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This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] scsi@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah? That’s the OP’s point? That too much for North America consists of poorly-designed car-centric urban planning.

Talk to me about the public transit options - besides the one bus that runs from Kalgoorlie to Esperance - in Norseman, WA.

This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] scsi@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I think it is underappreciated how large the North American continent is with highly concentrated big cities, with vast portions of the land outside of larger cities without public transportation. This includes CA/US/MX as a general comment and not specifically this screenshot in question.

One may have "good" transit in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer but what about all those large spaces in between? It's 1.5hrs driving from Calgary To Red Deer with many 10k person cities in the middle, etc. These villages do not have transit systems - cars are how North Americans travel when outside of larger cities. It's why EV (lack of) range is a huge (non)selling point for some people depending where they live.

[Request] Support Fedecan donations via Liberapay in c/main@lemmy.ca
[–] scsi@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

We can take another look at this I think, but we’ve all been pretty busy lately so might take us a bit

Thanks in advance, it's a stretch goal. :) It's possible in the past when reviewed, Liberapay was in a different spot technically and wasn't a good fit due to (lack of) features or platform onboarding for organizations or whatnot. I'm not an active dev, but their discussions are public which may help the admin team review historical progress.

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[Request] Support Fedecan donations via Liberapay (lemmy.ca)
 

Hello, world! Recent lemm.ee migrant here moving into the neighborhood. My reference point is: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

I'd like to request Liberapay support for donations - generally speaking it's a zero-fees frontend for Stripe/Paypal/Credit cards and SEPA if in EU (not applicable here). Most questions are answered via their FAQ page: https://liberapay.com/about/faq

As a user, Liberapay allows me to organize (and get reminders!) of all my donations regardless of individual payment source, turn them on off add more money, etc. Their preferred method to keep the lowest fees is, for example a monthly donation, to charge an entire year's worth of donations at once, then dole it out post-fees monthly themselves. In a sense, solves the "no Stripe recurring payments" problem and it's optional for the user to choose (but recommended). The Liberapay platform survives by people donating (meaning, they "eat their own dogfood" and use the platform they built to survive)

Liberapay has worked out great for me as a user for years supporting various open source projects and collectives of all types. Thank you for considering.