• ‮redirtSdeR@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Damn guess we’ll need to move to the alternative- ah wait- no- itch was the alternative.


    I wonder if a federated game platform would work as an idea or if that’s just an inherently bad idea due to the nature of trusting strangers with your money.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.

      Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.

    • rickrolled767@ttrpg.network
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      2 months ago

      Still wouldn’t address the root problem here: payment processing companies have the power to just deny payment from even happening.

      Unless you’re referring to making a federated platform that instead allows devs to connect with buyers and make transactions off channel.

      Would limit widespread issues like this but now you’re opening a whole new can of worms with trust

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          2 months ago

          This but unironically. I was going to try and use monero recently just to dip my toes in the proverbial crypto water, until I found out that I can’t buy anything with monero other than drugs.

          • Cam@scribe.disroot.org
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            2 months ago

            I recall you could pay for some VPS but it was years ago and I know nothing about the current situation.

            Cryptocurrency was going to be an alternative coin but it’s just used to speculate and buy illegal things.

            • MouldyCat@feddit.uk
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              2 months ago

              buy illegal things

              but that is actually what we’re here for in this thread - we want to buy things that our masters say we cannot.