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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com

Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed #Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming

jul 16, 2025, 9:36 am • 542 208

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broodeagle.bsky.social @broodeagle.bsky.social

Nice, now if they could do all the shitty rape/monster rape games. that would be great.

jul 16, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Blackjack Gabbiani @blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social

Payment processers shouldn't dictate what games are available. Even gross games have the right to exist.

jul 16, 2025, 4:46 pm • 33 0 • view
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Vipes (⚡️🦊) @vipes.bsky.social

I don't play or buy lewd games, not my cup of tea. But let people buy whatever the fuck they want on Steam. And I know it's not gonna stop here. They've set a precedent now.

jul 16, 2025, 11:11 pm • 10 0 • view
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Flannagan the Red 🔞 @flannaganthered.bsky.social

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jul 16, 2025, 5:37 pm • 11 0 • view
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Raphael Zecchin @rsrsecchin.bsky.social

Pushkin Industries and @financialtimes.com made a podcast together called Hot Money back in 2022 detailing this movement by the Card companies in episode 5. I really recommend listening to the whole season, but this specific episode talks about Mastercard.

jul 16, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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holywanderer.bsky.social @holywanderer.bsky.social

It's now time to hold all payment processors accountable for their puritanical overreaching ways and to tax the rich and the churches.

jul 16, 2025, 7:54 pm • 3 1 • view
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sluicegate.bsky.social @sluicegate.bsky.social

Yuk.

jul 16, 2025, 9:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Skyrose Garden @shadowfae.neocities.org

I hope Valve takes the W like they always do and tells payment processors to screw off.

jul 16, 2025, 5:10 pm • 3 0 • view
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Marllontra surda @deaflontra.bsky.social

Only if all countries like brasil have own centralized instant indepedent payment system like PIX wich now is target of trump.

jul 17, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
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MILF Wolf Sepiroth GF @milfwolfgf.bsky.social

They're coming for Hotline Miami 2 next. Then Furquest after that. And games like Undertale and In Stars and Time beyond that. They'll not stop until every game we love is banned.

jul 19, 2025, 4:29 pm • 3 0 • view
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Cley Faye 🐀 @cleyfaye.bsky.social

Yeah, no. Allowing some third party to decide what is allowed and what isn't, on a whim. Not only is that too much power, it's also too much power put in the hand of people that are control freaks.

jul 16, 2025, 11:29 am • 32 0 • view
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🐦🔥FlameChocobo🔥🐦| Vtuber @flamechocobo.bsky.social

Do these payment processors even have morals to begin with? Because I'm starting to think that they don't even give a damn about morality.

jul 16, 2025, 3:24 pm • 65 1 • view
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Vyctorian @vyctorian.bsky.social

They have no issues funding all of our wars, so no, they don't

jul 17, 2025, 2:20 am • 8 0 • view
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hargenblargen.bsky.social @hargenblargen.bsky.social

Same morals as the others: kill, maim, burn

jul 16, 2025, 3:50 pm • 14 0 • view
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Ben Harlan @benharlan.bsky.social

All corporations exist to extract profit. There is no such thing as a moral corporation. Any moral stances they appear to take are simply to trick you into thinking they are moral so you will keep giving them money. I'm not saying we shouldn't care, I'm saying if you want moral companies, regulate.

jul 17, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Yet another no-one @yet-another-no-one.bsky.social

The absolutely don't. No corpo does. Their only guiding principle is "make money number go up next quarter, everything else be damned."

jul 17, 2025, 12:00 pm • 3 0 • view
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Blackjack Gabbiani @blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social

Restricting purchases will make number go DOWN though

jul 17, 2025, 5:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Yet another no-one @yet-another-no-one.bsky.social

I never said they were smart :p

jul 18, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Scriptkitty (Cosmos) @cosqueen.bsky.social

OH MY FUCKING GOD, MY MONEY IS MY MONEY! LET ME SPEND IT ON WHAT I WANT! ( As others have also outlined this is dangerous for the queer community but I don't have to repeat the same points)

jul 16, 2025, 10:13 am • 62 0 • view
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Scriptkitty (Cosmos) @cosqueen.bsky.social

