It also does nothing at all to solve the accountability issues of traditional crowdfunding, but that’s a hard problem. I wouldn’t even mention it if they hadn’t brought it up in the introduction.
Yes, crowdfunding is mostly based on trust, not accountability. But a service that’s funded continuously over time (the Snowdrift.coop model) ought to be inherently more accountable than a single campaign/project.
Yes, crowdfunding is mostly based on trust, not accountability. But a service that’s funded continuously over time (the Snowdrift.coop model) ought to be inherently more accountable than a single campaign/project.
Yeah, it’s more accountable than Kickstarter funding, but not more accountable than Patreon funding.