What frustrates me about GitHub is that GitHub Sponsors does not provide controls for associating a users funding amount with anything. Say I want to sell support: I should be able to associate a users sponsorship level with their capability to ask questions, i.e. sponsor my project for $X grants you N questions. GitHub provides no mechanism for this. Codeberg has an opportunity here to one-up GitHub by providing the tools maintainers need to monetize their work. Just imagine being able to sell closed-source licenses for copyleft software right from the interface.
This is one of the biggest problems in OSS imo. I don't think codeberg built this with the sponsorship as the first thing in mind, which means I only see codeberg's own org and own projects asking for funding / maintenance help.
To truly fix open source we need a platform that makes maintaining (and potentially merging similar projects) a breeze. And make sponsorship simple, and make it work. Otherwise new projects will keep popping up on new platforms, and go stale instantly once the maintainer runs out of the passion fuel.
