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
tbf not sure if anything the EU makes can compete with it
Adyen? That’s a Dutch payment service provider
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.
Maybe someday GnuTaler, which is a direct bank payment system with full transparency. I think only one bank in Sweden (I think) is testing it ATM.
What is Stripe?
Payment provider. Stripe.com
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.
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.