Where to find obscure indie shit? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Itch.io just banned lgbt content at the reauest of payment providers. It is now, short of finding them and handing them food, impossible to pay the last group of artists i was giving money to, because the mechanisms of payment have decided they cannot be paid.

But I still want the stuff they've made, their back catalogues, etc.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Seems like you know the creators and want to pay them, you can just ask them directly, doesn't seem like its about piracy

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nope. Hypothetical thing ive done a few times in the past.

And im saying i don't know all the people whose stuff i still wanted.

The group/category being 'tiny mostly queer indies on itch'.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry not sure I understand. Are you saying you don't know who the authors are? You could look up the name of the game and find usernames and give them a message. I imagine most of them are on social media somewhere, or have email addresses, etc.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Some of em, but also im gonna want new stuff.

Then if they don't live near me, how do i support them?

Remember the problem here is the money system.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

You can still send them money even if they can't sell their games. e.g. they could have a ko-fi or paypal or something. As for finding new stuff, I suppose it'd have to be word of mouth unfortunately.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

ko-fi or paypal

Dude paypal has been christofascist from day 1. How do i get money to their ko-fi?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

And? That doesn't mean you can't send them money on it.

If they have a ko-fi then just use the web ui to donate...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

can't send them moneu on it

Well i dont use it, and it will block or black-list them soon enough.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

i dont use it

fair enough

it will block or black-list them soon enough

Paypal is bad, but I've not heard of it blocking accounts just for people being queer. That seems like it would lose them a lot of customers—not because of backlash, but because a lot of people are queer.