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Patreon Lays Off 20% of Its Workforce (www.patreon.com)
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[–] slowclap@social.smplfi.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@artyom Are you saying that creators should drop patronage platforms entirely and just request direct transfers from Zelle?

Because any patronage platform is commercial and wouldn’t be able to use Zelle. Zelle also can’t support recurring billing so subscriptions wouldn’t work.

If you’re saying creators should drop patronage platforms entirely, there’s an argument for that, but I think it would introduce a lot of other issues at any decent scale.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Are you saying that creators should drop patronage platforms entirely and just request direct transfers from Zelle?

Correct

Zelle also can’t support recurring billing so subscriptions wouldn’t work.

It actually can.

I think it would introduce a lot of other issues at any decent scale.

I don't see any "other issues" that could possibly be bigger than the existing ones.