Still wouldn’t address the root problem here: payment processing companies have the power to just deny payment from even happening.

Unless you’re referring to making a federated platform that instead allows devs to connect with buyers and make transactions off channel.

Would limit widespread issues like this but now you’re opening a whole new can of worms with trust

Honest question. What’s wrong with Chucklefish as a publisher?

There’s programs like Ollama and Lmstudio that let you download LLMs and run them locally

Gotcha. Thanks for explaining it. I’m in the US so I was really curious on what was different in the EU that would cause problems for them

They’re illegal in Europe? Could you elaborate a bit on that?

There was a subreddit I used to be very active on that practically got nuked by the company during the protests. They kicked all of the mods off and replaced it with their own, leaving a huge mess behind.

A good number of them started over from scratch on Lemmy and I followed them here. Haven’t really looked back since