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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by duskwuff on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:49AM (#19269726)
Apple and Google provide significant added value in their app stores: distribution, discoverability, licensing, testing (at least in Apple's case)... etc.

Patreon is not that. At its heart, it's primarily a service for collecting donations. There is some content hosting, but that's kind of a secondary feature.

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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by erikpukinskis on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:08PM (#19274605)
I seriously doubt Apple’s cost to administer the App Store is double digit percentages of revenue.

The 30% is a tithing to Apple for creating iPhone in the first place.

Patreon could sort of justify the same thing. Their real product is just the idea that anyone could be a monthly patron at all. That’s worth a LOT to creators. People didn’t think that way before Patreon.

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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by kosievdmerwe on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:04AM (#19270264)
What content can you host on Patreon? I only really have experience with authors and text is cheap to host. Can you host video?
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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by makomk on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:01AM (#19270496)
Nope, Patreon doesn't host video. Generally I think people upload their Patreon-exclusive videos to YouTube as unlisted and use that as a free hosting service.
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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by corobo on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:22AM (#19270584)
Video no, but you can host audio. They have functionality that lets you set up a patron-exclusive podcast for example
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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by duskwuff on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:26PM (#19273050)
Text and images. It's pretty basic, mostly meant as a way for project creators to provide updates on what they've been doing.
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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by quadrangle on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:51PM (#19273321)
Patreon is actually largely a paywall-service. It's about collecting donations AND tying that to accessing paywalled stuff.
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