Also the ban on futanari is very concerning because a lot of trans bodily often get confused with it

jul 16, 2025, 4:02 pm • 23 0 • view
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BuckyBucky10DollaSucky @c0mput3rv1ru5.bsky.social

And intersex bodies* It's completely messed up.

jul 16, 2025, 4:42 pm • 10 0 • view
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Scriptkitty (Cosmos) @cosqueen.bsky.social

Yeah I was about to add that, intersex bodice could in some cases maybe even be closer to futon than trans bodies

jul 16, 2025, 4:56 pm • 6 0 • view
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Scriptkitty (Cosmos) @cosqueen.bsky.social

Omg I cannot write "bodies" bsky we need that edit feature

jul 16, 2025, 5:05 pm • 8 0 • view
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tehmud.bsky.social @tehmud.bsky.social

Plus Valve has their own rules for content already for obvious reasons. I may be depraved but there are still lines you don't cross.

jul 16, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Radiant @radiant159.bsky.social

oh no are they removing sex with hitler

jul 17, 2025, 2:25 am • 11 0 • view
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Adam Hay @antireality.bsky.social

I have them turned off and won't miss them, but I disagree with this happening. What comes next? Games with violence? Games that show various political stances in a bad light? Games that are 'woke'? You want lgbqt eradicated? Just call it sexual content. Feels like a slippery slope to me...

jul 17, 2025, 5:21 am • 28 0 • view
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Nick | Lapsiluco @lapsiluco.bsky.social

They've been calling any kind of LGBT content "sexual content" for a while, it's the reason given for multiple book bans in schools. Worrying.

jul 17, 2025, 1:52 pm • 4 0 • view
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Luke Kraft's @lukekrafts.bsky.social

That's why we Brazilians love pix. There's no motherfucking company behind it saying you can't sell your content

jul 17, 2025, 11:27 am • 3 0 • view
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Shiro @shirodoesgames.bsky.social

Payment Processors should not have ANY legal say in what's bought with OUR money.

jul 16, 2025, 5:29 pm • 28 1 • view
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Faerie Sheep Sue ΘΔ @faeriesheep.bsky.social

Maybe people will finally start realizing payment processors are the problem and not jump for the throat of affected platforms for not resisting

jul 16, 2025, 1:02 pm • 51 3 • view
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Warbrand2🔞 @warbold2.bsky.social

It should be noted that the only thing actually removed are Incest games. Which you know are illegal by law in several countries and half the states on the USA. This is more a case of removing illegal content. That said yeah payment processors shouldn't have that power.

jul 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 2 1 • view
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Jonathan Randall 🎮🕹👾 @knuxie.bsky.social

There is no such thing as an illegal video game, except poasibly ONE that used real live action video. You literally made that up.

jul 17, 2025, 4:20 am • 10 0 • view
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Jonathan Randall 🎮🕹👾 @knuxie.bsky.social

Spelling error

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Skull Bearer @skullbearer.bsky.social

Where does the us law say that?

jul 17, 2025, 4:51 am • 2 0 • view
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the achilles prostate @roadkilloomfie.bsky.social

☝️🤓

jul 17, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
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IdkWhatToPutHere @idkwhattoputher3.bsky.social

ANDY AND LEYLEY IS DEAD!!!!!!

jul 17, 2025, 3:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Stahlfrau @stahlfrau.bsky.social

depictions of incest are illegal?

jul 17, 2025, 4:27 am • 4 0 • view
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Warbrand2🔞 @warbold2.bsky.social

Depends on where you are at. But as stated In several US states, and other countries it is.

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Cadbury Creme Egg Enthusiast @thx3188.bsky.social

The former legal counsel to our current president is married to his own second cousin ianal but...i don't *think* it's illegal?

jul 17, 2025, 6:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Warbrand2🔞 @warbold2.bsky.social

It isn't federally illegal. but in a few states like Arkansas, depictions of are illegal. Even if it is unenforceable. Either way, I still agree with the main point payment processors shouldn't have that control. But in this case they are taking it being illegal in some places as a way to remove.

jul 17, 2025, 6:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Dak @daktangle.bsky.social

Bigoted bastards not wanting to handle money they perceive as impure.

