Is there a thing like etsy but more... what etsy claims to be, with things a reasonable person would call "handmade" and not "obviously factory made with trivial customizations"?

@emily not that I know of but it's something the #Fediverse should solve for. I am not a programmer, however. I think we need some kind of #ethical #payments system period but that is a Hard Problem, I'd say.

@mossyfoot not only a hard problem on its own, but even harder to do without immediately snowballing into all the nonsense that happened to cryptocurrencies

shame really, would've been nice if that "instant payments to anyone without involving banks" thing worked out, but

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@emily It's a critical mass problem, like setting up a new social media platform. Very similar.

Without the users there's no reason for users to use it.

We have the technology for nearly instant payments without involving banks, but it's the social problem that's to hold up.

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