only make arbitrary payments to me based on nothing but a whim.
How is that different from the current situation? For most people, supporting indie artists is already an optional thing, those using Patreon could cancel “on a whim” as well, no?
based on the number of times an artist gets played
Doesn’t that create a huge skew towards the pop-stars, who are already making money through other means (touring) anyway?
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Do you really compare someone cancelling their pateron and a company taking all the money that customers have paid from the artists they want to support?
Sure, the payment would be skewed, but that is easily remidied by not having pop music on the plattform.
rglullis@communick.news 7 months ago
I think you misunderstood. What I mean is that the customer will choose how much of their allocated budget goes to each artist.
grant@toast.ooo 7 months ago
I would definitely reword your original post, it’s very misleading with how it’s worded now
(Eg “How I feel” -> “how individual users feel”)
rglullis@communick.news 7 months ago
The whole paragraph starts with “as a backer”. I can rewrite it, but to be honest it’s not that difficult to comprehend it as is.