I’ve been learning more about Patreon recently, and it seems to be a half-decent platform that creators find genuinely appealing.
I don’t agree with all the points here, but I’m willing to hear them out and see what they come up with.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/patreon-algorithms-social-media-internet.html
The Fediverse has some limitations around creator-made content, and maybe something like Patreon can fill in those gaps? At least until if / when they enshitify…























@JoYo@lemmy.ml, I’d be curious if you did the same experiment but with a
[Free public access]tag in the title, or something similar.I would also like to support non-google / non-ad-revenue-fueled platforms when I can. Seems like a lot of people might not know that they had free access to it