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I do not want to hijack this thread or promote myself, but maybe you could suggest something.

I realized I was working up to 50% on open source projects, and I wanted to accept sponsoring, but I moved away from github (which is surely a terrible idea for an open source guy, but I had my "stallman moment").

I do work mostly on gitlab and my own gitea instance.

What I did is setup stripe, with donate button on my blog but it is not very friendly and there is no social effect.

Do you know an alternative to github sponsor that allow source to be scattered around?

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https://liberapay.com/

https://opencollective.com/ (typically requires OSS license + 100 stars + 2 contributors)

Thank you for the suggestions. I am looking more for "personal" donation rather than "project" donation. I realize it might be harder to sponsor an individual rather than a project.

https://ko-fi.com/ - one-off

https://www.patreon.com/ - recurring

https://github.com/sponsors - you can use it while contributing on other sites

https://www.paypal.com/

You could keep a github mirror of your work with issues/pull requests/wiki/... disabled, have links to your gitlab/issue tracker and automatically push to github whenever you push to gitlab or on a cron. This would give you the discoverability of github with the control of your own instance.

That is if you are willing to touch github again.

Yes I could do that, but it is a big hassle. But yeah, it provides discoverability.

ko-fi.com is an alternative, similar to Patreon. It offers many different types of links and buttons, and is comparable to GitHub sponsors in terms of features and tiers, as far as I can tell. (Not affiliated, by the way)

This is a nice platform, it seems to be close to what I was thinking.

opencollective, maybe?

Here's an example: https://opencollective.com/neovim

Thanks for the suggestion.

What made you move away from GitHub?

Well, I do realize I might be way over reacting, but:

https://github.com/kuon/WhyILeftGithub

It is a general feeling of putting everything in the same basket.

I am not grandparent, but:

https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation#GitHub

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