Patreon Autopilot
Autopilot is an easy and automatic way to give your fans promotional offerings to drive your growth on Patreon.
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Autopilot is now automatically enabled for all creators. To change this setting, check the Autopilot section in the Promotions tab.
They’d previously sent an e-mail saying it would be activated on October 1, but I found that my Patreon already had it switched on. I turned it off.
Via Nick Heer:
As an extremely casual user, I do not love this; I think it is basically spam. I am sympathetic toward those who make their living with Patreon. I turned this off. If you have a Patreon creator page and missed this email, now you know.
And if you are a subscriber to anyone on Patreon and begin receiving begging emails next week, please be gracious. They might not be aware this feature was switched on.
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What's so hard about just collecting money, sending it to creators, and not getting caught in trying to sell user data, opt creators into automated spam, etc.?
I just don't get how you start Patreon and then don't understand your entire job is to run a nice, clean payment system without all the shenanigans creators are already trying to escape on other services.
@Anonymous it’s the standard enshittification cycle. First it was user friendly to gain traction. Then they start shifting to the business side. Soon they’ll shift to taking that value for themselves. And then someone comes along and says “man Patreon is so bloated and hostile, I think I’ll make a cleaner system” and the cycle continues.
The GNU community, known for its Free & Open Source Operating System GNU Linux and the GNU compiler collection gcc, also has a Free & Open Source Payment System called GNU Taler (www.taler.net) where payer stays anonymous, and which by design can never get enshittificated.
Already available in Switzerland at taler-ops.ch, soon in Germany at gls.de/taler.
