Have any of the rest of you noticed people here on Mastodon who are visibly DAMAGED by their years of posting on abusive #pornocalypse platforms? As in, they have flinches and tells from years of dodging capricious moderation?
I just saw someone who posts found BDSM pics without provenance or alt-text. They don't know anything about the img context. But they still put "Consensual bondage. Not an actual depiction of any violent or illegal behavior" on each toot!
I was just going back through my pornocalypse posts and was reminded of the news last Christmas that Disney had Bowdlerized "gay apparel" out of the popular holiday carol. Didn't get any notice or comment on my blog at the time, and I can't remember if I posted it here, although surely I must have. Anyway, yeah:
My feed's been full of pornocalypse lately, so I went back to look at Matt Mullenweg's "Why "Go Nuts, Show Nuts" Doesn’t Work in 2022" that he wrote to explain why the ballyhooed Tumblr porn "unbanning" was a search-invisibility nothingburger.
Well, guess what you see if you follow that link now? "You'll need to be on Tumblr to see this...."
Fuck that. It needs to be on the open web for research and commentary:
Twitch's move to further restrict sexual content, including the prohibition of "implied nudity" - a phrase that brings to mind Tumblr's equally vapid and vague "female presenting nipple" ban - begs the question: Is Twitch risking its unique creative edge in a bid to sanitise its platform?
On three different occasions today I followed links to content that used to be on the open web, only to be confronted by paywalls or "free" login-only access that is too expensive in terms of privacy, security, cognitive burden, or frustration.
There's very little open web left and a lot of that (including my stuff) is effectively invisible in the enshittified search engines and unwelcome in the pornocalypsed social media silos.
She's not wrong. You can't build a small independent business without social media and because of the #pornocalypse, nothing you do in the adult space or even vaguely tangential to it is welcome on social media. It's a fatal conundrum.