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Bandcamp switching to Stripe is almost purely POSITIVE for artists, Stripe are NOT evil, they are forced to follow Visa and MasterCard censorship, as is PayPal; Stripe historically has been vastly better for small businesses and artists than PayPal; do NOT tell them to cancel this!
It would be better if they offered both Stripe and PayPal as an option however! If you're going to bully Bandcamp, please tell them to allow both rather than forcing everyone to use Stripe, choice of payment provider is never a bad thing when your artist livelihood is at stake
we'll walk back the “purely positive” thing, Stripe have many good points but if Bandcamp forces everyone to switch from PayPal to Stripe, it's swapping a devil everyone knows for a devil most Bandcamp users don't, and it will suck for certain users, so please ask for CHOICE