Discord has already started integrating their own payment for content/channels recently.

https://discord.com/serversubscriptions

And they desperately need to roll it out to more countries... sad Canadian noises

Funny, none of the Patreons I'm subscribing to or been interested in, has been paywalls for Discord communities.

Half of them provide discord access and 75% a custom rss feed for a subscriber only podcast in my list. And frankly, I only take advantage of a couple of those. Mostly I just do it to throw a few dollars to stuff I like and don't use the perks. I can't be the only one.

This for me. I don't use patreon perks for the people I support on an ongoing basis. I have subscribed for perks (templates for some productivity tool) and then unsubscribed a couple of months later, but that wasn't an ongoing creator I watch all the time. I guess getting my SMBC comics by email is convenient but I already have an RSS feed reader and early access isn't important.

Same, I only hear about Patreon on YouTube.

Fiction authors are who I give my patron money to.

All the Patreons I subscribe to are YouTubers (Big Clive, Technology Connections, etc.)