jul 16, 2025, 4:21 pm • 6 0 • view
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Nuvie / 🜏-4568 @nuvie.tv

Paypal is a horrendous unethical monster of a company. And they could actually ban my account for me saying this.

jul 16, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Fox Paws @fox-paws.bsky.social

Payment Processors should have no say in what it's client's content is. Unless it's illegal, fuck off.

jul 16, 2025, 4:13 pm • 152 4 • view
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Reverence @reverence.bsky.social

I would argue that the types of content that should be banned should be named, rather than what's illegal. Given the fact the States and elsewhere are trying to make queer people illegal. I'm being pedantic I know. I agree with the rest of the statement

jul 16, 2025, 4:30 pm • 41 0 • view
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Fox Paws @fox-paws.bsky.social

I mean if its something like hate speech then yeah, ban it. Im fine with that.

jul 16, 2025, 4:34 pm • 5 0 • view
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Reverence @reverence.bsky.social

Oh agreed for that

jul 16, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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gilbertgarcia.bsky.social @gilbertgarcia.bsky.social

Unfortunately, that's one reason they still keep Obscenity Laws in the books, which can be super subjective and abused.

jul 18, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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lukeray @lukeray.itch.io

the amount of power they have is terrifying

jul 22, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dapper~Blueberries @dapperblueberries.bsky.social

Fuuuuuck payment processors!!!!

jul 16, 2025, 10:46 am • 16 1 • view
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Mikel @mikel3.bsky.social

I honestly can't wait to see them go further, like denying payment services for shops both physical and online adult stores (Sex stores; Toys videos etc) and see the backlash on that. They can't exclude them out with their current path of choices they have done. There will be a breaking point.

jul 17, 2025, 11:36 am • 1 0 • view
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Stonishizhead @stoni3.bsky.social

Best we can do is sue the payment processors for violating freedom of speech.

jul 16, 2025, 3:44 pm • 44 0 • view
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Ada @0x0ada.bsky.social

That's not a thing. Free speech only restricts government actions, not corporate.

jul 17, 2025, 8:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Stonishizhead @stoni3.bsky.social

… oh god if this happens Deltarune and Undertale could definitely be affected.

jul 16, 2025, 4:23 pm • 20 0 • view
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Multi A Andi @multi-a-andi.bsky.social

Not the literal greatest ever games of all time!! Oh if the Fandon hears anout this, the banks can count their days lol

jul 17, 2025, 7:06 am • 3 0 • view
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Blackjack Gabbiani @blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social

And interfering with the ability of consumers to enter into contracts

jul 17, 2025, 5:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dass Jennir - @dassjennir.bsky.social

lgbtquia+ devs and their games will be the targets of this shit.

jul 16, 2025, 4:41 pm • 6 0 • view
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vodevomit blasphemy tormentor (vodz) ia = lixo @vvodrum.bsky.social

so much for free market. fuck the united lies of america

jul 17, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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$43K medical debt for Shallow Hal's disease treatment @lukasthing.bsky.social

Obviously, this is bad news, but at least there's some leverage through these companies to stop fly-by-night "AI-Nudify" and "AI-Non consensual Porn" companies. Just trying to look on the bright side...

jul 16, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 0 • view
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tehmud.bsky.social @tehmud.bsky.social

Payment Processors shouldn't be the ones deciding what we can and can't buy. Valve already has their own rules for things as there is obviously some material that shouldn't be allowed either way.

jul 16, 2025, 4:18 pm • 6 0 • view
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tehmud.bsky.social @tehmud.bsky.social

The other issue is even if Valve wants to fight it these companies have even more money. They live and breathe cash and could outlast them in an expensive legal battle.

jul 16, 2025, 4:18 pm • 2 0 • view
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Big Black Magic @sorcererdezmar.bsky.social

Puritanical people need to be removed from society by any means nessisary

jul 16, 2025, 6:59 pm • 9 0 • view
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Yulikitsune, SMT Enjoyer 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @yulikitsune.bsky.social

Violence is never the answer. It's a question to which the answer is sometimes, "yes."

jul 17, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com

Whew the interactions on this, who needs the social media site formerly known as Twitter huh.

jul 16, 2025, 7:23 pm • 87 1 • view
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Non-alcoholic Kraken @krakn.bsky.social

