It's also bad that they don't encourage (or better, require) projects to release under free/libre/open terms. If the funding comes from patronage, then there's

It's also bad that they don't encourage (or better, require) projects to release under free/libre/open terms. If the funding comes from patronage, then there's no justification to still be restrictive. Also, Patreon themsleves are proprietary, have standard proprietary terms, and have VC-funders that expect a return which affects the potential future (unlikely to ever become a co-op or anything etc). And they strongly emphasize exclusive rewards which doesn't work well for fully free/libre/open projects (but at least they don't require such rewards). It's unfortunate but understandable why Patreon became dominant. That said, they could easily be worse. Key thing is that they aren't actually that good a solution to the inherent freerider problems in FLO works… it's still just unilateral donations after all, same as all membership support has been forever.