It’s important to know that it may not be visa and MasterCard directly, but rather Stripe, a popular middleware that provides an easy API for developers to access the card networks. To a user it’d be more or less transparent if they’re just swapping them out
Comment on Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material
artyom@piefed.social 3 days agoIt's great if you can convince all of your customers to use a new payment service. Most businesses are not gonna go anywhere near that. They don't care.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Yeah, but having a Visa/Mastercard duopoly is already a precarious position. This is just the canary in the coalmine.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The canary was when the exact same thing happened (with much greater impact) to pornhub.
Nobody cared. and Pornhub Corp STILL can’t use credit cards and are dependent on bank orders and cryptocurrency.
And I can’t see a lot of developers going out of their way to prioritize this. Because it is easy to say you are sex positive. It is another thing to actually stand with smut and risk getting attacked by all the same groups.
Also, you know what else is a de facto monopoly? Steam! (cue all the usual suspects). You know what people will never stop whining about? Games not having Steam versions.
So yeah. Gamers Rise Up?
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Amex and Discover: “We exist, too!”