Kat March谩n 馃悎
@zkat@toot.cat  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

discord.gg/kyjfet2hpT

If people want to do something about the itch.io thing, a number of us engineers, artists, and community members are gathering together to plan for and build a real alternative that's genuinely resistant to this kind of censorship in a way centralized platforms with singular payment processor relationships simply can't be

Join us! We need all the help we can get.
Exaltia@misskey.exaltia.fr
@Exaltia@misskey.exaltia.fr replied  路  activity timestamp last week
@zkat@toot.cat Speaking of centralized platforms, maybe it's also a good time to try to make a first step moving out of discord too and using a decentralized platform for chat?
There's a few. Matrix, of course, but also, XMPP. and probably more that i don't even know.

Of course, you do wathever you want. this is just a suggestion on things i use everydays.
Anyways, i'm curious, and will join to see. (from a bridge 馃榿 )
Ben Pate 馃馃徎
@benpate@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@zkat

Hello 馃憢

I might have about 90% of this built for you already.

Check out https://emissary.dev - it鈥檚 a native Fediverse server + distributed search engine where you can make your own kinds of content and templates.

https://bandwagon.fm is the first Emissary app, and I鈥檝e planned to add more later this year. And, I鈥檝e just rolled out online payments, which should help a lot.

I鈥檝e joined your discord, and would d love to work with you to build a distributed art site.
馃尡@ambiguous_yelp:ahimsa.chat
@ambiguous_yelp@social.coop replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@zkat U could create a system 2 make it easier 4 creators 2 accept #Monero (XMR) a truly private cryptocurrency, #bitcoin & #ethereum r talked about by the media as if theyre private but theyre actually pseudonymous, if u have the persons address u have their entire transaction history, but not with monero. Using it there would be no higher authority (except the state) that could enforce regulations on ur sales, & even then it would have to b serious surveillance bc the network itself is opaque
馃尡@ambiguous_yelp:ahimsa.chat
@ambiguous_yelp@social.coop replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@zkat As a privacy tool can't it be used for good? like here and countless other cases monero could be used to defy oppressors that want to control what we buy or who we associate with. Investing in crypto and using crypto to buy things are two different things I would never treat crypto as an investment bc the ppl who lose most from that are the most desparate and vulnerable; ofc theres pointless projects tied 2 new coins that exist just 2 pump & dump scam ppl but thats not this.
馃尡@ambiguous_yelp:ahimsa.chat
@ambiguous_yelp@social.coop replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@zkat also the mining algorithm for #monero (XMR) isn't easily parallelizable so its not profitable to buy up data centres worth of gpus to mine it. The mining process focuses on single cpu cores, also the coins have fungibility meaning that theres no such thing as dirty money like there is with #bitcoin every xmr coin is identical with no history
OliverUv
@OliverUv@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp last week
@ambiguous_yelp

Which is why virus authors often specifically deploy monero miners on their victims' systems. If more services accept monero, the incentives for ransomware and stealth miners increase significantly.

I think there are better solutions to the social problem of payment processors letting themselves be bullied by christofascists

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Kat March谩n 馃悎
@zkat@toot.cat replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@aetataureate There exist payment processors that process "high-risk" or adult content. They have their own relationships with visa/mastercard. They just tend to charge significantly more in fees.

When you have a centralized site, payment processors judge you by the content across the site. That is, if you have ANY NSFW on your site, you end up having to use a nsfw processor for ALL of your content, which is kind of a non-starter for sfw creators.

By decentralizing payments such that only individual, tiny sites hook up with nsfw payment processors, and by further making it so each of those individual sites has THEIR OWN relationship with a payment processor, you make it so instead of taking down a whole platform, the best an organization like those Australian TERFs can do is play whack-a-mole with a bunch of tiny sites, and make individual requests to a number of different payment processors related to a bunch of different accounts... and no one else is affected in the process.