This was initially demoed at FediCon 2025, but CrowdBucks is an open source, self-hostable fundraising system that allows people to financially support one another. You use your existing Fediverse account to hold a fundraiser, and can also donate to other people’s fundraisers as well. The form factor is kind of similar to Kickstarter or Patreon.
tl;dr: it uses stripe
Support for other providers is coming. Bandwagon is in a similar situation. The overall goal is to support a multitude of options, so that no one payment solution has a monopoly.
What is Stripe?
The company that’s involved with the payment disputes between Steam, MasterCard, banks, 18+ games and Collective Shout. Stripe is the one handling payments between Steam and MasterCard. It got blamed, blamed others in return and suddenly is known to a lot more people but not in a good way.
Payment provider. Stripe.com
tbf not sure if anything the EU makes can compete with it
Klarna is Swedish.
Nasty company though.
Klarna is like a payment layer on top of a payment processor, different things, even they recommend stripe:
https://docs.klarna.com/
Ah. My mistake then.
They are ubiquitous here, even when paying by card it goes through klarna.
Adyen? That’s a Dutch payment service provider