I have that side of the store turned off on my account, when I saw some of the titles for stuff pulled tho

jul 16, 2025, 7:26 pm • 6 0 • view
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QUL @quluseslignux.bsky.social

This is crazy. I can understand that they would block the purchase of specific files, but forcing to purge a marketplace is unacceptable. There is a strong need for an open standard for all card networks so they can be interoperable.

jul 17, 2025, 7:28 am • 3 0 • view
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MightyKingVideo @mightykingvideo.bsky.social

Thankfully this is only seemingly games with explicit incest, especially when slapped on the title. Hopefully they don't push for more and more NSFW content to get banned. Honestly why do they even get to dictate that kind of stuff in the first place? Aggrivating that this happens just in general.

jul 16, 2025, 5:36 pm • 10 0 • view
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MightyKingVideo @mightykingvideo.bsky.social

Nevermind. I no longer stand by this. Don’t let them ban anything. Give them an inch and they’ll gun you down like a dog.

jul 25, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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MightyKingVideo @mightykingvideo.bsky.social

oh yeah this is being done en masse by a group of censorship psychos called Collective Shout who once tried to use their numbers and nuisance to ban… Detroit Become Human. of course. what a bunch of dumbasses

jul 18, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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FrostWolf @frostwolf97.bsky.social

That is precisely the issue, they ALWAYS will start extending their reach, every time they get away with one thing, they start pushing for the next, and then the next, and so forth

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MightyKingVideo @mightykingvideo.bsky.social

Yeah, it’s the acceptable stuff first, everybody agrees, having incest porn on your storefront is bad. Then it’s furries, or futanari or something less wierd, then it’s all porn and then it’s everything they deem AS porn which of course means anything too gay for them. It always goes to that.

jul 16, 2025, 6:34 pm • 14 0 • view
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Ozzina Arcane @ozzinaarcane.bsky.social

Eventually Street Fighter is banned cause Juri's feet at too sexy.

jul 16, 2025, 10:24 pm • 10 0 • view
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MightyKingVideo @mightykingvideo.bsky.social

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bags with no groove @papermoonk.ing

that isn't really a "thankfully"

jul 17, 2025, 1:37 am • 2 0 • view
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Jessie is me 🦊 @jessienab.bsky.social

This is seriously why we need European and Asian payment processors available to a worldwide audience...

jul 16, 2025, 12:44 pm • 82 1 • view
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Twilight Vulpine @twilightvulpine.bsky.social

I am this close 🤏 to turning my Visa card into confetti. I just need an alternative.

jul 16, 2025, 10:48 pm • 4 0 • view
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Jessie is me 🦊 @jessienab.bsky.social

Other than debit cards and Amex, we ain't got none in North America. There are alternatives but i'm speaking on a GLOBAL payment platform.

jul 17, 2025, 12:36 am • 4 0 • view
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éli @morgielly.bsky.social

This news came the same day that the USA started "attacking" Brazilian's payment processes. I don't think it's entirely a coincidence.

jul 17, 2025, 5:00 am • 3 0 • view
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Jason @jklees.co.uk

Not surprised. Since actual adult sites play wackamole with payment processors. But alas my heart goes out to those from Alabama as there seems to be a theme in the games removed....

jul 16, 2025, 11:11 am • 12 0 • view
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Enya! @enyatwiggy.bsky.social

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Church of game. @churchofgame.bsky.social

this is wrong. this is criminalizing fiction by the same people who who said that Detroit: Become Human needs a ban in the united kingdom. Burning a painting of a forrest is not a forrest fire. this confusiong with harm with fiction is a political end to not help victims.

