Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages. How is this possible? Enshittification.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 months ago

    can’t they just make it free and require membership to be purchased on the web? In other words don’t allow membership to be purchased in the app?

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      4 months ago

      Yes. Many apps already do this. There is some specific wording you have to use since Apple doesn’t like when you do that, but yes you can.

      • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        more or less you can’t link people to your site to purchase membership directly from the app. They have to visit the site themselves