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A few years ago, GitHub introduced sponsorships that allowed anybody to make direct financial contributions to open source developers.

Now it's taking this concept a bit further by launching sponsor only repositories,

that is private repositories that only sponsors will get access to.

In some ways, that's pretty much in line with current trends.

Twitch, Substack, and similar platforms also incentivize subscriptions by offering something

extra to sponsors after all. and antithetical to its overall ethos.

And the Joe Rogan controversy has been a PR headache for Spotify in recent days,

but it doesn't seem to have yet prompted a sizable exit to rival streaming apps according to new App Store data.

Over the past several days Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and other musicians have pulled their

music from Spotify to protest the streamers relationship with

controversial podcaster Joe Roggan who's accused of using his platform to

spread COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation to his millions of fans.

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