I'm betting that @christi3k is exactly right about why Patreon has changed their fee structure this week in a way that, in my opinion, makes their business basically worthless. https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be-a-money-services-business/
Especially since, OMG, "You can no longer use your Patreon balance to make pledge payments to avoid the per-pledge processing fee."
@jamey @christi3k @green I can totally see this, so the question becomes "what's the best path forward?" Moving from Patreon to Liberapay won't address what looks like the core issue here.
@literorrery @christi3k @green I'm not sure that's true; I believe part of the Liberapay deal is that they're in Europe and have different regulatory requirements. (I believe that's also why they didn't handle payments in US dollars until very recently.)
As @audrey pointed out this week, Liberapay doesn't try to educate people on effective crowdfunding techniques, so that's a weakness. But, I don't think it shares Patreon's problems!