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tea--drinker.bsky.social @tea--drinker.bsky.social

I'ma say one thing it's mixed cuz straight up porn that is deleted is good but the reason is bad

jul 16, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Keiros @keirosdragon.bsky.social

Just a reminder, groups like NCOSE are the reason why these payment processors are doing this.

jul 16, 2025, 4:11 pm • 18 2 • view
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Hangnailed @hangnailed-art.bsky.social

Don't forget Exodus cry.

jul 16, 2025, 4:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Sejha @sejha.bsky.social

And garm, theyre all the same companies theyre just shells of each other

jul 18, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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AnotherAutomaticPasta @someroboticpizza.bsky.social

Can someone tell me in what way valve gets money from the payment processors? like do the banks get money through fees and pay that to valve or what?

jul 16, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lenna @lenna.gay

Payment processors and ISOs provide the middleware between the bank and the clients. A while back it was easier to find 'high risk' ISOs to take payments others wouldn't, but they still answer to interchange systems & the aggregation of things in the industry makes that not really as viable anymore.

jul 16, 2025, 4:28 pm • 2 0 • view
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Gavin @fifthelephant.bsky.social

Not a fan of these particular types of games but as long as it's not illegal and only depicts adults I don't really understand the objective here

jul 16, 2025, 7:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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Disco Central Banker @centralbanker.bsky.social

Hey I made a thread on how international schemes have become the de facto rules of the adult industry (with insane examples) you may be very interested bsky.app/profile/cent...

jul 16, 2025, 5:28 pm • 4 1 • view
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Pikacha Twentyfive @pikacha.bsky.social

Trying to figure out a marketing angle here to stick it to them; wouldnt a payment processor that *does* accept these things have a monopoly in a world that *doesnt*?

jul 16, 2025, 5:11 pm • 5 0 • view
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OJMachine @ojmachine.bsky.social

As much as I want to slam Valve for this decision We all know the real villains are the payment processors for forcing this to happen despite all the protections in place on steam to prevent people from seeing and buying things they don't want or believe in.

jul 16, 2025, 5:30 pm • 8 0 • view
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Tech @techv01.bsky.social

Fucking hell not steam wtf

jul 16, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ozzina Arcane @ozzinaarcane.bsky.social

Now that it hit Valve, maybe we can finally get some backlash on this shit. This isn't new behavior. They've literally been using their power to censor Japanese products recently.

jul 16, 2025, 10:22 pm • 22 0 • view
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Eniko Fox @eniko.bsky.social

They're going to use this to eventually persecute developers of queer games of all stripes bsky.app/profile/enik...

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xrayleader.bsky.social @xrayleader.bsky.social

Welp, back to shareware i guess :<

jul 16, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bryy Miller @bryymiller.bsky.social

Yeah this is not great, bob.

jul 17, 2025, 2:35 am • 1 0 • view
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Clifton B is working on [TBA] @cliftonb.bsky.social

Steam needs to stop being the go-to platform. I'm tired of them calling the shots, especially when it means hurting devs who need exposure the most.

jul 16, 2025, 10:19 am • 12 0 • view
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com

This will happen on any platform that takes payment. It's not a Valve issue, it's a payment processor issue.

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Clifton B is working on [TBA] @cliftonb.bsky.social

True, my rant was a bit tangential, but them being the only big non-console storefront still makes this issue even worse. Steam wishlists are seen as a marker of success, and devs have to beg for Steam reviews to keep their market presence going. This new rule isn't theirs, but the monopoly sure is.

jul 16, 2025, 10:25 am • 12 0 • view
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Garpu @garpu.bsky.social

Like itch.io has a lot of LGTBQAI+ friendly games. :/

jul 16, 2025, 11:19 am • 13 0 • view
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Garpu @garpu.bsky.social

Yeah, that's exactly why I don't like it. :/

jul 16, 2025, 11:18 am • 1 0 • view
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The Vampire Fish Queen @fishqueen.bsky.social

Have any queer games been banned?

jul 16, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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MiqoRems @miqorems.bsky.social

You're kinda dumb, huh

jul 16, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Vampire Fish Queen @fishqueen.bsky.social

Sorry it's just I heard some game may have already been removed by this.

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MiqoRems @miqorems.bsky.social

My bad, I misread the tone

jul 16, 2025, 10:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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Transmental Me @transmentalme.bsky.social

It's the exact same attack they made in Patreon and then Subscribestar. They'll be forced to remove anything related to whatever the processor deems as amoral or grotesque, adult content is just the most obvious. Lesser obvious example, Trevor and the teddy bear boyfriend in GTA V is high risk.

jul 18, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Loot potato @lootpotato.bsky.social

So I really hope not all adult games are removed just some particular topics. There are some that really do need to be removed, but I don’t think all of them.

