Yeah, I believe Chris too and fully support the response of "fuck Patreon," I just try to be epistemically conservative when talking to someone who seems likely to be hostile to how I'm inclined to see a given issue so that we can focus on things that we can agree on (like the content of the message).

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Patreon are dumbasses if they think that people who are pirating one creator aren't also supporting other creators. It's a huge fucking mistake to interfere in piracy at an individual-creator level because pissed off people will stop using the entire platform over one of those interferences.

They should focus their piracy-related efforts on things affecting the whole platform instead. Taking down kimono.party wouldn't cause people to cancel their subscriptions by comparison. Individual level stuff is going to lose them money where sitewide stuff would not. Sitewide stuff is just more effort and harder though so some dumbasses at the company think they're doing the right thing by going after things at the individual creator level. They're going to learn the hard way that this generates significantly more losses than it produces in gains. If I know how to pirate one creator and I'm pissed off, I know how to pirate ALL creators.

They're being massive dipshits.