TL;DR: If you’re moving from Patreon, please at least look at Tipee instead of SubscribeStar. everything is horrible.

This time, it seems that #Patreon actually means it when it wants to disable per-creation billing. Not that surprising, since they’ve tried before, with explanations which clearly show they don’t understand that their business model is aggregating small payments to minimize transaction fees, and have publicly said that they’d “rather have … fewer, but truly life-changed creators rather than a lot of creators making a few dollars“. So they actively dislike most of their users. They just choose to blame Apple this time, when neither me nor the creators I support there have ever used the Apple Store to handle Patreon payments.

So now, creators and their supporters are scrambling to find an alternative platform. Some have moved to #SubscribeStar, which seems to be the proverbial Nazi bar, and is thus not getting any of my money.

I’ve suggested #Tipee to some creators, but to my knowledge none has even looked at it. Even though it says the right things and explicitly allows per-creation billing.

I know @davidrevoy uses Tipee - do you have a short summary of your experience using it?

Mon arrivée sur Tipeee

https://peertube.pcservice46.fr/w/szuHwQdmT87gYk4fKgPcc4

[blog] Expérimentations et usages autour du financement participatif https://arthur.lutz.im/blog/2020/09/21/experimentations-et-usages-autour-du-financement-participatif/

#crowdfunding #financementparticipatif #patreon #flattr #tipee #helloasso #liberapay #opencollective

Pour info, soit #Tipee s'est fait pirater sa base d'utilisateurs, soit ils la transmettent à des gens peu recommandables.

En tout cas mon adresse xx+tipeee@xxx se fait bien spammer par des tentatives d'extorsion.