The coderberg fork was linked directly to the main strawberry page where the source code is and it's pretty obvious the downloads were just the same as any subscriber executables.

I highly doubt the story that the person behind the fork was given binaries for testing. My guess is it was just a subscriber sharing their downloaded executables.

The whole malware argument the creator made is fear mongering.

Its odd he charges $7/month for subscribers on Patreon but its only $5 if you pay via Kofi.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Patreon takes a 20% cut of your income right off the bat. This is with the 8% platform fee option, and when you stack it on top of the payment processing fees, that's what it comes out to be.

kofi is a bit lower but I don't know the details there.

But it makes sense to pass those fees on to the subscribers.

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that's kind of what I figured but not sure why a customer would just choose the more expensive option.

[–] bss03 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's easier for me to us Patreon, because I'm already supporting a few other people/organizations there.

I've never used Ko-fi for a subscription.

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Fair enough. I'm cheap so I'd quibble over the extra $2/month 😂

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