This is copied from the pinned post for Molly Southerden‘s Patreon. Molly is an especially good human in addition to being a glass artist.

Please please please read this before signing up for my Patreon channel!

The Apple monopoly has decided that they just aren’t showing enough profitability yet, (%?&!) and they’ve decided to wave their corporate overlord energy around by tussling with Patreon. What sucks is that if Patreon wants (or needs, let’s be real, because we all are capitalism’s pawns on some level) for their app to be in the App Store, they have to agree to Apple’s TOS.

Those TOS will take a 30% cut out of new patron signups somewhere if said new patron signs up using the iOS App Store to sign up with. (Luckily, there’s a toggle I can utilize to ensure that fee is only tacked on within the iOS app, and believe me, I’ve turned that sucker on ‘cause I make way less than Apple does, so if you’ve got big feels about it, aim them Apple’s way. Not mine. Not Patreon’s.

Please note:

• This should affect ONLY new signups using the iOS store.
• You can avoid those fees by utilizing a browser window (yes, even one on an iPhone) to sign up for Patreon and my channel (or anyone else’s channel here cause there’s a fair amount of awesome folks to give your coin to, let’s be real) and then migrate the app onto your phone after you’ve concluded your signup elsewhere.
• Android users should be unaffected, obviously .

I have adjusted the language within my tiers to reflect what amount you should be seeing as my charge, if it differs dramatically, like, oh, by THIRTY PERCENT, then you are somehow signing up through the iOS store, which hey, if you choose to sign over that extra money to Apple, that’s your call.

But I wanted to be transparent about what’s happening behind the scenes here, and make sure any new signups going forward make the best financial decisions for themselves that they can with full knowledge and consent about how the metaphorical sausage is made.

(And hey, if you aren’t a paid subscriber yet and are reading this? The posts behind the paywall are way more interesting, and I hope you’ll come join the tribe! There are cute dogs and epic fails with glass and lots of entertaining art stuff… But maybe sign up somewhere other than the iOS store, eh?)