Shopify not being willing to fight battles to keep supporting stores that other people don't want them to isn't exactly the same as them choosing what you can sell... Though I guess I see some similarity.

> I’m trying to get him to switch to an open-source alternative.

Well if you want an argument in favor between terrible support, glitchy software, huge price hikes, and so on we aren't particularly happy with Shopify either...

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paulddraper an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Shopify not being willing to fight battles to keep supporting stores that other people don't want them to isn't exactly the same as them choosing what you can sell...

It is the same.

Or rather the latter is inclusive of the former.

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theturtletalks an hour ago | parent [-]

Exactly, Shopify as a business can do what it wants. But I will never let software manage my business that I don’t have control over.

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jeromegv 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Even if you have your own stack for software, you still need someone for payments, and that's where it hits you. Shopify was letting Kanye sells nazi merch, they don't give a crap for most things unless it's trademark issues.

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hamdingers 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> I will never let software manage my business that I don’t have control over.

I can't imagine this is actually possible in 2026 unless your business is a something like a cash-only lemonade stand.

	▲	theturtletalks 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Opensource is the only way to free sellers from propeitary SaaS and marketplace middlemen. I’m actually working on building an opensource Shopify for every vertical from restaurants to gyms to hotels.

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daveguy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So... They're not choosing what you can sell. They're letting arbitrary third parties choose what you can sell? That seems worse.

	▲	embedding-shape 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed it's worse, and apparently Valve/Steam is the only one who seems to care about something resembling freedom to sell legal things, even if we might subjectively disagree.