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by anotherhue 878 days ago
CALL TO ACTION

Go to your Patreon account, for any active memberships click 'Send Message'. Send something along these lines:

Hello, apologies for the disruption but I'm wondering if you would consider reaching out to your Patreon representative and voicing your feelings on their recent corporate behaviour, which I'm sure you'll find disagreeable

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/patreon-attacks-...

If it's possible to continue supporting you on another platform I would much prefer to do that.

Thanks as ever for your work.
1 comments
MobiusHorizons 878 days ago
Respectfully I don’t think that is very productive. I’m not a fan of this lawsuit or patreon’s behavior either, but I think Patreon has to fight this in some way or risk going bankrupt.

If this really is an existential threat to the company they aren’t going to listen no matter how many creators talk to them about it. I think what patreon needs is some solution where they admit using the tracking pixel on those pages was bad (and stop) without giving bankrupt.

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anotherhue 878 days ago
No doubt they'll sell us all out to survive, but we needn't be supportive of that.

If the creators you support are unaware of this, which is likely, this will encourage them to diversify their patronage-system. In some highly-improbable universe this will cause Patreon to go bust before they get a chance to affect the law which is still a win for the rest of us.

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