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   Cassandra is only carbon now (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 08:58:51 JST Cassandra is only carbon now

   The whole itch.io situation is absolutely a recurring conversation at #worldcon2025. I think it's come up four or five distinct times today?

   #worldcon #seattle

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 08:58:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @xgranade what do you hear in these discussions?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 10:00:24 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • LovesTha🥧

     @LovesTha @xgranade bitcoin doesn't have "payment processors"; every payment is peer-to-peer (but then you have other hostile intermediaries, like exchanges)

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     LovesTha🥧 (lovestha@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 10:00:26 JST LovesTha🥧

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @xgranade @whitequark So cash only? That is going to be tough for digital services.

     Or do I just not understand what payment processor free means, probably.

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     Cassandra is only carbon now (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 10:00:28 JST Cassandra is only carbon now

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark Secondarily, the need to get away from payment processors entirely.

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     Cassandra is only carbon now (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 10:00:31 JST Cassandra is only carbon now

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark How screwed up the whole situation is, how hard it makes things for writers, and the importance of writing more queer and erotic stuff anyway.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 17:40:58 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • LovesTha🥧

     @LovesTha @xgranade i'm fine with using it

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     LovesTha🥧 (lovestha@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 17:40:59 JST LovesTha🥧

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @xgranade More it has infinite payment processors (reality it has several), but that means they are incentivised to process all transactions.

     You also have a whole host of reasons to not use it for a multitude of ethical reasons