Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhat’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.
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.
Fair enough
Patreon stopped being benevolent years ago when they changed their pricing model to exploit small donors more.
Send money directly using Monero. Avoid as much ‘overhead’ as possible.
I’d love to but it’s a chicken and egg thing. Regular people don’t understand bitcoin let alone monero. On top of that, you still have fees for converting from a currency to monero and again from monero to a currency, so there’s still a middle man :/
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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.
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I understand your view and sympathize deeply but there is a lot wrong in the world today and if I have to divert energy somewhere to try and change something, Patreon’s 10/90 split is at the bottom of the list for me at the moment. Regular working class people aren’t getting that good of a deal at the jobs they work at. I’m not even talking 90/10, just getting their .01% of the profits in a 1000 person org for their contribution would probably be life changing.
You are right but our reference points are different.
fistac0rpse@fedia.io 2 weeks 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