It could also provide an alternative to patreon’s usual communities for patrons (aka discord lol)
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key@lemmy.keychat.org 3 months agoI imagine they’d be eyeing things like having a partnership with patreon so patrons get access to an exclusive subreddit at a certain tier (with reddit getting some cut). Not saying patreon specifically would go for that but I imagine that type of monetization is what they’d be mostly considering. Or maybe a better example would be something in the realm of substack. Paying directly for access is hard to get people to go for without a third party with financial incentive to drive content.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 3 months ago
zhunk@beehaw.org 3 months ago
There are private/paywalled Discord servers and forums out there, too, so this could replace some of those. I think the Reddit format is better than a lot of alternatives, so I don’t actually hate this idea.