Would it be possible for a nonprofit to step in and fulfill the role Patreon plays? A company like Patreon seeems completely tangential to “endless growth” unless they’re expanding for purely infrastructure reasons..
On liberapay, you have to manually fund your account in advance. If your account runs out of money, you have to log back in and top it up again.
See our recent blog post “The third year of Liberapay” for more details: https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-third-year-of-liberapa...