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Paypal Alternatives? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Solrac@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Title... Honestly, I'm just tired of funding monsters, just because we've gotten used to using their platforms.

Besides Crypto, which is what I imagine a lot of people would say (and Props, if Monero), CCs, and Cash (the tried and true) are there any other avenues?

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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A paypal alternative needs to be accepted in most places for it to be viable.

Basically the only thing that meets that criteria is a credit card. And even then, you're almost limited to Visa and MasterCard as the others aren't always accepted.

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd guess that all financial institutions are awful monsters and likely isn't even a lesser of evils option. I've been lifetime banned from PayPal, CashApp and Zelle; I was helping a sexy content seller process her funds for a few years. It was honestly a great side hustle and easily banked 10k over 4 years. Bummed when they finally banned me, stopped helping her so I could preserve the few pay portals I still had.

I think a money app that accepted nsfw sellers would do well with a niche market.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

It's really a great example of the problem: Your ability to conduct commerce has been heavily limited at the whims of a few corporations. That really shouldn't be able to happen.

[–] Heyla@quokk.au 2 points 1 day ago

What about using Nostr with lightning Paiment ?

I know it's not the best, but for emergency....

[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Which then redirects us to Cash. Not disagreeing with it, but I can understand others don't want to always carry.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

Wero, cash, bank transfer

[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago

Good old Bank transfer, and what about cash?

[–] gtr@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

GNU Taler

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here you go: https://buy-european.net/en/alternative-to/paypal

[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This list is pretty sick! But, what about for the US (Im from PR, so I sadly count as part of it) And maybe I'm being silly, but are these regionally popular? Or are they inter-operable?

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I don’t know the situation in USA or Puerto Rico. Yes, they are popular and their popularity is increasing rapidly since the Orange-tufted Mushroomdick took power, with support from the EU. Especially Wero is being built out.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

What do you use Paypal for?

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Wero, but it's only available in continental EU