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> Sponsors is about to hit Patreon At least for Patreon, they have a large enough user base, this won't hit them particularly hard.
by nordsieck 7y ago
> Sponsors is about to hit Patreon
At least for Patreon, they have a large enough user base, this won't hit them particularly hard.
- ljm 7y agoI’d imagine open source is just a small slice of the pie compared to the youtube/twitch/gaming audiences. And I imagine any project earning thousands on Patreon isn’t going to attempt to migrate all of that just to keep it in github.
- josteink 7y agoIt will probably only affect Patreon’s share of FOSS-projects starting today (and thus doesn't already have a Patreon). Of course if enough people start using GitHub Sponsors, end-users may make it a expectation/demand to be able to sponsor their favourite projects there if they are going to bother (much like users today won’t bother to sign up for a Patreon-competitor). And then it might start having a noticeable effect. That said, anecdotally speaking, today only one of my Patreon pledges are for software projects, and most are for youtubers. If that holds up for other people too, I suspect Patreon will be fine.