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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by ronilan on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:05PM (#21448598)
> but if you hope to reap the benefits of having your work in front of a lot of people

What OP says, and you miss, is that some people are not interested in reaping benefits. They are interested in doing work.

They are constrained by time and money, so yes, sponsorship can help their projects, but they are not in it for the reaping. If anything they will be happy to see a lot of people reap benefits from their work, not the other way around.

How many are like that? I don’t know. Maybe not a lot, but some for sure.

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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by davidw on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:36PM (#21449644)
Well OP seemed to be unhappy about not getting the benefits of having people sponsor them with a model like this.

There are tons of people who like to just go do stuff, and that's great! But if you don't promote it at all, certain avenues are not open to you.

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