Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with Patreon? I looked up their fees and it may be more complicated but they advertise a 10% fee. That seems pretty reasonable considering the services they offer.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How is 10% reasonable. They just transfer money from A to B while showing people some static html text about the options. They basically do nothing.

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    • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t say these services are nothing. Are they worth 10%? Eh.

      A 90/10 split for content creators who otherwise wouldn’t know how to build and operate their own platform doesn’t sound like a terrible deal. It’s not amazing but if there were better options, Patreon may not be so popular.

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      • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s always getting fleeced with you guys and being fine with slightly less fleecing, when that is just a way to entice and reach a point where they can monopolize the market and fleece like the big dogs.

        And then a new company with slightly less fleecing appears, with board members from previous company.

        Rinse and repeat.

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    • fistac0rpse@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      static HTML text, and all of the posts, and images, and audio that they host. not saying that deserves 10% but saying that they do nothing other than payment processing is disingenuous

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  • Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They are an American tech company.

    From what I remember, they did try to heavily raise fees and worsen the experience on their platform “my next trillion users … life changing blah blah .. my ARPU”, but then backed off when they got public pushback. They will do it again when they think they can get away with it.

    Better to use something like liberapay.

    That’s what I use to donate to Piefed development and I’ve been meaning try and pitch this platform to Patreon list.

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    • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fair enough

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