if they can help maintainers get from $0 to $1 and beyond.

how you can say this with a straight face is beyond me.

[DandyDev]

HN is supposed to be a site where participants each other's opinions.

Your response feels disproportionate. As if this person is suggesting giving up your liver is a reasonable price.