• scholar@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      This pressure is coming from the payment providers without whom no storefront can operate. We need alternatives to Visa and Mastercard.

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      2 months ago

      Uh, I think it’s called the World Wide Web.

      I mean, I’m joking, but I do remember buying games directly from a developers website, that’s a thing that used to happen.

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      Seems like a weekend hack to set up a fediverse-backed categorized market that, when you want to buy something- forwards to a “buy our download” link of the seller’s choice. Rabid moralists would have to challenge each producer/indie developer individually to take things down.

      The real crux is to build a nice user interface on top of it so people would actually use it.