My EU based alternative to #Patreon and #PayPal for donations is #Liberapay @Liberapay. They are in France, so under GDPR, Open Source, non-profit, they don't sell your data, don't take a cut but rely on donations instead and can do direct debit via SEPA/IBAN, so IMHO a Very Much Good Enough solution :) My yearly donations to #Forgejo and #Makertube are there now. (yes, they also support Stripe and Paypal for payments, but I prefer SEPA/IBAN to keep everything here ;)

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Liberapay

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I recently opened a #Patreon page! Will be uploading content regularly on there! If you like my work, please feel free to swing by!

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This is frustrating. I'm exploring options to #crowdfund for my feature film, but I live in the wrong continent. No platform accepts creators from Uganda/Africa, so I'm stuck with #patreon and ko-fi and the like. I guess my best option now is to create a page on my website and some kind of form to collect details of backers and a button for them to make a donation to the project. Not fun, since I don't have a huge following 😭

UPDATE: I gathered my thoughts about this

dilmandila.com/the-plight-of-a…

The Plight of African Filmmakers Seeking Film Funds

As I researched crowdfunding options for my next feature film, Big Tree, it pissed me off to discover that all major platforms, including kickstarter, backerkit, and indiegogo, allow creators only …

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