I understand that you think writers shouldn’t accept donations for their essays, but I personally don’t see an issue with it, so I have no reason to move to another platform. Same as I have no reason to make raddle federated because you think a site automatically pushing user data to external servers where it can never be deleted is ideologically desirable. We have different needs and desires.
I’m not an expert on blogging, but NoBlogs.org seems like a great alternative to patreon.
I understand that you think writers shouldn’t accept donations for their essays, but I personally don’t see an issue with it, so I have no reason to move to another platform. Same as I have no reason to make raddle federated because you think a site automatically pushing user data to external servers where it can never be deleted is ideologically desirable. We have different needs and desires.