[FRIAM] Venice and Paying for content!

uǝlƃ ☣ gepropella at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 12:26:22 EST 2019


For sites like Guardian, Aeon, ProPublica, ICIJ, etc. once per year along with Debian, EFF, Wikipedia, etc.  For some services like DuckDNS, I "subscribe".

On 1/7/19 9:14 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Hey, thanks. The Guardian site popped up a plea for support so I finally
> did.
> 
> Which reminded me to ask folks: How often do you contribute to web services
> and how?
> 
> I do a yearly donation to Wikipedia, and subscribe to three or so
> developers via Patreon
>     https://www.patreon.com/
> .. and recently to Open Collective
>      https://opencollective.com
> for Rollup. And like the Guardian, spontaneous acts of gratuitous giving :)
> 
> I wonder how the web is evolving to paying folks for useful services? The
> Brave browser folks have built in payments but I've not entirely switched
> over yet so don't know how well that's going.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
>    -- Owen
> 
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:35 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
> 
>> Oh, nice. The Guardian has an article about Venice too
>>
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venice-losing-fight-with-tourism-and-flooding
>>
>> -Jochen


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☣ uǝlƃ



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