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FrostVulpine @frostvulpine.bsky.social

They forgot steam gift cards exists.

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tyson @lunar.boats

I believe its more of a problem that PayPal, Visa, ect are saying "oh you have content we don't like, get rid of it" rather than them just not allowing their service for some stuff. Sadly Steam Gift cards wouldn't matter in this case.

jul 16, 2025, 7:31 pm • 8 0 • view
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FrostVulpine @frostvulpine.bsky.social

Well Crap. the least I can hope for is that Valve can try to converse with these payment processors, maybe explain to them why such approaches are usually bad ideas. But recalling from the controversy reguarding Mastercard and CrunchyRoll, It may take further convincing.

jul 16, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Steven Toth @toths.info

My only question is why not Nintendo? They don’t have the pure adult titles and as many but they do have some risqué stuff and is being marketed as a “kids” toy still. Well maybe not kids, more just immature. Either way this kinda sucks for people who don’t want to play just violent games.

jul 16, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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Xander Lee @xanderlee.bsky.social

Whilst I'm glad it's clearing up the glut of the most shovelware of games, it's definitely not out of the question to lump LGBTQA+ games into that too, what with companies becoming even more puritan in the states. Not to mention it shouldnt ever be up to a third party like a payment processor.

jul 16, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Femboy Leo, Sorority Sissy @sissyleona.bsky.social

What happened to money being equal to free speech?? So now the banks can censor what I spend my hard earned money on now?! I saw make a class action lawsuit against Visa and Mastercard as both monopolies and violating our first amendment right under Citizens United.

jul 17, 2025, 12:28 am • 25 0 • view
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Jonathan Randall 🎮🕹👾 @knuxie.bsky.social

I have to break it to you, but this has been the Christian conservative MO for decades, and these banks started doing this en masse starting back in 2012

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Femboy Leo, Sorority Sissy @sissyleona.bsky.social

Except Valve does not react well when you mess with them. When Windows started screwing with Valve, they pivoted to using Linux and making it game friendly. Now you can play steam games on Linux with better performance than on windows. Making their own payment processor is peanuts in comparison

jul 17, 2025, 9:55 am • 6 0 • view
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Minevera MacDougal @minmacdougal.bsky.social

So the damn Mormons are going after Steam now.

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🍁🔥🔱 ~ wings of a feather ~ 🪶 @fenny.moe

ughhhhhhhhhhh steam stop listening to stupid extremist christian groups...

jul 18, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Wes Franklin @wesfox134.bsky.social

Here's a article with more information about the group that lobbied for this "Collective Shout": www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

jul 21, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Wes Franklin @wesfox134.bsky.social

The group that pressured payment processors to do this is actually a Baptist christian group masquerading as a Woman's Rights group. And many of the Co-Signers on it have been Christian religious groups as well. Christians have co-opted the language of feminism for their puritan purposes.

jul 18, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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The1stArticle @thefirstarticle.bsky.social

The freedom to assault children and the vulnerable as games. Whoop whoop that's what true freedom is.

jul 17, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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tiaxanderson.bsky.social @tiaxanderson.bsky.social

It's kind of messed up that the payment processors are dictating what Valve and their customers buy. Slowly changing everything that capitalism touches. And won't be long before they start erasing games made by minorities (if they haven't already).

jul 16, 2025, 3:07 pm • 40 1 • view
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Ozzina Arcane @ozzinaarcane.bsky.social

This isn't new. The reason you can't state on Paypal what you're paying for if you pay an artist for a NSFW commission is for the same reason. Visa/Mastercard have a puritan stick up their ass over porn. They've been interfering with multiple Japanese businesses for selling lewd manga.

jul 16, 2025, 10:26 pm • 15 0 • view
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Kitty🔞Mars @n19f23.bsky.social

Another reason they're envious of Brazil's Pix system of payment

jul 16, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blackjack Gabbiani @blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social

Just because they're pressured, why are they OBEYING? Steam has HUGE industry power and they need to fucking USE it.

jul 16, 2025, 4:47 pm • 5 0 • view
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atomicBlaze21 @atomicblaze21.bsky.social

