Yeah there’s this switcheroo tech companies do where they establish an initial value/user base on the adult content side of their platform but then try to pull the rug out from under it once they’ve hit critical mass and want access to more prudish investors’ money (see: OnlyFans’ aborted attempt to cull the hardcore content from their site).

Your posts are funny and informative. Hope you stick around.

SWers struggles against censorship, banking discrimination, and a whole slew of other issues have been the front line of digital repression for decades. Worth looking up the SESTA/FOSTA disaster. It's a key example of how efforts to supress sex work are usually just fancy social murder.

(We’re trying to warn y’all about banking discrimination and the dangers of facial recognition technology too but that’s a subject for another post. Just know that they always test their hateful tech tools on us first, then roll them out for the respectables and normals.)

I look forward to that post!

Oof. I have a bsky account I made a long time ago but I don't use it because the vibes over there are so rancid

Uhhh woah

Edit: This is not LibSky lol I’m just dumb

Reminder than the term "blue sky" comes from the Blue Sky with White Sun flag of nationalist China. The Bluesky CEO's mom fled the country during the Cultural Revolution because she supported the KMT lol

I do wonder if this would move users over, or if SW will just relent and return to twitter as it has a much larger userbase. ofc if you're advertising a service, you want the most people to see it and be able to pay for it. Blue Sky has had huge migration waves before, it's topped the google app store before; a few weeks go by and people slowly walk on back to twitter over time due to the more active user base with an endless supply of content to doomscroll. the thing that gets me is. mastodon already exists, and does have a large established userbase, with sex work instances open to signups. BS is trying to be a secondary niche where others already exist. BS is also owned by corperate interests, publicly traded, and has shown crypto leanings in the past. they'll do some unadvised things in the long run too to maximise profits, and SW are a very easy target when that happens

I hope it works out for online SW, an ex girlfriend of mine used to do it as a side hustle and it did a lot to pay her bills. especially in worsening economic times like this, SW being forceably deplatformed is going to hurt working class people who need to pay every increasing bills

Y’all may or may not realize it but sex workers tend to be at the forefront of new tech trends and innovations.

You can take my Betamax tapes and HD DVDs from my cold dead hands.

I don't fault you for going where you gotta go, but I imagine that as bsky gains popularity, it will gain advertising, and it will start deplatforming accounts like yours. It is corporate social media after all. I'm not sure what a good alternative is though. In my early days on Mastodon, there was Switter, which seems like the right kind of model, but it collapsed for reasons I can't recall.

I thought you were talking about a new BlueSky instance called LibSky. I'm sure there'll be one (or there's already one)

Do you still need an invite to join libsky?

One of my most libbed up opinions: Twitter under Jack Dorsey was... probably about as "good" as one can expect from a privately run, "for profit" (on paper anyway. I don't think Twitter's model is ever profitable in and of itself) "general use" social media app and company.

Good is relative obviously compared to.... Twitter now with daily incantations from Mein Kampf being boosted to millions of viewers. Same goes for Facebook, Instagram (also "Meta" owned), YouTube comments, 99% of Reddit. If anyone or any company ever tries to actually abide by "both sides have extremes" it seemed to be Dorsey's goal. I don't agree with the goal for ideological and I'd argue moral reasons, but, he did ban the outright and obvious Nazis. The bar is in Hell here, but, libbed up opinion, "he was the lesser of the evils!" We finally found who should've been president...

And by general use I mean seeks to bring in a broad audience and isn't explicitly going to be favoring certain ideological viewpoints. Of course it still favored liberalism as that's the default "western" stance, to defend western governments and such, but again,... an attempt was made. It was imperfect, even "bad" most of the time, but the bar is deep inside Satan's rectum on this topic.

If we had tribunals for the creators, major investors and owners of these rancid platforms, and I were a judge (which obviously I would be 👀), I'd argue for leniency for Dorsey. Let him be a humble miner for the rest of his life. Musk, Zuckerberg, that Tom guy from MySpace... well... I am censored on their fates

This is the part where I've set myself up to have someone come in and inform me that Dorsey is a suspected serial murderer or some shit

i jumped ship the second Melon Ball took over. sucks too because i had just started talking to some local leftists. one is a SW and they moved back nearby recently

might have to see if they moved over and check it out again.

Hell, half my friends for the past ten years have been adult artists of one sort or another. You don’t get into indie art of the sort I like without getting to know sex workers - and getting to understand why they’re important.

Long live the weird and wild.