Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%
I don't understand why people are acting like this is ridiculous and will obviously fail. 30% is the same cut that Apple and Google take for everything that goes through their app stores, including all in-app purchases. It's the same cut that Steam takes. It's the same cut that YouTube takes for channel membership. Twitch takes an even larger cut: 50% from subscriptions. It's extremely well-established that people are comfortable with platforms taking that large of a portion.<p>Patreon is the outlier, and they're dropping hints now that it probably isn't going to last: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/crowd-funding-platform-patreon-announces-it-will-pay-out-half-a-billion-dollars-to-content-creators-in-2019.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/crowd-funding-platform-patre...</a>