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

Last time this came up Patreon simply allowed the creators to charge the commission directly on top of the price for non apple users, or eat the 30% loss. So everyone not using iOS would pay, say, $5/month, iOS users would pay $5+30%. Hope they retain that option.

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applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Your math is wrong. If you want the creator to still get $5 with apple stealing 30% you would need to pay ~43% extra.

$5/0.7 = $7.14

1/0.7 = 1.42857

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- lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  I don’t remember the math, there was a button to charge apple users more so we got what we were supposed to
  
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ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ya a few apps already do this. YouTube premium does for sure and I have heard a few others doing so.

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FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s actually a good solution

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- panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Is it? Previously this was considered tips
  
  Now it’s 30% for what? Running a payment gateway and hiding an unsubscribe button deep in the App Store UI.
  
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- lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, I remember cause my Patreon account asked me what I wanted to do about apple trying to steal my money
  
  p.s. I never push Patreon so have no subs lol
  
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