Amanda Palmer sent out a gigantic post last night about her follow up thoughts on the matter. To summarize she still thinks Patreon is one of the best places out there that enables decentralization of traditional business for artists, and lets artists bypass those gatekeepers and do business directly with their audience. Kind of. Really the most direct way is for an artist to set up their own site but then it silos communities that could benefit with being on the same platform, and consumers find comfort of having a middleman to be responsible for something.
So for the time being she’s going to stay on Patreon and hope they do something to make it right, but ultimately she’s loyal only to her fans and if they all decide to leave she’ll find an alternative. If she leaves Patreon will be losing one of their most visible creators so we’ll see how everything shakes out.
