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David Revoy
🧵 Page 2/3: The Why
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🔗 The 'links :
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/davidrevoy
- Tipeee: https://en.tipeee.com/pepper-carrot/
- Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/davidrevoy/
- EveryLinks: https://www.davidrevoy.com/linktree/
And a quick FAQ on the blog: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1106/from-per-content-to-monthly-support
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WTL@davidrevoy Right now the Patreon link only shows /webcomic options. They're just changing those to monthly?
@WTL Good question 👍
The change will take effect on Patreon on 12 January. Until then, the page still shows 'per-content'.
This is because I have decided to give one month's notice to allow my patrons to adjust their budgets. (Don't worry though: I won't release the 'per-content' mechanism during this period.)
Numerfolt@davidrevoy Which of the 'links takes the smallest fee? Or does it not matter?
@Numerfolt Liberapay. This is because it doesn't have the 5% fee that Patreon and Tipeee take.
(To fund Liberapay, you have to support them... on Liberapay.)
(To fund Liberapay, you have to support them... on Liberapay.)
@davidrevoy Okay, I looked at their FAQ and basically there are the transaction fees that I pay? Like I send you 1€ per month and pay some cents so you can get the full €?
And I can donate to them too, which is nice.
And I can donate to them too, which is nice.
@Numerfolt Yes, this is exact. Thank you 
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:@davidrevoy @Numerfolt maybe I should just use liberapay instead like I do for my Fediverse instance.
Edit: I switched to Liberapay.
jeromeg@davidrevoy +1 on liberapay
@jeromeg 
💜 💜 💜 Thank you!
💜 💜 💜 Thank you!
Fred@davidrevoy if you have to stop all freelance work, does that mean, that you have to stop working with Framasoft and PeerTube?😬😱
@fr3d Unfortunately, that's one of the side effect; I wrote them an email in October about it. I'm still around as a volunteer contributor now, but it is clearly not the same time budget. 😔
@davidrevoy while it's perfectly understandable from the business side, it's still a pity. I'd pay extra just for securing the future of Peertube and Framasoft artwork. Apart from all your other great work. 🙂
Richard Hendricks@davidrevoy Thanks for all you do. Upped to $10. 🙂
@hendric 💜 Thank you a lot!
Tywèle@davidrevoy do you prefer monthly or yearly payments? And which site do you prefer to get paid on?
@Tywele Monthly or yearly? It certainly will depend on how much you pay in fees when you transfer money. If your bank charges high fees, it may be better to transfer money in one lump sum. If the fees are small or zero, monthly payments are great.
My preferred platform is Liberapay because the creator and admin are on Mastodon and the platform doesn't take 5%.
Thank you 💜
Paul Jewell@davidrevoy Hi David! I heard your interview on #HPR and really appreciate your stance on licencing and using Open Source tooling. Moreover, once I found your content, I think it's excellent. I had planned to go and subscribe but hadn't done so, so this thread is a great reminder - thank you! Having read your FAQ on your webpage, I will use liberapay, so you get as much of the donation as possible. Best of luck with the developing adventure!
@paul_j Thank you very much Paul for your words and your support! 💜
Notus@davidrevoy cheer up! We'll keep supporting your amazing and generous work. Your transparency is as always very much appreciated. One quick question: does this change will also apply on Liberapay? Youention Tipee and Patron, but if we support you through Liberapay on per-content basis, shall we switch to monthly?
@Notus Thank you very much for your support! 💜
Liberapay always prefered (from the start) to not include a per-content system. So, since I have the account (back in 2017) I receive 'weekly' donation on it.
Liberapay allows me to download a table with the donation amount and date, and so, with a little table-math I can convert this into a monthly thing and merge the names on the credit ( I'm trying to standardize this to https://www.peppercarrot.com/ext/credits-and-tiers.jpg )
Albert Westra@davidrevoy I will probably move over to librepay since you are the only creator I support on Patreon. I also like the idea of you getting my full support instead of partial payment.
I'm surprised that you didn't do month to month sooner cause of your new web comic. It's always daunting having to go from freelance, to your own thing, but if you have to step away for a bit due to burnout, don't be afraid to take a break. I'll still support you regardless.
@odysseywestra 💜 Thank you Albert!
Leah
@leah 😍 Thank you Leah! 💜
Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸@davidrevoy Why were you forced though? Do I miss something? 🤔
@Natanox Both Tipeee and Patreon have found that only 1% of their creators use the "per-creation" model. It seems they're streamlining their features to focus on more popular options.
Patreon initially planned to switch to the new model in Nov2025, but due to technical issues with a payment processor (Apple), they've postponed the deadline several times. Tipeee recently announced a Jan2026 deadline, so I've decided to move both platforms to the new monthly subscription model at the same time.
