Comment by rmunn
16 days ago
You're quite right: that newfangled Patreon nonsense is a flash in the pan that will never catch on. There's no way anyone can be successful getting hundreds of people to pay them $5 (or even $1) per month. Ads are the only way to run the Internet.
What? It's 2026, not 2016? And Patreon has been running very successfully for over a decade? Huh. Whaddayaknow?
Patreon is not the issue.
1% of people covering most the costs for the other 99% of people is. Which is what we find when looking at patreon conversions