If Blender had a patreon or coffee or kofi, I would happily subscribe to something like $3/month. I know artists that have tens of thousands of paid subscribers and their minimal plan is $3. Blender could achieve hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers eventually imo. To make things interesting, they could release prebuilt binaries of some subprojects like NPR fork, only to subscribers, also they could do partnership and paid plugin giveaways every month to subscribers. It just needs a bit of dedicated SMM work. One-time donations just don't hit the same. I do those maybe once a year or two, and don't do another one until I get the feeling "it's been a while".

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wrong Blender, my friend...

[–] hisao@ani.social 3 points 5 days ago

I'm talking about 3d software one, and author obviously talks about that one too.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.

I joined my instance's patreon and donate $1 / month. I know it is not a lot, but so far the admin says he is doing fine on cash flow, should that change I will up my donation if able.

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