4. Tidelift, Liberapay, Github Sponsors (and possibly others) are *extremely* skewed towards a "maintenance" view of independent maintainership. And, yeah, that's part of what I am doing (and I do use those platforms and hopefully will use more of them!) but Patreon is geared toward *creative work*, and structurally implies less of a strict orientation towards fixing bugs and responding to security reports or whatever.