There's a focus on making games here for obvious reasons, and more generally social networking is the big thing (which is possibly justified). But what do you think alt-tech's biggest priority should be at this point?
A couple possibilities:
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A genuinely free-speech social network. Not "we'll cave to the big corps as soon as they threaten to delist us" but a network that doesn't count on being listed in the App Store, is willing to distribute its own ipas/apks, etc.
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An alt-tech search engine that doesn't just get its results from the big corp search engines and only indexes non-woke sites. For example, pulling results only from Infogalactic, and not Wikipedia.
And then anime tiddies.
But yes, money.
Frankly I think in order for alt-tech to really secure its future we need to go full keiretsu mode and open an actual, honest-to-FDIC bank. It's the only way to force the payment clearing systems to not fuck with us. The credit card companies can be dicks, but the ECP/ACH systems have stricter rules about what can and can't be denied.
It's not like VISA or MasterCard where they can say they just won't do business with certain companies. When something goes into ACH, if it's a legitimate transaction and the money exists then they HAVE TO FUCKING PROCESS IT or they're fucking with the Dept of Commerce and the Federal Reserve.
Same group, different department.
It's like this:
Say I want to make a donation to Styxhexenhammer. If I use my credit card, Visa can say "it's our money, and we don't want our money going to Styx, so we're denying this transaction." Technically, they are allowed to do that.
If however I write a check to Styx, my bank cannot say "we don't like styx, so we're not going to clear this check". They're not allowed to refuse to clear a legitimate transaction authorized by me. Because legally, it's not their money. It's mine.
There are electronic mechanisms in place to do this stuff, people just use credit cards instead because they're easier.
But if we set up a paypal like system, but have it registered as an actual bank, then it has access to all those same transaction clearing systems and is insulated from any corporate bullshit.
You don't hear about any drama from the part of the Federal Reserve that does transaction clearing. Because it's an uncontroversial, bland, boring thing that just works.
Offhand I'm not sure about the rules of credit unions doing business across state lines, although there are solutions to that in corporation law.
To our credit, I suspect a credit union that markets directly to conservatives would be financially better off than your typical credit union.
I am part of a national level credit union.
The credit card systems should be replaced with an open interbank system.