Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by liability on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:37AM (#19269183)

This seems like the sort of thing that could only move forward at a company like Facebook. If this were proposed as an independent business, it would be laughed out of the room.

Of course Facebook has enough loyal users that they might actually be able to make this work..

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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by vntok on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:25AM (#19269636)

Why would it be laughed out of the room?

FYI, here's the current top comment in this very thread:

> 30% is the same cut that Apple and Google take for everything that goes through their app stores, including all in-app purchases. It's the same cut that Steam takes. It's the same cut that YouTube takes for channel membership. Twitch takes an even larger cut: 50% from subscriptions. It's extremely well-established that people are comfortable with platforms taking that large of a portion.

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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by AlexandrB on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:01AM (#19271719)

Because a new company would have nothing to offer for that 30% that Patreon doesn't have. Facebook has an audience.

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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by moonrobin on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:58AM (#19269269)

It's interesting what happens when there's such a massive user base when Pateron's entire user base (~5M pledges) is less than a fraction of a percentage of FB's users. Albeit the rate of conversion is taken out of account, but we're still talking about differences in orders of magnitude.

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