Pondering on canceling my Flattr account due to their (too hard an) effort to...

Marcos Marado - 2014-06-16T20:34:58+0100 - Updated: 2014-06-16T20:34:58+0100

Pondering on canceling my Flattr account due to their (too hard an) effort to transfer any legal costs towards their users.

Thoughts? (If you didn't bother to read the TOS, don't bother leaving a comment)

Rui Seabra - 2014-06-16T20:50:22+0100

What are the alternatives? Seems like a small price to pay...

Marcos Marado - 2014-06-16T20:57:26+0100

The alternative, honestly, is simply to stop using it (for my use case, of course). I can even opt to a more rougher approach (as content generator) and have a "button/link" to a page simply saying something "want to thank me? I'm a musician, buy one of my records", and as a flatterer to donate in whichever other option there is, if any...

In other words: quitting Flattr wouldn't be any kind of big deal to me, and so my question really is "how small is 'the price to pay'"?

Rui Seabra - 2014-06-16T21:12:05+0100 - Updated: 2014-06-16T21:12:33+0100

Oh, as a receiver... I was thinking more from the point of view of a giver... obvious #goatse ref

Gil Gonçalves - 2014-06-17T06:38:49+0100

An alternative is gittip :)

Marcos Marado - 2014-06-17T09:12:27+0100

+Gil Gonçalves thanks, gittip is quite interesting, even if quite a different beast. The 'mandatory concurrency' makes it have a quite different use case, but it is indeed an interest tool to say "I love your work you're doing on X and I want to contribute to its ongoing funding".