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nspkron Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform

I don't see any reason why Liberapay couldn't deploy a recurring donation system like Patreon's.

nspkron Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

So what? If Liberapay was based in the US, they could choose to continue hosting you if they wanted to. In the EU, they don't have that option.

nspkron Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

Many countries in the EU have blasphemy laws and the European Court of Human Rights says they are okay:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...

If someone criticised Jesus Christ in their podcast (for example), they would be putting Liberapay at risk. I don't believe Liberapay would allow that, so they'd just ban the user. That's what makes Liberapay a risky option.

nspkron Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose

I've been using them for years now.

nspkron Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose

>Twitter’s statuses lookup API endpoint allows for a total of 1,200 API calls every 15 minutes. Each call allows the user to pass 100 ids for a total of 120,000 id requests every 15 minutes using both APP auth [...]

Use the secret consumer keys from Twitter to bypass these limits: https://gist.github.com/shobotch/5160017