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It seemed like every search on Itchio was 70% NSFW results before this move

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

One of the great mysteries of the 21st century is how a tiny number of US companies control most of the world's payment processing, when it's not a technically difficult problem.

You could implement an entire end-to-end payment processing system in a year with a team of a few dozen competent engineers. The only difficulty is getting banks and retailers to sign up to it, but when the big players charge so much and create so much trouble this doesn't seem like it should be a tough sell. In most cases literally all you'd need to do is charge 2.4% instead of their 3%.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The comment section of my favorite adult Visual novel is already getting panicked.

Eternum is really really good I swear it's not just porn

Apparently there is some petition? Taking a look now.

Edit: Yup. Go sign it

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Could someone just make, like, Raunchy Mastercard and just process payments from everyone including all the porn and weird shit that the other mainstream companies don't want? It seems like the payment processors being puritanical dipshits is a weakness that could be exploited by an enterprising competitor.

But then again, we're talking about a natural monopoly that has been in place for decades at this point. I wouldn't expect them to exactly play fair.

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