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But once past initial audience discovery, the recurrent billing of patronage donations is just pure service. So logically creators should only use FB for acces
by mamborambo 8y ago
But once past initial audience discovery, the recurrent billing of patronage donations is just pure service.
So logically creators should only use FB for access to new audience, build a relationship with the newly acquired audience, and pivot to direct billing or Patreon for recurrent collection.
- pavlov 8y agoBy the same logic, YouTube creators should only use YT to build an audience, then switch to hosting their own videos. Yet they want to remain on the platform.
- stale2002 8y agoVideo hosting costs a lot of money. Sending an API request, to the credit card company, to bill the monthly payment, does not cost a lot of money. Getting your audience to switch platforms for the monthly payments is a compartively easy thing to do, compared to setting up your own video hosting site.
- pavlov 8y agoMore to the point, neither is very easy to do in practice.
- hrktb 8y agoThat's a move some creators are at least seriously preparing for. And building a patreon user base is a good step for that.