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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by raxxorrax »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #877
skrtskrt wrote: post #94

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

I read that sex-workers have lost their livelihood during the pandemic due to lockdowns and have become more vulnerable. Then I read the interview of Aella, A OnlyFans creator making 5-figures on IndieHackers[1]. I always felt porn was an exploitative business so was never into it, But I gained respect for OnlyFans as a platform because it enabled people to move from dangerous, risky work to relatively safe work. As…

Few artists want to be associated with that by now. If people present their onlyfans, customers expect nude pictures.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by jazzyjackson »

Uberphallus wrote: post #899
jazzyjackson wrote: post #879

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a Markov chain or something?

I thought the same, but it makes sense, if you go past the strange grammar structure and pompous words. My liberal translation: It's crazy that companies try to scale workforce like you scale compute units in the cloud. This wouldn't be the same if the workforce organized itself in unions, both against the platform and the moral police. If arguing that everyone on these platforms would be judged in front of everyone…

Wow thanks, I see what you mean. I think “public opprobrium” threw me off as a really unnatural thing to write, run on sentences aside

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

bladelessninja2 wrote: post #897
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #877

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read that sex-workers have lost their livelihood during the pandemic due to lockdowns and have become more vulnerable. Then I read the interview of Aella, A OnlyFans creator making 5-figures on IndieHackers[1]. I always felt porn was an exploitative business so was never into it, But I gained respect for OnlyFans as a platform because it enabled people to move from dangerous, risky work to relatively safe work. As…

> I gained respect for OnlyFans as a platform because it enabled people to move from dangerous, risky work to relatively safe work What about not getting into this and, thus, not being exposed to any risks? Sex-work nowadays is the matter of choice, it's not how it used to be in pre-internet era.

> What about not getting into this and, thus, not being exposed to any risks? Sex-work nowadays is the matter of choice, it's not how it used to be in pre-internet era.

Unfortunately it's often the only choice, If not we wouldn't be still finding women from poor countries dead in locked shipping containers in the harbors of developed countries.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by Cullinet »

ryantgtg wrote: post #713
wonderwonder wrote: post #533

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I honestly did not know they did anything besides porn. They have a really bad marketing department as I bet most people only know of them via porn (or I run in a slightly more degenerate circle).

It’s a recent push toward more mainstream performers. For example, there are pro surfers who are popular youtube vloggers (e.g. Nathan Florence) who recently started onlyfans channels. Nathan’s is a fitness training channel. It threw a lot of people off guard. And I strongly suspect that onlyfans paid him to start this channel. https://onlyfans.com/nathanflorence https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/onlyfans-pivot-porn…

If PCCCI conformity and compliance can be done programmatically and the interfaces and tAPIs standardised, a uniform hardened virtual machine created commercially with multiple levels of support for complimentary up and down stream support / integration / development / consulting / services brokerage, isn't it possible to finance a very significant development in Linux security and privacy when some kind of economic opportunity like this comes along with just the right characteristics to attract sufficient attention and commitment?

Basically only just a image problem is keeping this industry from a huge amount of important infrastructure development.

Imagine that YouTube was to shut down next week.

how many startups do you think would be created to address that market?

How many uniquely innovative new ideas for attracting the former YT user base would be executed with lasting qualities that are beneficial to society and video producers and professional consumers?

Homogeneity is the developer crown / throne.

But homogeneous behemoth oligarchies prevent any serious development in any way capable of being subsumed by the oligarchs at marginal and not meaningful cost?

Can't any number, if a multitude is necessary then how about a multitude of global entrepreneurs less worried about their CVs appearance and capable of the work that we do for very much less for the same lifestyle, can't we find enough cut away / vanity intermediaries to take any public rap to enable the creation of a host of new companies in this sector all wanting to hire American talent and use American IP to develop the most advanced features for video sites serving this user base right now and just step in?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

raxxorrax wrote: post #901
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #877

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read that sex-workers have lost their livelihood during the pandemic due to lockdowns and have become more vulnerable. Then I read the interview of Aella, A OnlyFans creator making 5-figures on IndieHackers[1]. I always felt porn was an exploitative business so was never into it, But I gained respect for OnlyFans as a platform because it enabled people to move from dangerous, risky work to relatively safe work. As…

Few artists want to be associated with that by now. If people present their onlyfans, customers expect nude pictures.

Article states that OnlyFans took this decision because big names from music and other industries are joining them.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by eru »

smokey_circles wrote: post #898
bamboozled wrote: post #809

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This is pretty stupid though, to throw away the business you have for the business you might have, there is heaps of porn on Twitter, looking at it is optional. Why can't it just co-exist with other "acceptable" content ? I would imagine it's very trivial to have a "Show me explicit content" setting. Edit: Side note, I don’t know why porn is so shameful, especially concerning adults posting high quality content, it’s…

>Side note, I don’t know why porn is so shameful Is it really such a mystery? Mostly every religion prohibits sexual freedom and most every government has deeply religious members in the legislature. There is no separation of the church's morals and political ones. Which means yes, I'm suggesting a ban on religion in the political space. I don't mean you can't be a politician if you're religious, I mean you should be…

Are you perhaps projecting a US experience?

In the UK, the head of state is also the head of the state church, and things aren't too bad.

In Germany, the government is currently run by the Christian Democratic Union (and a few allies), and things seem reasonably secular.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by thaumasiotes »

ramesh31 wrote: post #123
skrtskrt wrote: post #94

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

It's not like they have a choice. Their business was only ever viable at the behest of their payment provider. The reason no one has made an OnlyFans before, and the reason why people have tried and failed, entirely comes down to this.

> The reason no one has made an OnlyFans before

Patreon?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by iheartlife »

bamboozled wrote: post #809
ryantgtg wrote: post #713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a recent push toward more mainstream performers. For example, there are pro surfers who are popular youtube vloggers (e.g. Nathan Florence) who recently started onlyfans channels. Nathan’s is a fitness training channel. It threw a lot of people off guard. And I strongly suspect that onlyfans paid him to start this channel. https://onlyfans.com/nathanflorence https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/onlyfans-pivot-porn…

This is pretty stupid though, to throw away the business you have for the business you might have, there is heaps of porn on Twitter, looking at it is optional. Why can't it just co-exist with other "acceptable" content ? I would imagine it's very trivial to have a "Show me explicit content" setting. Edit: Side note, I don’t know why porn is so shameful, especially concerning adults posting high quality content, it’s…

AFAIK the reason why OnlyFans is getting rid of porn is because they didnt moderate properly, so there were cases of CSAM and more and they were on the brink of having their payment providers cancel on them like what happened to pornhub a few months ago
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