The @matrix is moving away from Patreon. But the interesting part is that they are moving to Donorbox with minimum donation of £5 per month.
I personally find this limit unacceptable and even too high. Biw the question is, would you donate £5 or more to Matrix?
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@Mehrad @matrix ☯️ Pro's and Con's (without knocking anything out or saying anything final)
➖ I think the minimum does knock out the act of donating even a tiny amount as GESTURE - but still 5 seems low... there will be less 'hits' as minimum is increased... 1 being lowest denominator - e.g. 5 x $1 donations rather than $5 to one place
➕ People should be donating more and well I don't approve this way but does set a bar which is measurably almost the lowest so I'd say overall this is ok.
It might make less go around but guess the option is nicer.
I'd be happy to hear if you do small donations anyway and if the conversion (perhaps from your currency) is the main thing... which maybe is the next point
➕ less currency charges for people? (I assume $1 amounts would cost more to convert... or maybe it doesn't work this way)
@freeschool
Thanks for the comment. I actually donate to quite many projects monthly or weekly, and the conversion happens at **my** end, so the recipient will get all the exchanged money without overhead. I donate based on my usage. I donate to my mastodon instance more than what I donate to @matrix
One thing to consider is that $5 monthly means $60 annually, and when I donate to around 20 projects, that will end up to be $1200 which is about 50% of my income! So imho min $5 is way too high.