They have huge power in the gaming industry, but their influence is absolutely DWARFED in comparison to the power that these payment processors have on online transactions. If they don't comply, Steam would be crippled, while the payment processors would just see a rounding error.

jul 16, 2025, 4:53 pm • 13 0 • view
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Blackjack Gabbiani @blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social

I feel like there would be massive workarounds. Buy virtual gift cards for the price of games that can then be exchanged and that way you're not buying the game directly and such. Also, taking these processors to court for inhibiting freedom of speech.

jul 16, 2025, 5:19 pm • 3 0 • view
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Ezel @ezelparlin.bsky.social

I forget, does Steam let you use your card to put money in your steam wallet without buying anything? Like Nintendo? Cause if so, there's your loophole. Processors can'tcomplain about people charging up their steam wallets. At that point, what we spend our e-cash on is our business.

jul 16, 2025, 8:44 pm • 17 0 • view
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Effervescent Robert @kodithic.bsky.social

Yes, they can. People can also use cards or cash to buy Steam Wallet cards from physical stores (and not just gaming ones). However, processors have such power that they can dictate things to Steam generally by threatening to pull all processing, specific transactions and their path don't matter.

A screenshot from Steam's
jul 16, 2025, 10:26 pm • 10 0 • view
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Ezel @ezelparlin.bsky.social

Tbh it sounds like they have as much power as we allow them to have. Let them cut their services from steam or anything else and watch as the customer base abandons them. They'll start using crypto to buy steam cards. Humans famously don't like their decisions being dictated to them.

jul 17, 2025, 1:08 am • 9 0 • view
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Effervescent Robert @kodithic.bsky.social

AFAIK people can't choose their debit card's CC network, they're locked to it. Moving from one network to another does nothing with a duopoloy and both pull this shit. (Nevermind all the issues with CC hopping.) People will just buy steam wallet cards before even considering crypto lol

jul 17, 2025, 2:15 am • 7 0 • view
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Multi A Andi @multi-a-andi.bsky.social

Well i would nrver fucking touch crypto. That shit is even worse than banks

jul 17, 2025, 7:03 am • 6 0 • view
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Ezel @ezelparlin.bsky.social

Your not wrong. That said, when banks and card companies start telling us what we can and can't do with our money, people will do what they have to to resist.

jul 17, 2025, 11:53 am • 4 0 • view
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Multi A Andi @multi-a-andi.bsky.social

Crypto aint the way imo tho.

jul 18, 2025, 10:45 am • 2 0 • view
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Ezel @ezelparlin.bsky.social

It's not, I agree. I'm just convinced that people would use it if they felt that they had no other choice.

jul 18, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Multi A Andi @multi-a-andi.bsky.social

When there literally is the other choice to not buy things online anymore. You can still buy things physically and in person. Like boardgames and books. Clothes too. From local businesses. Itll brobably be a lot better for the economy.

jul 18, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ezel @ezelparlin.bsky.social

That's true, but it's not quite the world we live in anymore. Tbf, its also not an option for people with disabilities who struggle to leave their homes. Online shopping from places like Amazon, or even just placing delivery orders from Walmart is a necessity for some people.

jul 19, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Multi A Andi @multi-a-andi.bsky.social

You KNOW thats not who i was talking about.

jul 19, 2025, 5:37 am • 0 0 • view
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🌙💮Lilith ✦ リリス @chroma.rip

big reason for this is that adult content is very regularly charged back when it shows up on people's credit card statements for their spouses to see hopefully won't affect LGBTQI+ content but the world is very unpredictable as of late...

jul 16, 2025, 7:12 pm • 12 0 • view
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Ozzina Arcane @ozzinaarcane.bsky.social

Games you buy on Steam don't show up as the game you bought. It just shows up as a total paid to Steam.

jul 16, 2025, 10:22 pm • 9 0 • view
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🌙💮Lilith ✦ リリス @chroma.rip

yes, but more broadly this is why credit card payment processors are going after adult content

jul 16, 2025, 10:24 pm • 4 0 • view
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gustavo bakushin @bakunin.com.br

no it is not, its because of o heavy lobby by right-wing religious organizations going back to decades ago

jul 17, 2025, 2:07 am • 10 0 • view
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Yet another no-one @yet-another-no-one.bsky.social

