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Re:Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform by gregknicholson on Thursday February 28, 2019 @01:51PM (#19273963)
It seems to be working for The Guardian.

I think if something's valuable enough, someone will be willing to cover the cost, irrespective of whether it's also freely available.

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Re:Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform by quadrangle on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:07PM (#19274591)
The freerider-dilemma is a real thing. Even when it works in some cases (Wikipedia has large enough audience to get by on donations even when the percentage that donates is tiny), those are the exception.

Hence the efforts to build better coordination models (such as https://snowdrift.coop is doing).

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