Because if the site isn't making money, it's not sustainable. Unless musk wants to run it from his pocket money.

I think Royal and Desjardins charges

I have the basic $4 RBC account and it's free for me.

Free for Desjardins too.

Same, until I went to the US where nothing is standardized and somehow there's private companies worth billions that cover this precise use case. It's actually mind blowing.

The single banking system of Canada is a massive win in this regards

Interac is also a for-profit corporation. It's just owned by an association of banks. Zelle would be the equivalent in the US.

I don't think passkeys are for password manager users, but rather people who are tech illiterate. The problem we're seeing now is that passkeys are confusing as hell for non tech people, the target audience. A period of transition is bound to happen.

Doesn't open collective already do this though? You can fund specific goals iirc.

Sure but to my reading Polar has a much stronger “help maintainers become entrepreneurs” angle which seems like a novel approach to me.

The repo was committed to, yes, but not the linked PR. The linked PR hasn't been updated since December of last year.