So once again, everything bad in the world is caused by biblefuckers. (I refuse to call them "christian". These heretics would have tried to deport jesus.)

jul 17, 2025, 12:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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tennesseeliberal.bsky.social @tennesseeliberal.bsky.social

Because you're a lying propagandist

jul 18, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Michele Bissacco @micbi.bsky.social

Sounds exactly like what an actual lying propagandist would say out of the blue!

jul 18, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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tennesseeliberal.bsky.social @tennesseeliberal.bsky.social

Say what you want, but only one of us is lying about the facts on the ground in order to save the reputation of a trillion dollar industry

jul 18, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Michele Bissacco @micbi.bsky.social

Not sure what you are talking about and all of NCOSE, collective shout and Exodus Cry have pretty obvious ties to religious groups. If you want to make the distinction between good christians (idk? catholics and whatever protestant denominations) and posers (evanglicals I guess) fine, but be honest.

jul 18, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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Yet another no-one @yet-another-no-one.bsky.social

I mean, that's what I was trying to do to begin with.

jul 18, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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gustavo bakushin @bakunin.com.br

i see where you're coming from, but calling them christians is saying how it is. Let christians fix their hearts or die.

jul 17, 2025, 12:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Yet another no-one @yet-another-no-one.bsky.social

I say that because I'M Christian and not a lonely one of these bastards actually follows the teachings of christ. Why should I let them wear the label when they voted the actual, literal antichrist into the oval office?

jul 17, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ozzina Arcane @ozzinaarcane.bsky.social

It's also not just Christians. It's also the sex negative feminists (specifically a group called Collective Shout). They're two groups that hate each other but both of them want to destroy porn. One is "Think of the Children!" the other is "Think of the Women!".

jul 17, 2025, 1:23 pm • 3 0 • view
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Michele Bissacco @micbi.bsky.social

The lady at the head of CS is so fucked up (not even trying with the usual subtle concern trolling of these astroturfs) she's even against abortion man.

jul 18, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sejha @sejha.bsky.social

Collective shout is a front for exodus cry so, no, it is just christians.

jul 18, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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🍁🔥🔱 ~ wings of a feather ~ 🪶 @fenny.moe

why should we let you no true scotsman them when they are proud to use your religion to advance hate? they are christians.

jul 18, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Yet another no-one @yet-another-no-one.bsky.social

And why are YOU trying to vilify me here? We literally want the same thing. To see these bastards removed from power. We're just coming at it from different angles.

jul 18, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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🍁🔥🔱 ~ wings of a feather ~ 🪶 @fenny.moe

because i don't care for christians who try to deny that the religion has been a source of evil for millennia

jul 18, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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🍁🔥🔱 ~ wings of a feather ~ 🪶 @fenny.moe

they are christians. refusing to call them christians is giving christians a special pass for allowing these people to be the face of christianity

jul 18, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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🌙💮Lilith ✦ リリス @chroma.rip

hmm yeah I think you're right, it does seem like there's a lot of legal pressure on the payment processors to ensure they're not funding illegal content. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't a combination of factors though.

jul 17, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
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Conservation of Anger Momentum @primarylupine.bsky.social

This is what crypto was supposedly made to fix, instead it was co-opted by the same payment processors, and fuckwit day-traders jerking off over monkey jpegs and green candles.

jul 16, 2025, 11:16 am • 69 0 • view
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Scriptkitty (Cosmos) @cosqueen.bsky.social

I think the original vision behind crypto court still be powerful, but yeah, tech bros and wall street ruin everything

jul 16, 2025, 12:41 pm • 6 0 • view
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Luke Kraft's @lukekrafts.bsky.social

In Brazil we have a little thing called pix... It's free, there's no one saying you can't use it for this or that... And it falls into the Bank account in seconds.

jul 17, 2025, 11:30 am • 0 0 • view
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₿Itcoin ₿ro @bitcoinbro.bsky.social

Bitcoin isn’t co-opt. Study

jul 16, 2025, 11:40 am • 2 1 • view
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Rumblestiltskin @rumblestiltskin.bsky.social

It can still be used this way and is still used this way even with these bad actors.

jul 16, 2025, 12:16 pm • 8 0 • view