I tried using Tauri (would be very cool), but sadly they have severe performance issues on Linux which make an app like Kando impossible at the moment.
Given the level of technological proficiency of people interested in this project, why Patreon tough? A platform that carries all the fees back to the person you're trying to support and puts their own cut on top for basically hosting a few iframes? Is this really the best way to provide some monthly income? I
I want people to pick whatever platform they are comfortable with, and Patreon is very popular, so I offer both. But yes, in principle GitHub sponsors should have lower overhead (I'll have to wait until I get income from both to see exactly how it works out after the intermediaries involved).
Congratulations on the current state of the project, it seems very promising. Do you plan on having some fallback to websockets for the realtime database? The thing about google is that it can be viable to request getting it whitelisted on corporate firewalls.