Hey so, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle with Patreon lately after a terms of service change that threatens all sex workers
There's now an open letter to Patreon to please not do that http://www.openlettertopatreon.com/
The idea of folks losing their livelihood overnight for reasons I cannot see as justified is terrifying, and there's no Patreon alternative either.
@Gargron How about creating a distributed Patreon-like software, now that you are done with Twitter?
@lertsenem I love building stuff but I can't branch out like that. I mean I'm already messing with the youtube replacement as my vacation side project. I can't do all this alone. Plus I'm frankly not sure if decentralizing Patreon is possible. There's too much coupling to financial institutions. Unless you do cryptocurrency but then that's a different beast with its own huge set of problems.
@Gargron Well, I meant that half as a joke ("you took down Twitter, how about Patreon now?"), but when thinking about it I can't really figure how that would work either.
The best I can envision is multiple Liberapay-like instances, but I don't know how (or why) they would communicate. And above all that would leave connecting to the bank to the end user, and I can't imagine that being trivial.
perhaps taking a look at OpenBazaar is of interest? It's a p2p bitcoin shop on IPFS... didn't try it but i'm tempted at some point for my music. it is not a membership platform tho.
