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There is a whole parallel economy popping up due to all these cancellations. Rumble is even creating a parallel aws for these startups to run on. (Rumble cloud)

I wonder what the parallel of visa/matercard/discover and consequently (paypal and stripe) would be because these services/cards are going to be the root of the parallel economy.

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I suspect they'll rapidly discover why major payment processors aren't into that "economy" and the reasons rhyme with "Fraud and Chargebacks."

Having said that, knocking antisocial people off the mainstream and back into a digital hole seems like a win to me.

You sound pretty antisocial. Be careful what you wish for, you might find yourself at the wrong end of the stick.

> major payment processors aren't into that "economy" and the reasons rhyme with "Fraud and Chargebacks."

I feel like this is the lemon problem, where that group of people are mainly lemons. As more normal people move over, i feel like it will be more Signal (chat app) and less Mastodon/Keybase/Tor.

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