• spaceracoon@lemmy.zip
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    Website/social starts, queers, LGTBQ+ and furries go there to find refuge from the mainstream oppression. There is fun, art, and porn. Sex drives traffic. Website becomes important. Company see the cash, they want investors or sell but big investors in the west are Christo fascist so no sex anymore.

    Repeat 🥲

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    19 hours ago

    I fund a ton of queer yaoi/yuri visual novels. This sucks. I hate the trend of absolute puritanical governing (which is just used to attack queer people).

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      If it helps it’s the payment processors doing this, not Kickstarter themselves. They are somewhat being held to ransom like a few of the other places that stopped allowing sexual nsfw content. Murder and mayhem, as usual, totally okay. Boobies bad. Death and hate totally fine…

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        32 minutes ago

        This is what Bitcoin was invented for. No government or bank can control it.

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      6 hours ago

      Just reply to all Craiglist Missed connections. Half won’t stay but 6+ is still a good time. Provided you don’t get nauseated by random smells.

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      Lots of nsfw sites like manyvids use bitcoin or others. It works just fine once you get used to it. No government or bank controls bitcoin, making it and sites using it immune to shutdown like this. They’d have to take down the actual site and even that pirate bay and others have shown is futile.

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      18 hours ago

      America has a monopoly on payment processing worldwide. EU needs to step up their game

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      20 hours ago

      Hahahahaha no

      Even when you start dogging into non America processors they still use the visa/mastercard network more often then naught to some degree and are held to their rules.

      You have to stick to very small processors that rarerly ever actually do anything across their own countries borders. Making them literally less then useless for a company like kickstarter.

      Large scale international processors basically don’t exist in a fashion thats useable.

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    This dystopia is sofa king boring.

    For those who haven’t read it: it’s Stripe, their payment processor, behind this. Kickstarter isn’t doing a Tumblr; they’re just handling it like amateurs, rather than just yeeting those puritanical morons.

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      19 hours ago

      Wasn’t Tumblr just reacting to Apple pulling them for underage content and just blanket banning all adult content instead of actually dealing with the problem?

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    Its such a good thing to see a pretty normal part of the human experience get ripped out of every place humans gather because it makes the money holders uncomfortable.

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    I hope some NSFW only kickstarter clone comes from this, it’d be both really fun to browse and I think it’d make some cool, fun, weird etc. products real.

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    the puritanical mania we’ve arrived at in 2026 was not in my bingo cards. sigh.

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      Probably a bit of both. Usually it’s the payment processors being lobbied by vocal “Christian” groups.

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      If you never know the motivation for something a company does, just know that the answer is always money.

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      It sounds like it’s just insertable toys, so it might be a liability thing if they’re afraid people are selling unsafe toys? Who knows. That’s a really weird distinction and definitely one that payment processors don’t make.

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        Does Kickstarter have liability in general for Kickstarted projects? I’d kind of assume that that’s on the specific project. I can’t imagine that Kickstarter is in any kind of position to really do a domain-specific evaluation of whether a given project is in line with local regulations.

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          IIRC, no, they don’t. They put the onus of proving the project is legit on the project maker and on the backers to be vigilant not falling for too good to be true projects.

          Over the years kickstarter has become just another big marketing platform for big brands (for their niche) and pushing out smaller projects.

          As a former serial backer, over the years I “only” have backed 40 or so (I don’t remember the exact number and don’t want to check now) and only 2 that failed to deliver. One, in hindsight, is blatantly a scam and kickstarter didn’t do anything about it. The other one that didn’t deliver is just mismanagement. At least it looked like it. Could still be a scam.

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          I really have no idea, and this would probably be jurisdiction dependent anyway.

          They do allow things like food, which it seems would come with more liability anyway, if they can be held liable for kickstarted things.

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        Why would Kickstarter be liable for someone else project.

        That’s like trying to sue UberEats for delivering food that gave you food poisoning.

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          You can’t really legalese yourself out of being liable if it can be shown you knew of an issue and did nothing to prevent it.

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    They probably think the US prohibition didn’t work because they just didn’t try hard enough

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      Prohibition worked. It had the annoying unintended consequence is some people ignored it and became criminals, but alcohol consumption clearly dropped when it was in effect.

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        You are correct, technically Prohibition worked, but its one of those “at what cost” scenarios. The absolute explosion in organized crime that came with it along with the associated cost of enforcement for fighting alcohol consumption makes the argument for a different approach.

        I won’t downvote you because what you said is true, its just that the negative association of the explosion of crime and government overreach into peoples’ lives gives people a kneejerk reaction to the statement.

        People often don’t think of WHY the prohibition movement was so popular that it could get an amendment passed, but alcoholism at that time was so much more severe than we can even fathom today. Their approach was wrong, but they had legitimate grievance.

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        And yet the illegal alcohol market boomed and it gave massive rise to organized crime and government corruption to allow it. It doesn’t “work” in any practical sense, it just concentrates the problem and makes it even harder to control.