Apple is not charging 60% more. That is patreon. How this drivel spreads is beyond me. Apple charges 30%. This has been pretty fucking consistent for a decade. Patreon is telling creators to raise their prices because they (patreon) aren’t going to take the loss, they’re going to force it on their userbase. Patreon could easily just eat the 30% or even 15%, but that would cost them profits so they don’t. And then they claim Apple is costing users a 60% price increase. Fucking ridiculous.

[–] soupuos@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

If they're (Patreon) eating 30%, wouldn't they lose money per transaction? I assume they take less than 30% of each subscription currently.

[–] Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are mistaken there. 60% increase means that patreon gets just as much as they get now, because 60/160 is approx 30%.

Also, just eating 30% margin is absolutely a problem and far from easy

[–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’m not mistaken. Even Patreon doesn’t claim the apple change will cost 60%. https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/11111747095181-Creator-fees-overview

And 60% of 160 is almost 40%, nice rounding down there to make your numbers sound better. And what the fuck does that have to do with anything anyways??? 30% of 100 is 30%. I’m saying that the creators shouldn’t have to do anything.

Why does Patreon even have a fucking app!? There’s no need for it at all. This ridiculous rise of companies creating useless apps just so they can harvest your info in addition to the info they’re already harvesting from you just signing up.