Which I think is great! However, I’ve been donating $5/month for years and they’re still trying to charge me $1.99/month. I feel like supporters should be exempt from the fee.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    Donations are donations. You knowingly get nothing in return.
    No reason not to do both.

        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          It’s got nothing to do with the banks. All the credit card processors (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) charge fees to retailers. Some times it’s a flat amount per charge, other times it’s a percentage.

          Realy though in this case that might not matter so much, as Google and Apple are in the middle, charging Signal 15-30%.

            • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
              4·
              2 days ago

              Yes. I just found out Google and Apple don’t take a cut of donations to non-profits. But since this is a subscription for an actual product instead of a donation, it would be subject to their 15-30%. That is most likely the reason they don’t just give backup services to donors.

          • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            Here in all banks card payments are free, as it’s included in your monthly plan. But you have to pay for transfer and for cash withdrawal. Mine is just a small a local bank in a European country. But banking is very different here from the US (from your comment history I guess you are from America), e.g. credit cards are rare, everyone have debit cards, cheque payments are non-existent.

        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yes 2 charges would be 2 fees. But I did forget that Google and Apple are in the middle charging their 15-30%. So that might not matter.

          • Unrelated@feddit.nlEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Do Apple and Google not have policies in place that don’t take a charge on donations?

            • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              I don’t know…

              Seems they do. But that wouldn’t apply to the Backup subscription. That may be the reason they don’t just automatically give it to recouring donors.