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> Donating via GitHub Sponsors is better for Servo than donating via Open Collective

https://servo.org/sponsorship/#donation-fees

(Someone asked us to change the top link but I'm not sure we should do that without permission from lostmsu.

What I did do is detach this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221548, so it's now the top comment.)

Edit: permission received. Link changed now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222904).

Hmm. GitHub being big enough gives some leverage for payment method fees? Seems a bit absurd that PayPal can take more than 10%.

The collectives' operational costs come out of the fee, GitHub is big enough to zero-rate their cut. But I'd kinda rather also support OpenCollective use over a tech monopoly.

Aren't those operational costs in this case those payment processor fees? Because otherwise there should not be much difference.

No. OpenCollective collectives effectively replace having to operate your own nonprofit organization. So it includes all of the legal, administrative, and accounting costs of operating a nonprofit on behalf of the participating collectives.

I operate a collective which effectively operates as a 501c6 but I file no paperwork, OSC does for us.

> OpenCollective collectives effectively replace having to operate your own nonprofit organization.

> I operate a collective which effectively operates as a 501c6 but I file no paperwork, OSC does for us.

I think you might have meant Open Collective fiscal hosts replace having to operate a nonprofit organisation? Unless I'm parsing your statements wrong.

Yeah, I try not to get too in the weeds on terms when describing OpenCollective to people unaware. (Also the company, nonprofit, and biggest fiscal hosts have historically largely been run by the same folks.)

The core point is just that OpenCollective is not just a payment processor.

I think you missed my point. Or are you saying that if I pay with PayPal instead of Stripe, OpenCollective gets themselves more money?

Man PayPal skimming 20% is insane. Do they get away with it just because of name recognition?

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