Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now
qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
And this is why platforms are nice yet cutting the middle man is important. There was a time before walled gardens.
Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now
qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
And this is why platforms are nice yet cutting the middle man is important. There was a time before walled gardens.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 months ago
You kinda need a payment processor unless you want people to start mailing cash in the post.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Before people ruined it this was one of the ideas behind crypto
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I hate so much everytime I remember what cryptocurrency was supposed to be and what has become.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For a little while I bought coffee and strawberries with Bitcoin back more than 9ish years ago. It was pretty cool easy with the first apps.
Worked well.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 months ago
If nothing else it’s a bit of a faff. But again you’d need someone to convert it to fiat for it to be useful in every day life, which isn’t super removed from a payment processor. It’s pretty much difficult to get away from a middleman somewhere.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
The idea is it becomes the fiat
qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Direct bank transfers. Those are a thing.
superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s still a payment processor; just now you’ve completely deanonimized both parties.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
What is this? Mafia? If you have my account number that is it. You can send me money but you can’t get anything out of it.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Widely sharing your bank details isn’t usually considered a great idea.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
My bank number account is a string of numbers. Besides the country and bank entity code, no other information can be obtained and no movements can be ordered on it by a non titular.
Money can be transfered in but the account can’t be moved by anyone but the titular.