Bryan Lunduke heavily pushed locals.com as an alternative. His arguement, rightfully so, is that Patreon is painfully slow to use. Sadly he now seems to be mostly focused on moving people to locals, and not producing the same quality content as previously.

The creators I want to support are all on Patreon, so that’s the platform where I have account, but beyond setting up the subscription I new use the site. It’s a sad experience, slower than the Reddit redesign, it’s pointless to try to do anything meaningful on Patreon.

They need to invest in their site, but the valuation seem high for what they provide.