I read that this is actually coming. I forgot what it was called though. Fingers crossed.

Bunch of losers

Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.

Looks like Vice can't be trusted as a reliable source of information if they're willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.

There was an entire subreddit devoted to porn games but it's not made it over to Lemmy.

Maybe once I get laid off I'll start a community

I'm pretty sure I saw one, but maybe it was just general anime thirst trapping. There's a lot of niche abandoned communities.

GNU Taler?

This also goes to an entire new level. Before it was "only" censoring digital products and events. Now it is directly censoring media outlets.

This screams for an antitrust lawsuit, if a company has this kind of power.

I do believe MasterCard and Visa owners and execs are card holding Nazis.

Isn't Stripe one of the growing alternatives?

Stripe is a payment processor. It has different payment methods it supports. Which are MasterCard and Visa. But it does also support(if you can use it and the merchant accepts it): Giro card, other card options, Revolut Pay and other options. Those avoid the MasterCard, Visa ecosystem.

Regardless, not everyone wants to use or uses Stripe. And it's a bad thing for everyone to use Stripe just because of their interoperability because that then gives stripe too much power.

Plus, for a company like Valve, the fees of Stripe would severely affect their revenue.

Stripe bans even more stuff https://stripe.com/en-de/legal/restricted-businesses , recently they banned payments for online dating platforms in the US.

It really boggles the mind why we have to go through private corporations to use our monetary system in the digital realm

If we had to use private corporations then there needs to be enough competition to prevent what is happening now.

I have seen it mentioned quite a few times on websites. Can you actually pay normal shops using that?

Make it. I will be there.

Also, Please play "Ripples" even if you don't like Lewd Game. It's story is so good that the Lewd Scene just feels like reward

Edit: Forgot to say but it's completely free

Could be great links to share over Riot Games streams.

• MasterCard has asked Riot to keep an eye out for negative sentiments on official Riot streams
• Riot has asked esports content creators working with official Riot properties to watch out for any negative sentiments toward MasterCard
• Moderators have been told to look out for any unusual activity around the MasterCard issue

No better publicity than getting their own efforts thrown back at their faces.

MasterCard is running an effective PR campaign against themselves.
They can't stop giving their critics all this gold.

Did you mean "make it"? If you made it already, link the community!

I don't log into my Lemmynsfw account much these days. But I know that a lot of "copy" subreddits were made in the days after the API shutoff. So it very well could be a community already but I'm too lazy to look.

If it was about money, MasterVisa would have already given up. There are people who claim that MasterVisa bent the knee to Collective Shout for the sake of money, yet when a much bigger demographic speaks, MasterVisa tries to ignore it.

This is about the power to shape society.

Megacorp be megacorping.

We should always fight giants like this.

And think to not feed them indirectly.

(Not to mention that such basic infrastructure should never be for-profit.)

FedNow became a thing just two years ago. With transaction fees of just $0.043/transaction, it's cheaper than every other payment processor out there. Hopefully it can gain adoption and push out Visa/Mastercard.