LucKey Productions@davidrevoy Maybe you could continue the per-creation model through other platforms like Odysee.com and/or itch.io?
@LucKeyProductions Yes, I thought about it, but it was too complex to move everyone to yet another service and maintain multiple release/support systems. Unifying all feels simpler in final to communicate about it.
@davidrevoy Understood.
Although you wouldn't have to move everyone over; just those that prefer supporting on a per-creation basis. And upload tools/scripts might be able to reduce the release process to a single command, although that would of course require investing some time in the form of research and implementation.
Although you wouldn't have to move everyone over; just those that prefer supporting on a per-creation basis. And upload tools/scripts might be able to reduce the release process to a single command, although that would of course require investing some time in the form of research and implementation.
Halla Rempt@davidrevoy I've always wanted to be a monthly donation patron for you.
@halla Thank you for your words and your support since the first episodes!
As you can imagine, this change affects me so much... That's why I'm releasing three comic pages to talk about it. 😅
Thank you for your words and your support since the first episodes!As you can imagine, this change affects me so much... That's why I'm releasing three comic pages to talk about it. 😅
Tina@halla @davidrevoy liberapay has been available for some time, just saying ...
ArneBab@davidrevoy You’re now switching to the model I had thought you’d be using already -- and never realized you were almost starving yourself because I didn’t check whether the 3€ per month I set aside in my budget for you were actually taken by Patreon.
(I expected that it was monthly, because how else should you have been able to afford putting in more and more work per episode?)
So expect no complaints from me but rather a big *thank you* for all the wonderful art you are creating!
❤️
Ivan Sagalaev 
@ArneBab @davidrevoy I was just as baffled to recently find out my last payment happened years ago! David explained, but I'm also happy to pay monthly, at I thought I was already doing that :-)
Emmanuel LEVEQUE 🔻⏚@davidrevoy ça m'as permis de me rendre compte que je n'étais plus mécène 😲
C'est corrigé !
C'est corrigé !
@demorose 🙏 Merci merci! 💜
@davidrevoy I signed up for the minimum for now: $1.00 a comic. I hope it's better than nothing. Your art is wonderful as are your stories and I appreciate your anti-genAI stance.
Kwlio Has Moved@davidrevoy Just signed up to support you via Tipeee but it sounds like Liberapay would be better so I'll change over to that.
The copies I ordered of The Potion of Flight and The Art of Pepper & Carrot are both fantastic, by the way!!!
@roguewolf 🙏 Thank you very much 💜 💜
rick
@rick Thank you!
Thank you!
rob los ricosI'm going to miss seeing your work.
@roblosricos a pessimistic prediction about 2026 for this switch to a monthly support model?
no money, no bank account...i scarcely even exist...
love your comics, by the way - especially the lemon-centered ones, with the goddess of life. goes very well with fantasy stuff i've been writing the past few years.
i hope one day, you will have a print edition available.
Jorge Toledo@davidrevoy I'm so happy to hear you say it worked!
To me, the monthly support just feels better even if it didn't make a difference financially. Instead of paying in return for something (which is a transaction), it feels like more like supporting the ongoing work and life of a great artist that has given so much to free/libre culture.
Ölbaum@davidrevoy I thought you had decided to stop doing Pepper & Carrot episodes a while back. Did you change your mind, or did I invent or misunderstand it?
@oscherler You didn't invitent: mid 2024, after problem in the production (cancelling an episode almost done) and during a long period of personal struggle and feeling down, I announced the end on a blog post.
That was a mistake. I wish I never published that blog-post.
I retracted, but the idea circulated well, way faster than the other blog-posts saying I wanted to continue the series.
I'm continuing Pepper&Carrot series, I love it too much. I just had a very bad time. Sorry for that.
@davidrevoy No need to be sorry. People change their mind, bands split and reunite. Being an artist is hard, frustrating at times.
I just hope you didn’t lose fans over this. But what kind of fan gets upset that something they love gets uncancelled?
ZZ Bottom
Pit Wenkin@davidrevoy you might want to change the denomination of your membership options on patreon. I see 5€/month in the overview of all my memberships, but when looking at your membership options it still shows as "x€ / episode".
I really enjoy the short stories you post here. I hope(expect) you will beginn posting them on patreon too, once the switch to monthly is done?
@pitwenkin Yes I saw it and I'm afraid I can't change it at the moment. Patreon will make the change on their side one month after I publicly announce it. It's all part of their policy for moving accounts around.
Just to let you know, I won't be posting the episode until the 12th of January. (the effective date for my first monthly) :)
I'll post something on Patreon to let my supporters know about it.
(edit: forgot to say, thank you )
VANTABlack@davidrevoy I am not in a position right now to financially support you, but I will try to spread the word about your work since I do enjoy your comics.
I hope you have the best of luck.