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There should be no middle men. Only a direct P2P model will truly benefit everyone.
by kareldonk 9y ago
There should be no middle men. Only a direct P2P model will truly benefit everyone.
- Veratyr 9y agoI disagree. There are shared services that Patreon provides that would be a pain for creators: - Payment processing: Patreon consolidates all payments under one gateway account so fees are low for everyone. - Support: What happens if the payment fails? Creators don't want to deal with that mess every month, it's less time to do useful stuff. - Abuse handling: Patreon can deal with spam comments and the like. - Service hosting: They integrate all this stuff in one place that creators don't have to host themselves. - Consolidated management for Patrons: As a subscriber it's nice to see all the stuff I'm supporting and how much I'm paying for it in one place.
- WesleyLivesay 9y agoI would also like to add Ease of Use to your list. I have had to help several of my Patrons with basic tech support issues, like setting up RSS feeds in their podcast app. And I doubt that they would be able/comfortable with working with a service that is not as easy and straight forward as Patreon.
- zanny 9y agoThe only way to make it purely P2P is to make it non fiat based. And when you try to do that, you have suddenly alienated 99% of your potential audience of supporters.