• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    Interesting. AFAIK YouTube takes a 30% cut on donations.

    Twitch takes 50% of subs.

    Sounds like the self hosted person is the only one who actually made an improvement?

    I might be out of date on my numbers.

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      Only one who wrote about it was the one who went self-hosted, the rest didn’t talk about it. I would guess it ended up being the final straw, like “why direct people to X to back me instead of just promoting myself where they see me.” Especially if, as you say, the cut was so similar.

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        Yeah, and doing it on platform/in context means lower friction too. And sometimes has perks only available that way.