Patreon adding a 2.9% and $.35 fee to every patron transaction

I really dislike this move. I like to support creators with small monthly contributions, like $1-2/month. Because I pledge to a lot of creators the overhead remains small for the people I support.

With this new model Patreon is raising its prices for me with ~30%, or another way of looking at it Patreon is decreasing the payout to creators from ~90% to ~65% for small pledges.

So it seems to me, that they are pushing all the transaction cost of credit card processing on the patrons, and taking that 5% as their chunk of the pie.

Which frankly for the service they are providing is ridiculous, I dumped my account, and will work to find another format to support those I choose, without this 5% fee for nothing.