We were asked a few times about trying out Liberapay. It is different from other recurring funding platforms (such as Patreon and Tipeee) that it is managed by a non-profit and have lesser fees (from what I understand, there are payment processing fees, but they don’t add their own fees) since they fund themselves on their own platform (also the website itself is Free Software).
Though we liked the concept, until now we were a bit reluctant for a single reason: ZeMarmot is already on 2 platforms (we started before even knowing Liberapay), and more platforms mean more time spent to manage them all, time we prefer using to hack Free Software and draw/animate Libre Animation.
Nevertheless recently Patreon made fee policy changes which seem to anger the web 
(just search for it on your favorite web search engine, there are dozens of articles on the topic) and as most Patreon projects, we lost many patrons (at time of writing, 20 patrons for $80.63 of pledge left in 4 days, more than 10% the patronage received from this platform!).
So we decided to give Liberapay a try. If you like ZeMarmot project, and our contributions to GIMP, then feel free to fund us at:
» ZeMarmot Liberapay page «
https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/
Main difference with other platforms:
- both EUR (€) and USD ($) donations are accepted, which is cool;
- there are no news system so one has to get them oneself (for instance reading the project blog or twitter);
- all patrons are fully anonymous (which means they won’t appear in credits of the movie);
- localization is supported (right now our page is only in English, but we will make a French version soon!).
Now this is just another platform, we are not abandoning Patreon and Tipeee. Don’t feel like you have to move your patronage to Liberapay if you don’t want to. From now on, this will just be one more option.
Finally we remind that ZeMarmot project is fully managed by a non-profit registered in France, LILA. This means there are also other means to support the project, for instance with direct bank transfers (most European banks allow monthly bank transfers without any fees, so if you are in the EU, this may be the best solution), or Paypal (though for very small amounts, fees are quite expensive, they are quite ok for most donations), etc. To see the full list of ways to fund LILA, hence ZeMarmot and GIMP: https://libreart.info/en/donate
I just switched from Patreon to Liberapay.
Used the opportunity to increase from 1 to 2 Eur per month.
Greetings
Arne
Cool, thanks! 🙂