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stux⚡

Omg.. :sad_cat: Stripe just closed my account after I don’t know how many years.. Apparently I am a ‘risk’ now while I’ve never had any issue with them before

Now half of the donation methodes are falling away..

Please only use the following ways for donating♥️

paypal.me/stuxOS
patreon.com/mstdn
ko-fi.com/mstdn
bunq.me/stuxhost

They don’t make it easier unfortunately :neocat_cry_loud:

31 comments
stux⚡

@rysiek I’m gonna check it all, it should all still arrive but after 15 Jan I have no access anymore

I’m gonna work the options, already have a ticket

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@stux good luck. Fscking Stripe, ffs. As if you had nothing better to do.

Eris :trans:

@stux

I hope this is a mistake that they will correct for you!

stux⚡

This is so terrible, I could cry but unfortunately that won’t solve a thing

Already have ticket with Stripe and tomorrow I’m gonna call them..

Emelia 👸🏻

@stux did you ever have any chargebacks? I'm curious what their basis is for "risk” — they seem to want to push people to not use them directly but instead use the big platforms.. which is weird.

Gloopsies :fedora:

@thisismissem @stux

I don't say it's a good thing but it kinda makes sense, they get the same amount of money, but don't have to deal with any user's problems and just offload them to others

Emelia 👸🏻

@gloopsies @stux then why offer products like Stripe Elements and Stripe Checkout? docs.stripe.com/payments/check

I think this is something else going on here.

stux⚡

@thisismissem @gloopsies I did had a few chargebacks but spread over many years and nothing exceptional so i was surprised it happened all of a sudden

josh

@stux@mstdn.social Wait, they WHAT??? Did they even give you a crappy -- nay ANY -- reason why?

Miguel Aguayo

@stux
Is there a problem with open collective?
(I donate there to support this instance)

stux⚡

@maalmike OC uses Stripe indeed, it should all still work but i may need to change some things on OC later on if Stripe doesn't want me

FallsMom 🟦 🌻

@stux

Agree. . . I don't like/use paypal. I use patreon but find it *confusing*

Donald Ham

@stux
I have been using Ko-fi.com to donate to you. Do they use Stripe?

stux⚡

@donaldham For now yes 😉 im gonna change that but it should all still work

Herr Irrtum!

@stux@mstdn.social

Running multiple of the largest European Mastodon instances makes you basically a communist threat to them... And communists, I think that's their reasoning, have no place in Stripe. Why am I considering this kind of reasoning?

"Who is Stripe owned by?

Stripe is a privately owned company. Notable investors in the company include its co-founders (brothers Patrick and John Collison), Sequoia Capital, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, American Express (NYSE: AXP), and Visa (NYSE: V)."

https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/how-to-invest-in-stripe/ (attention: cooky+ad hell, use a an ad-blocker!, it's at the bottom).

Good luck!

@stux@mstdn.social

Running multiple of the largest European Mastodon instances makes you basically a communist threat to them... And communists, I think that's their reasoning, have no place in Stripe. Why am I considering this kind of reasoning?

"Who is Stripe owned by?

Stripe is a privately owned company. Notable investors in the company include its co-founders (brothers Patrick and John Collison), Sequoia Capital, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, American Express (NYSE:...

Chad

@stux

They hit me, about six months ago. Careful with Paypal. They share the same screening efforts, Paypal will pull next.

Be prepared to ditch these altogether, and move towards more independent efforts. It's the only way to stay afloat. Embrace, don't try to fight too much. Waste of time.

feld
@chadisfaction @stux Paypal is in a much different class than Stripe, so I think it's probably less likely in 2024

Paypal used to have a lot of issues with scams and fraud, but they poured billions into fixing that. While they did this, the rest of their experience suffered.

Stripe came in and got popular being so much easier to work with than Paypal. But now Stripe is going through the same pains...

Someone like OpenPayments will now be coming in to take over where Stripe is failing, and in a couple years they'll have the same problem

https://www.openpayments.io
@chadisfaction @stux Paypal is in a much different class than Stripe, so I think it's probably less likely in 2024

Paypal used to have a lot of issues with scams and fraud, but they poured billions into fixing that. While they did this, the rest of their experience suffered.
stux⚡

ko-fi.com/mstdn can also be used again ❤️

I'm so sorry for all these issues, I'm trying but it's a little out of my hand

Walter Burns

@stux I'm sorry these issues are happening to you.

I see that you're stressed. Take a breather. Resolve one issue at a time. Don't let this rile you up irrationally.

Walter Burns

@stux Hope the issues are resolved before the week ends.

stux⚡

@walterburns Thank you ❤️

Yeah I won't, currently I can't do anything so I'm focusing on my iOS game dev! Tomorrow I'm gonna call them and see

Walter Burns

@stux Good.

Oh fun! Which game is that? Didn't know you did that.

Donald Ham

@stux
Just sent 10 Euro on Ko-fi as a test/regular contribution.

stux⚡

@donaldham Got it! Thank you Donald ❤️ I've reconfigured KoFi to use PP instead

Angie 🇵🇸🇺🇦

@stux "You allow people a place to talk about Gazans like they're actual human beings, of course you're a threat."

Sam Whited

@stux I don't know what's been going on, but they've been doing this a lot lately. They've done it to me 3 times so far I think recently (each time I appealed, they re-opened my account, then it happened again a few days later). I looked up their FAQ and specifically sent them a link to the article showing that my use case was okay. Unfortunately it seems like "fundraising" in general is forbidden, but every fundraising site uses them and most don't have an alternative :S

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