• Mbourgon everywhere
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    -316 days ago

    It’s also PATREON fucking up. I’ve got a couple people i follow that are moving to Ghost as a hedge.

    • @TheKingBee
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      16 days ago

      ghost?

      nm I looked it up myself.

      Why aren’t more people on ghost? It’s a stupid name for what it does, but the $9 a month and keeping the rest is a great deal if you have more than a handful of subscribers.

      • @[email protected]
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        316 days ago

        Ghost managed hosting gets more expensive as you get more subscribers, I don’t think Patreon does. You also have to set up the payments processor yourself (usually Stripe), and if you self-host, you need to set up an email service like Mailchimp. Ghost also has much more basic community features than Patreon, and doesn’t do per-user RSS feeds, so stuff like subscriber-only podcasts are more difficult.

    • Mbourgon everywhere
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      111 days ago

      Since I got downvoted on this - among other things, Patreon is removing the “per post” subscription model. One of the people I follow sent: “This is the second time in as many years that Patreon has screwed up my business”