Brave to open one of these now after the big patreon purge and exodus. A genuine good luck to you, I hope you do well with it. (b^_^)b

I'm a little out of the loop, what happened with Patreon??

A while back Patreon banned a youtuber with a HUGE following without any warning or strike or anything. He hadn't violated any of their ToS but he had a hate brigade of both white supremicists and rabid SJWs after him, so they mass reported him and Patreon made up an excuse to ban him. Lots of patrons, angry about the injustice, left the platform. At the same time some big creators like Sam Harris were unhappy about what Patreon had done too, so they left the platform more or less taking their patrons with them, causing a lot of the creators still on it to bleed revenue. (Sam Harris was one of the top 5 or top 10 earners on Patreon if I remember right.)
Not long after (while the dumpster was still on fire) one creator still on it managed to get in touch with Patreon themselves to ask them about their Rules/ToS to make clear what was and wasn't allowed and ask they why they violated their own rules in banning the original guy, which is what started the fire. The Patreon spokewoman's answers were...troubling to say they least. The long and short of it is she said "our rules are subjective, we'll ban content we think is bad. We'll know it when we see it". (The person who did this took a transcript of the conversation and made a video about it here, you can check it out for yourself if you like). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7hvZee-PQ

A large chunk of the people fleeing Patreon found their way to a site called SubscribeStar, which was still very small, but had been around for a year or so at this point. Mysteriously, as soon as people fleeing Patreon decided to settle there PayPal, who had been a payment option on SubscribeStar, decided they weren't going to do business with them anymore and pulled their support from SubscribeStar. This obviously stunk of foul play, so now a few lawyers, one with a Youtube presence who got the ball rolling, is filing an anti-trust complaint with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) against Patreon and PayPal for colluding to take down a competitor (SubscribeStar).

Just recently, maybe a month back now, Patreon had to come out on their Twitter because they had not been paying out to some of their creators like they were supposed to. They said they were having financial issues, and problems with their payment server, so people were not getting their money from their patrons every month. Obviously what good is an income platform if you can't even get your money from them reliably.
So the long and short of it is trust in Patreon is extremely low, they've staunched the massive bleed but are still trickling users. They're kind of going the way of Facebook now, slowly dying.

Looking into it from what you mentioned... it looks like they were just culling the alt-right trash.
I don't see any issues with that.

It also looks like paypal discontinued with subscriberstar because the above mentioned had pushed them all to scatter to a new option to spread hate.
All that's really happening is people are weeding out the safe spaces for bigotry and ripping it up from the roots.

The biggest issue mentioned is just the note about them not getting the money out, but I'm struggling to find anything on that?
If you have a screencap or something you could send that would be great, I'm working on starting my own patreon and this kinda thing would be important to know.

Except that the guy they banned is not "alt-right" for one. He's a liberal. As were most of the people who left on principal after it happened (Sam Harris, Dave Ruben, and others are all classical liberals). You don't get to just slap that label on someone because you disagree with them. But based on your response, maybe your the kind of left wing authoritarian who belongs on Patreon. I just hope it doesn't bite you in the a$$ when it's your turn to face the monster you're creating.

Here's the twitter comment they made on it: https://twitter.com/Patreon/status/.....71287020871680
Be wary because they also plan on overhauling their fees and, from the look of things, increasing them (5% is already ridiculous, you can set up a direct paypal payment model for their 3%). https://blog.patreon.com/not-rollin.....ut-fees-change

The political compass is so skewed right now because of increasing polarization that labeles for it are basically useless anyway. Regardless, they also banned Yiannopoulos who's actively part of a hate group so I don't know what you expect me to think here.

Also 5% is hardly ridiculous considering they handle the technical end of things setting up and editing payments of each Patreon. Steam takes 30% and people are still willing to sell games on there.

Apologies cercat for getting into this on your journal.

You have my support. Sadly I cannot give it through finances, so it's pretty worthless, but I do really enjoy seeing uploads from you. I might pitch in some month for wallpapers and more, though, when I can save a bit. Been really cutting back on spending lately because I needed to buy travel arrangements for a trip to see the GF and help her get her life in order a bit.

Hey no worries dude! I appreciate the thoughts