I always tell my kids about survival jobs. Youtube, Twitch, being an artist are all gigs. Most of these people have another job. Even professional actors have a job than acting, same as authors.
And don’t forget that sometimes websites can randomly close your account without warning and reason given. They will just say you violated their terms of use without telling you what you did.
We need to get rid of gatekeepers!
Stop ducking whining about it and go get a job. You act like they’re aren’t other platforms you could easily jump into, or after 10 years maybe just ask for donations in a website you can create in about a week, or an hour if your already know how to build a website and some need to learn how to do that
It’s like the vast majority of people haven’t had to deal with losing stable income their whole lives
Go touch grass you entitled… Something
“Hey guys come catch all my new videos on my own website”
Put the old stuff on YouTube, FB, insta, tiktok, and encourage traffic to your site.
Profit.
Pretty much, allows you to set your own content policy really, as long as you don’t break laws the only risk then is for the domain name. Not sure what you would have to do for most domain registrars to drop your domain.
You trying to ask creators to create stuff? Crazy talk. That’s so 2006.
And this is why platforms are nice yet cutting the middle man is important. There was a time before walled gardens.
You kinda need a payment processor unless you want people to start mailing cash in the post.
Before people ruined it this was one of the ideas behind crypto
If nothing else it’s a bit of a faff. But again you’d need someone to convert it to fiat for it to be useful in every day life, which isn’t super removed from a payment processor. It’s pretty much difficult to get away from a middleman somewhere.
The idea is it becomes the fiat
Direct bank transfers. Those are a thing.
p.s
They commented, I replied. Is it that exotheric of an idea? I can transfer money anywhere I want, to any bank account. You want to support someone, send them money directly.
There was a world before PayPal.
That’s still a payment processor; just now you’ve completely deanonimized both parties.
What is this? Mafia? If you have my account number that is it. You can send me money but you can’t get anything out of it.
Widely sharing your bank details isn’t usually considered a great idea.
My bank number account is a string of numbers. Besides the country and bank entity code, no other information can be obtained and no movements can be ordered on it by a non titular.
Money can be transfered in but the account can’t be moved by anyone but the titular.
You’d be happy to post it on Lemmy with any required routing information?
If I was a creator of content, looking to have a direct way for people to support me, yes.
Are you interested in sponsoring my idiocy? Save your hard earned income; I wouldn’t pay myself.
A simple no would’ve done.
tl;dw? Watched the first several minutes but still not even sure what it’s about.
they’re removing creators’ ability to charge per creation and forcing them to charge only via monthly subscription.
It’s an absolutely dick move by Patreon.
I guess Patreon figure it will make them as a platform more money, because people tend to forget about subscriptions and just let them keep going.
But it’s awful for creators who release less frequently, because people will start to feel cheated when months go by and they don’t get anything. And I’m sure the creators won’t enjoy that pressure either.
It’s like Patreon are cracking the whip, telling creators “Work faster, you have to justify your monthly subscription now!”
Assholes.
Wow, that’s sure gonna fuck a lot of creator that put out content once every few months.
Interesting, I wonder why they would do that…
More stable revenue for the shareholders maybe
I wondered too. It was explained here: https://lemmy.world/post/28040267
They don’t really seem to know for sure either. I’d heard about the Apple issue a long time ago so it’s curious that’s it’s being brought up now.
Obligatory Fuck Apple.
True. I should have said that there was enough information there to satisfy my interest in the matter. Which was small.
it must be really hard to google “patreon alternative”
Onlyfans!
Indeed. She doesn’t talk about alternatives in this video, she hasn’t made other videos talking about alternatives, hasn’t setup her own website etc…
I’m not sure how she could pay her bills of she didn’t have advice from randos on the internet…
I mean you could add this suggestion under that video, so that she sees it right?
